Posts Tagged with ‘bloggers’

There’s a very funny story today that seems to prove to me that lack of fact checking and attention to details should not be discussed as a fault only bloggers should be accused of as it looks like even huge and reputable media organizations like CNN sometimes make mistakes that seem to be absolutely inappropriate - especially for them.
Yesterday some of you may have heard a story about alleged gunfire from South Ossetia directed at the motorcade carrying the Presidents [...]

We have already heard voices in the blogosphere that media people (both bloggers and reporters from traditional media outlets) should be cautious about how we cover various economic events in these hard times as we are partly responsible for what our readers will think and how they will behave. And since it is hardly arguable that the financial crisis is partly due to panic and irrational behavior of traders and investors, this issue definitely deserves our attention and consideration from [...]

Today at the Web2Asia conference in Guangzhou launch of a very promising new project is announced. The project is BloggerInsight and it is intended to facilitate entering Chinese market for international companies utilizing the power and intelligence Chinese bloggers possess. What is important, bloggers in the country are offered an interesting new opportunity to monetize their voices by providing their opinions on the subjects of expertise to BloggerInsight.
It is not unusual to hear that for many international companies it is [...]

I may be paranoid or something but I have a feeling that there is something very suspicious going on in the spam empire. You may remember that this week we have discussed news about a hosting company that powered numerous spammers and scammers disconnected from the internet. What’s more, we were told that we should see the number of junk letters in our email inboxes dropped by at least two thirds as a result - at least until the spammers [...]

The never-ending love of the blogosphere to the issue of linking to other blogs and failing to link when you really-really should is just plain amazing to me - we seem to never get tired of the entire meme and there is always some blogger or reporter who forgets to link back to the source where a link is due - and it starts all over again. Or a blogger does not link back intentionally - and it gets even [...]

It is definitely good to see internet companies trying to understand their users better - if only to know how to attract even more users and hopefully learn how to monetize all of them eventually. Recently Meebo has taken a shot at understanding the users of its web-based multi-protocol instant messaging solution.
While there are quite a lot of various competitors in the market, Meebo is definitely a leader and the response rate from users was definitely a pretty good one [...]

I have already said here on Profy before that unlike many bloggers I do appreciate various requests to review a website that land in my inbox. The reason in my case is quite simple - I don’t really love hunting for information and news and when something is pushed to my eyes, I will appreciate someone taking the time to send this something my way and will at least take a look.
I have spoken once about the basic rules of [...]

There’s an interesting study released today by JupiterResearch that the research company conducted for BuzzLogic to find out the influence and importance of blogs nowadays. You may remember BuzzLogic as a recently launched advertising network selling ads on blogs exclusively. The primary business of BuzzLogic is in identifying where influence is in various conversations online and offering their customers the solutions to target the audience of the influential online publications with their branding messages or advertising.
The study included interrogation of [...]

Last week I had a chance to speak with the team at Artiklz, a San Francisco based startup that is officially debuting in public alpha tomorrow at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. The startup works in the blog commenting field and the first thing I thought was that the field was over-saturated already and did not need yet another player to add to Disqus, recently acquired by Automattic IntenseDebate or JS-Kit.
To my surprise, this has been a rare case [...]