Posts Tagged with ‘bloggers’

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 [...]

Today citizens of Kazakhstan and even the adjacent Kirgizia for some reason have not managed to access LiveJournal blogging platform entirely. Since both countries are still very much influenced by Russia and Russian culture, LiveJournal is also a very popular blogging platform there same as it is here in Russia so this is an important event for bloggers from the two countries.
There have not been any official comments on the situation yet but users of various ISPs in Kazakhstan report [...]

On Friday Robert Scoble published a list of 160+ people worth subscribing to on FriendFeed for everyone interested in technology news. Quite understandably, this list have become one of the most discussed things over the weekend with people either criticizing Robert for this list or thanking him for compiling it.
I think that I have the most obvious reason to be happy about making the list as according to Robert’s comments there are only two great tech blogs - Ars Technica [...]

First of all, let me state some things clear right in the very beginning: I believe SixApart develops one of the best blogging platforms on Earth and I also think reviving Blogs.com as a blogs directory less than a month ago was not a bad idea - the site looks pretty good and I definitely see people spending some time to discover new blogs suggested by Blogs.com editors here. And now I will have to say that I object to [...]

No doubt, Google is the largest internet giant that determines exactly how the market operates and how other players behave online. What’s more, acquisition by Google is certainly one of the most appealing exit strategies for many of the newly-launched startups - this exit strategy is often the most financially rewarding one and it offers a huge opportunity for further growth of a product with the help of Google’s engineers, servers and money. And even though many startups have been [...]