Posts Tagged with ‘blogging’

So you want to be a rock star, buy too big a house, bribe a plastic blonde with some sparkly carbon to live in the house that’s too big, and maybe even order one of those A380’s after a few international tours? Don’t send Sony BMG a demo disc, then.
The talent recruiters at the media megalith have been looking to blogs and scouring MySpace for bands willing to sell their souls for many months now, and the company has stated [...]

Echoes of Web 1.0 still haunt Web 2.0. Get rich quick with little or no effort by “Moguling”. 
Have you thought of being a Mogul yet? Robin Smith started a new blog about a month ago and it is already ranked high at Google. Smith used a new technique called “Moguling”, a trademarked term of DotVentures. The method revolves around using blogging as an Internet marketing tool.
The intent of Muguling is to spike the value of domain names for profit [...]

Are you frustrated, sick and tired of being sick and tired? VentBox has come up with a therapeutic place for you! VentBox released the news that their new site had competed its beta testing and was ready for human consumption. According to the release: “The voices of average Internet users got a little bit louder today, as community complaint site VentBox.com released its site to the public.”
VentBox is powered by a unique blend of technology aimed at two vital aspects [...]

I am totally sure that you know Sphere is an excellent blog search and discovery engine: it only provides relevant results that can be further sorted by date and by relevance. Their featured blogs tool enables you to discover new good blogs easily.
But the reason for me writing this post is that we are happy to finally have the Spere It contextual widget for Profy - you can start using it right away to engage in a larger blogosphere [...]

Web 2.0 is an action platform and should direct technology towards our most pressing needs! There's serious, and then there is SERIOUS!
My job here at Profy is to report on significant (and sometimes insignificant) Web 2.0 technology. Our goal - my goal, is to be honest, fair and impartial about the subjects we write about so that you guys will get an honest “heads up” on happenings in our little world. Sometimes we all need to focus our resources [...]

Another interesting finding from Demo-07 is Blogwerx Sentinel - the solution for bloggers to track websites stealing their content.
The application has not got much media coverage yet but it was nice to see it on Scobleizer. I find this new application useful (until actually tested, at least) - but not absolutely necessary.
So how does it work? In 3 rather simple steps: it scans your content and the net to find duplicates; it informs you of content reproduction; it provides you [...]

Multinational media holding Naspers Limited has acquired 30% stake in Port.ru for $ 165 million. Port.ru owns one of the largest Internet portals - Mail.ru. Mail.ru is definitely the best-known and one of the most visited Russian portals: it receives 3 million unique visitors daily and about two billion monthly page views. Mail.ru is also ranked as the number one e-mail provider for Russian-speaking community.
You could definitely tell that email has almost nothing to do with Web 2.0. Sure, I can [...]

OdiogoTM has launched a new web 2.0 application that allows users to create audio media from text content. With this new application bloggers can create and podcast textual blog entries to be viewed on MP3 players, PDA's, cell phones and laptops. The blog entries are converted into high fidelity voice files that can be loaded to devices anywhere.
Odiogo extracts textual content from blog posts or articles so that it can be listened to “on the go.” Odiogo essentially transforms [...]

ShoutPost has just launched a free, innovative site for creating blogs. Following the new trend for advertising free blog sites, the creators of tBlog.com have built a site where users can be heard without the "noise" of advertising.  According to their press release, ShoutPost is the first free blog syndication host with no advertising.
Unlike sites such as MySpace.com, Friendster.com and blog.com ShoutPost reserves user spaces for user content only. The new site also provides a unique syndication system that enables bloggers to create their [...]