Posts Tagged with ‘blogosphere’

Earlier this week we spoke about an interesting study conducted by Jupiter Research for BuzzLogic social media analysis company and blog advertising network. The most important thing the study focused on was the influence that blogs enjoy over their audiences in making people trust the ads they display on the blogs and trust their words when considering purchase of a product. And of course this was of particular interest to the blogosphere as we felt kind of flattered when we [...]

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 [...]

I often find it quite funny how technology bloggers manage to make absolutely any event or piee of news tech-related if we know that it will be popular among internet users on any given day. So even if we are supposed to write about web services only, for example, we can never refrain from an occasional iPhone or Large Hadron Collider post when we know that these topics will be particularly hot during the day. And hot here means that [...]

A few hours ago Google updated Google Blog Search functionality with some very profound changes. When up until now the Blog Search represented mainly a usual search page dedicated to searching within a particular group of websites (blogs in this case), today the homepage of the blog search by Google is completely revamped to showcase the most popular topics right upon arrival.
The homepage now shows the most discussed stories in all topics (a total of 11 categories are present). Stories [...]

The world’s largest particles collider (Large Hadron Collider) has successfully completed its first major test by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva by firing a beam of protons around the 27-kilometer underground tunnel. This experiment is supposed to increase our knowledge of the makeup of the universe. Some skeptics predicted (and still continue to predict) that this experiment may have deplorable consequences for the mankind and the earth because it could cause formation of micro black holes that [...]

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 [...]

Back in my university years when I studied philosophy I once wrote a paper on crowd thinking and behavior. That experience taught me that crowd is a very dangerous phenomenon because a crowd rarely can be reasonable and people can be easily manipulated to follow guidance from any leader clever enough to issue orders a crowd will understand.
Unfortunately now that I watch web 2.0 as an industry I often notice classical examples of crowd thinking here where people who are [...]

Toluu, the RSS sharing and suggestion service, has found some interesting trends when exploring their subscription data.  Caleb Elston, Toluu’s founder, tells me that of the 300,000+ feeds in Toluu more than 50% only have only 1 subscriber.  And that the number 1 feed has 10x the number of subscribers as the 100th most popular feed.
Caleb says this tells him “that the mega blogs are not where it is at, they may have a [...]

Today NewsCred opens to the public another news aggregation service that is based on the idea of credibility of sources that you receive the news from. NewsCred positions itself as a digital newspaper collecting content from various mainstream and new media outlets.
Any visitor can consume news here even without registration but if you want to add some credibility to your favorite news sources you will have to create an account here. And this credibility that is based on votes from [...]