Posts Tagged with ‘blogs’

Yesterday the blogosphere was abuzz over yet another acquisition in the blogging world with one-man blog Bankaholic purchased by BankRate financial information website and service provider for reported $15 million (with $2.5 million to be paid over the next 12 months if certain conditions are met).
The irony of the announcement is that the overall financial climate in the country does not seem to be favorable for any acquisitions at all - especially those that don’t seem to be backed by [...]

It looks like AOL is determined to build a very large network of programming websites serving niche content to all types of audiences. Only last week we covered AOL launching two new websites - one of them focused on female interests and the second one about pop culture. At the same time the company reported significant growth of all of its programming websites and even claimed that Asylum, it’s site targeted at male audience, is the top one in its [...]

Today AOL is announcing launch of two more niche websites - Lemondrop for women and PopEater about pop culture. Since last year AOL launched over 20 websites focused on various topics popular among internet users and these two is the latest addition to solidify the success AOL is reporting for the programming sites.
The two websites launched today really sound like that should have been launched much earlier since they are focused on the topics that generally receive significant attention from [...]

You thought for people to call you an A-lister you will have to work hard and build your blog into a noticeable name? Honestly, I used to share your opinion but that has changed today when I found out that to become an A-lister you can simply join a new blog network called exactly “A-List Bloggers Network”. That’s it, no more hard work involved, really.
The people behind the network mention that it “debuted last week at ASAE with a dozen [...]

It seems that recently the problem with embargoes and breaking them has grown acute again. I for one have seen at least 3 embargoes broken this week only and I can imagine there are others where I am simply unaware of the embargo time.
One of the latest examples made me particularly angry when I myself was writing the post to go live at the embargo time and saw the story on one of the major blogs 2 hours before the [...]

ProProfs is a provider of web-based learning tools, including flashcards, blogs, forums and social bookmarking. Today ProProfs is introducing a completely revamped tool for quizzes creation - Quiz School - with a totally new interface and a great number of new features.
The company claims that it is bringing quizzes to a new level where they become social, fun and easy both to create and take. The newly introduced interface is rather similar to that of YouTube (and thus familiar to [...]

There’s a very interesting post on CenterNetworks today full of righteous indignation against Alexa and the way it has recently lowered rankings for numerous blogs. In fact, I have noticed that myself for Profy but decided not to bother because we have never relied on Alexa to measure our traffic.
The assumption is that Alexa changed the algorithm not to take traffic coming from social media and social news sites into account - and Andy Beard has a number of interesting [...]

We do seem to be talking too much about women in technology lately but given the latest Playboy poll and the BlogHer conference I think it is not surprising. So ReadWriteWeb came up with a list of favorite female bloggers compiled by its bloggers. Obviously, it was a pleasure to have two Profy bloggers included in the list. After that Orli Yakuel (who was obviously on the list as well) created a slideshow of 50 blogs written [...]

And with that title, I may actually end up struck by lightning.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Gawker properties. I find most of the blogs in the network witty and a welcome respite from the constant regurgitation of the same old news items that I end up reading most of the day, but at the same time, as with the CES incident, I do think that they often cross the line.
When it comes down to a slapfest between Nick [...]