Posts Tagged with ‘news’

LiveJournal has been around since 1999 as a “standby” of blogging and social networking. Yesterday Six Apart (which owns LJ) agreed to sell the company to SUP a Russian online media company. The complete terms of the deal are not available but SUP will evidently create an American management company to manage the [...]

Do you recall the blogosphere, circa 2000-2006?
It was something of an experimental landscape, was it not? Millions of personal blogs were created within that time frame. Thousands of “professional” ones, too. All of them unique to some degree, though some of course have been undeniable copycats of the successful, financially-lucrative few.
Okay, a lot of [...]

Earlier this week we touched a bit upon the topic of Amazon?s debut of its own e-book reader, dubbed Kindle, focusing a good deal on the general stuff concerning the item. You know, how the device would presumably do in an era still mostly averse to electronic books; whether it?s selling point of ?free? wireless [...]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about Powerset and their recent restructuring. Today, I talked with Barney Pell one of the founders and former CEO of the startup. As I have said before many times, Barney is an extraordinary person with a brilliant vision and Powerset has been one of my favorite [...]

Magnify.net is releasing a private beta aspect that allows anyone to produce their own Vlog. Magnify's latest addition to their video curation platform lets anyone with a video camera produce, edit and add elements to their own Vlog page. Podcamp co-founder Chris Brogan will be hosting a daily video blog called “Attention Upgrade” to illustrate [...]

I am really pleased to announce today that we are now able to provide our readers with a mobile reading experience. I know for sure that a good number of our readers are heavy mobile users and we have been approached a number of times by some of the readers asking to launch some mobile-friendly [...]

Freerice.com - an online fundraising effort by John Breen, has really taken off and has obtained enough rice to feed 50,000 people. The Internet fundraiser uses a food linked word game tied to ad revenue raise money for the United Nations World Food Programme.
Visitors to Freerice play a multiple choice game that generates 10 [...]

Recognize the name Spotplex? If not, no worries. It’s a title given to a startup that’s positioned as a news tracker of sorts specifically aimed at ranking new posts, pages, developments, etc., in the world of blogs. Simple enough, right? Okay.
So, you’re thinking, that’s cool, but what’s the reason for the site’s mention today? Well, [...]

Though it never made the ‘big' news, Italy's latest foray into the bloggosphere is indicative of some rather strange thinking from their leaders. Prime Minister Romano Prodi's undersecretary Franco Levi composed the text to a law that requires anyone with a website or blog to register with the ROC (register of the Communication Authority). Site [...]