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Latest stats on the blogosphere

David Sifry of Technorati published the latest numbers outlining the state of the blogosphere as measured by his company's search engine. Here is the summary:Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs.The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.Today, the blogosphere is doubling in...

Tags: Technorati, blogosphere

Blog posts 2006-08-07

Technorati: tracker of the blogosphere, or its shaper?

Technorati: tracker of the blogosphere, or its shaper?Technorati forming the blogosphereor Technorati forming Technorati?Right on the nailTechnorati is helping diversify the sources of the news we read and for that, it's already a champion of the new economy.The quality of articles in the blogs I go to is amazing and...

Tags: Blogging, Technorati, blogosphere

Discussion threads 2006-05-24

Technorati: tracker of the blogosphere, or its shaper?

Technorati calls itself “the world's leading authority on what's happening in the world of audience-generated media”, based on its tracking of millions of blogs in near real-time. Technorati’s current collaborations with a movie company, a PR firm and the Associated Press, however, beg the question: is Technorati merely tracking blogging...

Tags: Associated Press, Technorati

Blog posts 2006-05-23

Technorati and PR firm aim to translate blogosphere

On the heels of the Technorati-Edelman “Deal” (at Technorati, it is called the Technorati-Edelman partnership and at Edelman, it is called the Edelman-Technorati deal) Andy Lark speculates on its implications:Is Edelman paying or funding software development at Technorati? What specifically does fast-track mean?...What does "exclusive" mean?...Isn't this going to turn...

Tags: Technorati

Blog posts 2006-05-22

Is censorship bad for the economy of a country?

Technorati, the web services company that tracks the blogosphere, has been tracking which languages are being used. And the findings are very interesting, and there are lots of them. Can you guess which is the most popular language? Here is a post from David Sifry, CEO of Technorati, on the...

Tags: CHINESE, blogosphere

Blog posts 2006-05-02

The blogosphere's growing mismatch

Technorati's Dave Sifry published the latest blogosphere stats based on his logs. The blogsphere is growing like a weed, over 86,000 blogs per day on average, according to Technorati data. However, the mechanisms to aggregate and filter the blogosphere are not doubling in improvements every six months--not even close. It's...

Tags: Technorati, blog, blogosphere

Blog posts 2006-04-17

Additional Resources

Apple makes it official. Notebook announcement next week.

The blogosphere was abuzz this morning with news of a sub-$1,000 Mac notebook - based on a price list that was given to retail stores  and subsequently leaked to bloggers. But where's the confirmation from Apple? The company wouldn't announce some sort of milestone - and a sub-$1,000 notebook is...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Google Blog Search re-launches, now it's useful

Google relaunched their service called "Google Blog Search" today, and I have to say, it's pretty hot. The service puts itself almost in direct competition with the popular Techmeme service -- with the exception that Google does it for everything, not just Tech news. According to...

Tags: Google Inc., Blog Search, Blogging, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Student Technology Day: how to start a start-up

Andy McLoughlin spoke a little while ago about how he started up his own web start-up, Huddle.net, from a simple idea in a pub to a fully working business and enterprise collaboration suite. It's a large network of hosted workspaces; yet another project management and team collaboration service based on...

Tags: Inspiration, Family, Huddle.net, Collaboration, Groupware, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Web Science: The next academic hot spot

Will your computer science degree be replaced by a Web sciences one? It might as academics are increasingly dabbling with the study of the Web, but first a workable definition is needed. In a treatise in Scientific American's October issue, Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee make the...

Tags: Web, Channel Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Hunt for Palin 'hacker': Journalism or mob mentality?

David Sarno has a thought-provoking piece on the blogosphere's track-down-cum-witch-hunt that fingered David Kernell as the "Sarah Palin Hacker" long before the feds indicted him or anyone else (which they still haven't done.)Indeed, a grand jury met today in Chattanooga and failed to issue any indictments. (Times Free Press.) ...

Tags: Life, Journalism, Blogosphere, Hacker, Mob, David Sarno, Blogging, Hacking, Internet, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Microsoft vs. Apple: the multi-touch war

Because the Evil Queen of Numbers has kept the Windows branch so quiet about Windows 7, we've been relying entirely on speculation, the blogosphere, leaks and occasionally "that dreaded New Yorker" as Sinofsky would probably say. Multi-touch is the latest craze it seems. Once the technology was...

Tags: Multi-touch, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Voice Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Microsoft pressed SHIFT-DEL on epic fail Gates/Seinfeld ads

Microsoft pressed SHIFT-DEL on epic fail Gates/Seinfeld adsTwo old farts pushing an outdated OS, that's a winner...I can't believe Microsoft thought this was a good marketing strategy by bringing one old comedian and one old nerd to brand to an upcoming generation of computer users and buyers. These commercials were...

Tags: Microsoft AD, Microsoft Corp., advertisement, Gates/Seinfeld, Gates/Seinfeld ad, Shift-Del

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

Creation in science classes? Maybe...

Professor Michael Reiss, Director of Education for the Royal Society, seriously irritated most of his fellow Royal Society members and a good chunk of the scientific community by posting a blog entry on September 11th suggesting that creationism and intelligent design should not automatically be excluded from science education. ...

Tags: Professor, Science, Biology, Student, Teacher, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-14

Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soon

Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soonExtended Length Version of New Ad UpThere's already a director's cut of the 2nd installation online now:http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=20040177-aa27-4f24-a1ae-140c865c81f9Bring out the talking Coke tongues!!:-)RE: Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soonThey missed a golden opportunity. We are in the midst of...

Tags: specific consumer ad, More Windows, consumer ad, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

The WOA story emerges as better outcomes sought for SOA

Over the summer the enterprise IT blogosphere was swept up in a conversation around the concepts that many are calling Web-Oriented Architecture, or WOA. A different way to think about service-oriented architecture, WOA extolls a different but related set of technologies, in particular how to apply them in specific ways...

Tags: Web, Business, SOA, Organization, WOA, WOA Story, REST, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.

I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...

Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?

Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?Read the book Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh BernoffRead the book Groundswell if you want great insight into how to do this properly and there are also lots of case studies and stats in the book.In respect of the product ratings...

Tags: Groundswell, Dell Computer Corp., Direct2Dell

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with Firefox

The plug-ins, the add-ons, the "download and use with" programs. So many people have been on about the "porn mode" InPrivate feature, the coloured tabs and the accelerator features, but what seems to be missing from the blogosphere is the entire gallery of additional software for the product. ...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-04

The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?

Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Customer Choice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-08-28