Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Oprah Tweets Forty-Three Percent More Visitors…

You can’t blink these days – otherwise you might miss the huge amount of daily press coverage afforded micro-blogging service Twitter. Even Oprah Winfrey is getting into the service, and according to Hitwise – increased unique visitors by forty-three percent last Friday.

Everyone knows that when Oprah plugs a book, retail outlet, or website on her [...]

New Blog Network takes aim at Weblogs Inc.

A few days ago Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb broke the news that a new blog network calling themselves Crowd Fusion plans to take on Weblogs Inc. It seems the company has raised $3 million in venture capital from investors like Netscape founder Marc Andreeson amongst others.

While it may not be the ideal economic climate [...]

YouTube – Changing the Future of Entertainment?

Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-Founder of YouTube talked about the future of online video on the Google Blog today. He talks about how 13 hours of video content is loaded on to YouTube every minute.

Online video sure is a big deal, no doubt about that. Providing free hosting is also a big deal – no [...]

Drudge Report Loves Links…

Scott Karp over at Publishing 2.0 recently commented on The Drudge Report’s relationship between linking to other sites and the engagement of readers to the sites content.

In fact he points out that “the most important difference between the top site and all the other sites, is that this top site — Drudge — has nothing [...]