AOL launches Red blogs
AOL introduced a new weblog service with advanced privacy features aimed at teens.
Weblog platforms
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Scuttle bookmarks manager
Last night I installed Scuttle, an open-source online social bookmarks manager written using PHP and a MySQL backend.
Web Spam Squashing Summit will not be broadcast
Tomorrow's Web Spam Squashing Summit will not be broadcast to the outside world. No IRC, no audio, and no video stream will be published of the event.
Web Spam Squashing Summit
I have been busy this week organizing a Web Spam Squashing Summit to bring together key players involved in publishing and indexing content on the world wide web.
MSN Spaces and MSN Messenger
MSN Messenger now includes support for blogging to your MSN Spaces My Space page.
News.com announces Trackback and Pingback support
News.com officially announced support for TrackBank and Pingback links. Search engine optimizers are already excited by the prospect of "anyone linking to a CNET News.com story who sends the proper notification will get a link back in return" from the PageRank 8 site. CNET is also referencing TrackBack and PingBack URLs as link relations in the page header. I like the TrackBack button for readers CNET uses for readers to look at other related sources. I need to do some more reading on Pingback, still not sure what differentiates it from TrackBack….
Betting on Tools that Power Blogs
Olga Kharif of BusinessWeek wrote about the companies building weblog tools and the venture capital that follows. Ask David Sifry when his little San Francisco startup called Technorati will turn a profit, and he laughs contagiously. No, Technorati, which tracks Web logs, or blogs, and will soon offer blog searches, is a long way from turning a profit. But it has big-league venture-capital backers like Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital, and they're willing to wait as blog entrepreneurs cast around for a good business model….
Evan Williams leaving Google
Evan Williams is leaving Google. Evan is the founder of Pyra Labs and creator of Blogger, which was sold to Google in 2003. Whatever Evan ends up doing it should be interesting. Good luck! I have enjoyed your pictures lately and I intend to stay tuned in many formats….
Why bloggers are good for profits
Paul Carr of The Guardian writes about how The Guardian and other media outlets have embraced bloggers and seen monetary results. Free content for partners equals more traffic, profit, and credibility for the paper. The trial came about when we modified our site to allow Google news users to access one free article from our paid archive before they hit our subscription wall. The system worked brilliantly, and we realised very quickly that it could be modified to allow single-page access to visitors from any site we chose. We emailed a few of our blog buddies inviting them to try…
Relief organization using weblog and RSS
Compassion International uses RSS to share stories on how the organization is making a difference in the lives of children in 23 developing countries. The organization posts their content to a private TypePad weblog and uses NewsGator to keep its staff informed around the world….
War Against Comment Spam
Mark Glaser wrote about the war against comment spam in Online Journalism Review. He does a good job of gathering various examples and viewpoints from well-known bloggers and publishers….
Chicago Sun Times on TypePad
Andy Innatko of the Chicago Sun Times reviewed Six Apart's TypePad offering yesterday. The article seems to be a bit too slanted in Six Apart's favor. The article makes many mentions of TypePad as a place for real publishing, away from the noise of LiveJournal or Blogger. A Blogger or LiveJournal blog limits you to basic, straightforward blogging and, worse, every Blogger or LiveJournal blog looks more or less alike. Blogger and TypePad both allow template selection. Both services allow you to select from a template library. Both allow for custom styles. Disseminating news and fostering discussion about the potential…
Neil Turner on Movable Type and WordPress
Neil Turner has a good post about his evaluation of Movable Type and WordPress. Matt Mullenweg (lead developer of WordPress) of addresses some of the points brought up by Neil in the comments section of the post. Neil Turner is one of the authors of the upcoming Hacking Movable Type book….
New York Times on classroom weblogs
Jeffrey Salingo of the New York Times writes about weblogs in the classroom in today's issue. For teachers, blogs are attractive because they require little effort to maintain, unlike more elaborate classroom Web sites, which were once heralded as a boon for teaching. Helped by templates found at sites like tblog.com and movabletype.org, teachers can build a blog or start a new topic in an existing blog by simply typing text into a box and clicking a button. Parents are also able to follow along and they can see what is happening in their child's classroom, and encourage the child…
Microsoft to launch weblog service in Japan
Microsoft will launch a trial weblog service in Japan on August 10 followed by an official launch later this year. The service will be powered by T.O.S Co., Ltd and Microsoft aims to have one million users in its first year. My guess is the weblog service will be an extension of the ASP-based home page software T.O.S already has: Maho no I-land….
The new Blogger interface
Blogger is new and improved, and I like it! You choose your feed and choose one of 31 template designed by Jeffery Zeldman, Dan Cederholm, Todd Dominey, Dan Rubin, Dave Shea, and Doug Bowman….
AOL Journals update
AOL updated its AOL Journals service today. News.com has a report. Members will be able to add to their journals by sending instant messages or text messages from a mobile phone. AOL claims over 33 million subscribers, but only 220,000 journal creations. 0.7% of all subscribers start a journal? Seems discouraging, but maybe AOL is not marketing the service well enough….
Wired Magazine : The (Evil) Genius of Comment Spammers
Steven Johnson writes in this month's Wired Magazine about the battle over content spam in weblogs. "[S]pammers weren't trying to win the attention of the bloggers or their readerships. They were trying to win the attention of Google, like the high school bully beating up the class nerd to impress the homecoming queen. The nerd feels violated, but the truth is that it isn't really about him at all."…
Radio Userland 8
I am experienting with a weblog using Radio Userland 8. Check it out here. Full SOAP and XML-RPC support, but I haven't taken advantage of the RSS aggregates yet….