Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category
I’ve found that it takes too much time to try to maintain three sites when the topics are constantly overlapping so Im consolidating the bloguniverse.com subdomains, weblog and podcast, over to Blog Hacking.
The feed is already pointed over there and this site will be left up for archival purposes, but the action has moved. And […]
Blogs must be driving SOAP sales
1 Comment Published by Chris August 18th, 2006 in Miscellaneous, Blog MarketingThe blog universe has responded with taking their dollar to the opening weekend of “Snakes On A Plane”:
“Fandango, the nation’s largest online, phone and mobile movie ticketing service, reports that SNAKES ON A PLANE swallowed 62% of Thursday’s ticket sales. In a recent Fandango online poll, 41% of respondents said they plan to […]
Pheedo announced that it is the largest RSS ad network for Apple related publishers.
Current Pheedo publishers include Apple Insider, Mac Daily News,
MacNN, Think Secret, Mac Fix-it, BackBeat Media and Mac Observer. As
Apple makes the headlines this week at its Worldwide Developers
Conference (WWDC), these publishers are leveraging Pheedo’s RSS
management services to broadcast news, analysis and […]
Google Blog Search - It’s fast
0 Comments Published by Chris August 7th, 2006 in Miscellaneous, Blog MarketingI was really surprised today by the speed at which Google Blog Search indexes blog posts. Within minutes (5 by my casual watch), my post over at bloghacking was added to their search results.
So far, this blog still shows a Page Rank of 0 and that makes it more incredible. They’re definitely doing something right.
Technorati […]
Hey Feedster - A little tip to clean some of your results
0 Comments Published by Chris August 1st, 2006 in MiscellaneousRecently I was searching on Feedster for blog posts dealing with “blogging” and came upon at least 10-20% of the posts being the ubiquitous “Hello World” post from Wordpress.
It shouldn’t be this hard to filter this from the search results and make the results more relevant. The posts tend to have the same post signature.
Technorati […]
Following up on a previous post and Debbie Weil’s post on BlogWrite for CEOs, there are some other interesting facts that are in the Pew Internet’s Bloggers: A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers
55% of bloggers blog under a pseudonym - To protect their privacy and to keep their online lives separate from offline.
Only 18% […]
Want to be a better blogger? Check out these tips.
0 Comments Published by Chris July 14th, 2006 in MiscellaneousTony Morgan - 49 Simple Strategies for Better Blogging
Tony Morgan has some great tips on improving your blogging. He begins and ends with “Be you”, and includes “Have Fun”. Sounds good.
Technorati Tags: blog tips, blogging, bloggers, tony morgan
David Sifry tells Guy Kawasaki how to get into the Technorati 100
0 Comments Published by Chris July 13th, 2006 in MiscellaneousGuy Kawasaki interviews David Sifry from Technorati and asks him how to get into their Top 100 sites.
Technorati Tags: guy kawasaki, david sifry, technorati, a-list, blogging
AOL-Netscape Launches Massive “Digg-Killer”
1 Comment Published by Chris June 15th, 2006 in MiscellaneousFrom TechCrunch via Digg
“On Thursday, AOL’s Netscape property will no longer be just another portal - it is being converted into a Digg-killer.”
The site is being overrun at this time (10:45pm PST) and Im sure it will be worse in the morning. General news stories with the top listing going to Matt Lauer batting around […]
Internationalization of blogging continues to grow
1 Comment Published by Chris May 1st, 2006 in MiscellaneousDave Sifry has posted part two of his State of the Blogosphere, this time focusing on the use of tagging and the growth of international blogs.
His stats show that English is not the most popular language for blogs, but Japanese has taken that place. He also discusses the rate of growth of the Chinese bloggers […]