Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
A new study from the University of Massachusetts attempts to answer the question that every aspiring blogger is asking - what makes a blog successful?
Dr Ganim Barnes surveyed 74 of the “biggest and best” blogs in the business to find out what makes a blog successful. Dr Barnes described the bloggers who participated in her study as the “most experienced, business savvy and respected bloggers who are at the forefront of innovation in the blogosphere.”
The survey discovered a number of “truths”, including:
- Blogs take time and commitment
- Blogs must be part of a plan
- A blog is a conversation
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
According to a report in Business Week, Fox Interactive Media is looking for a search partner for MySpace.
Fox Interactive sees search as an untapped revenue opportunity, and all the likely suspects - Google, Yahoo and MSN - are expected to compete fiercely to be the search engine of choice.
It will be interesting to see how such a deal affects the search preferences of MySpace members, and what contribution it makes to Fox Interactive’s bottom line.
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
The dangers of social networking sites for kids are well known, with there being cases of sexual predators using sites such as MySpace to meet kids. Sure, kids aren’t meant to be using services such as MySpace, but it’s not hard for them to pretend to be older in order to sign up.
A US company, Industrious Kids, has launched a new social networking web site called Imbee.com, which is designed to provide a safe haven for kids aged between eight and 14. Before an account for a childen can be set up, a parent needs establish their own identity and to authorise the membership using a credit card. The child’s profile is only accessible by invited family and friends, and is not indexed by search engines such as google. Imbee costs $3.95 per month for one adult and two children.
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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
A new blog aggregator - gnoos - has been launched to make it easier for Internet users to find Australian blogs.
Currently it’s quite difficult to find blogs in a particular country using tools like Technorati or Google Blog Search.
Gnoos’s main page also tracks updates of Australian blogs, Australian media reports, and global blogs.
While gnoos is still a relatively basic tool, there’s a lot of potential for it to grow into something much bigger, especially if it can gain the support of the Australian blogging community.
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