Archive for October, 2008
Blogs Playing Role In Purchasing Decisions
BloggingBlog readers do not appear to depend heavily on search as a way to find new blogs compared to consumers of traditional online media, according to a new survey sponsored by BuzzLogic and conducted by JupiterResearch.
One in five general blog readers (defined as people who have read a blog in the past 12 months) use [...]
Blogs Closing The Gap With Mainstream Media
BloggingBlogging is now ubiquitous and influential and has closed the gap on mainstream according to a Technorati-sponsored survey of bloggers conducted in July and August 2008 by Decipher.
“Blogs are now mainstream media,” said Richard Jalichandra, CEO of Technorati, in an interview with eMarketer. “We’ve certainly seen that with the number of professional, semiprofessional and passion/enthusiast [...]
WordPress Developers Buy PollDaddy
BloggingPollDaddy has created about 1 million polls and 195 million votes have been tallied.
“Now whenever you do a post you’ll be a few clicks away from having your own poll, and you can have as many as you like!,” said Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress.
PollDaddy features include:
A selection of skins to choose from [...]
Widgetbox Partners With Yardbarker On Sports Blog Network
BloggingWidgetbox, a widget community and the Yardbarker Network (YBN), a community of sports blogs has partnered to connect YBN’s 600 bloggers with a single widget.
YBN will power the Widgetbox Sports Channel in the new Widgetbox Blog Network.
Widgetbox launched the Widgetbox Blog Network in September, taking advantage of its reach of over 1.4 million Web sites [...]
Hackers Leading Users To Fake Blogs
BloggingWebroot, a security software firm, said it has detected a new technique being used by hackers to attract PC users to fake blog sites containing malware.
“For the first time, hackers are capitalizing on the top news stories from Google Trends Labs, which lists the day’s most frequently searched topics, which can include news of the [...]