Category Archives: Blog Services
Has Twitter Won the Microblogging War?
The always-analytical Louis Gray delivers some excellent micro-blogging insight, looking at how Twitter saw an 18% month-over-month increase in visitors last month. Meanwhile, new rivals – Identi.ca and Plurk.com – both lost traction while Friendfeed was flat. Gray contends that … Continue reading
Does Anyone Use Trackbacks Anymore?
Yesterday, I wrote a post about why Macs are more expensive than Windows machines. In citing a couple of other blogs, I ran into a rarely-seen creature: the trackback. You know, that tool that lets bloggers know when someone else … Continue reading
Talking to Disqus’ Daniel Ha
If you write a blog or read blogs, one of the major challenges is managing comments. For bloggers, comments can consume a lot of cycles and can be difficult to structure and manage. For people who like to comment on … Continue reading
Declaring RSS Bankruptcy
RSS is fantastic tool for delivering content to you rather than you having to chase it all the place. As more content producers get hip to the wonders of RSS, subscribing to RSS feeds is becoming increasingly easy. Click, Subscribe, … Continue reading
So How is WordPress Going to Make Money, Matt?
It’s difficult not to like WordPress (especially if you’re a blogger!) but after its parent, Automattic, raised $29.5-million earlier this year, there was a fair bit of head-scratching out why it needed so much dough and how its investors (including … Continue reading
Automattic’s Aggressive Ambitions
Hot on the heels of snagging $29.5-million in venture capital, Automattic made another announcement – this time unveiling a Twitter-like service called Prologue in which WordPress users can exchange short, Twitter-like messages. Matt Mullenweg claims Automattic isn’t going after Twitter … Continue reading
