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  • Still thing Technorati tracks the entire blogosphere?

    China to have 60 million bloggers by end of 2006 (reuters)

    China is the world’s second-largest Internet market after the United States with more than 110 million users. A survey by Chinese search engine Baidu.com put the current number of blog, or Web log, sites at 36.82 million which are kept by 16 million people, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

    The number of Chinese bloggers is expected to hit 60 million by the end of this year, Xinhua said, quoting a report on China’s media industry by the prestigious Tsinghua University.

    Zhang Xiaorong, strategy development director of “Bokee”, which was set up in 2002 and claims the biggest share of China’s blogging market, said his company adds about 100,000 blogs a day.

    “The expected 60 million bloggers would account for more than half of China’s 110 million netizens,” Xinhua quoted Zhang as saying.

  • Expedia caught spamming Google

    SEO Black Hat blog reports that Expedia is spamming Google’s search results for terms including Viagra.

    I’m not sure exactly what the corporate structure is at Expedia these days, but the use to be owned by IAC Corp, the very same people that own Ask.com (previously Ask Jeeves) as well as other sites such as Hotwire.

    Wonder if Google will take action?

  • NBC report on Blogs, but you’ve got to have IE to watch it

    The CBS Public Eye blog is reporting on a NBC news story on blogging….but if you want to watch it online, don’t bother unless you’ve got IE!

    The story itself is pretty general….Im just annoyed that if you want to view NBC view online you have to use IE.

  • Canvas, just what the WP doctor ordered

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    Notice this great software via Aaron’s new blog, Canvas.

    It basically allows you to set up your WordPress blog from within WordPress, everything from layout to colours, without needing to touch any code. But it’s not a basic editor, we are talking full customisation here. Really great, easy to use stuff. I haven’t given it a go yet but I will be shortly. If I was Matt Mullenweg, I’d be signing up these folks with Automattic yesterday!

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  • More on Blogdesk from Johannes Oppermann

    BlogDesk-buttonI’ve been using Blogdesk for a couple of days now, and for once in my life I can actually feel my blogging productivity increase, mainly because I can quickly copy, cut and edit an image into any blog post, to any of my blogs, along with what I’ve got to say on the story.

    I asked Johannes Oppermann, the German based author of Blogdesk, a few quick questions, and this was his response:

    I wrote BlogDesk because blogging is about communication and I like the idea to enable people to communicate (one of my other programs is the mail client PostMe). Blogging seems to be easy, but it’s only easy for geeks and the younger tech-generation. I know a lot of people that could never publish a photo with WordPress – but they can do using BlogDesk. When I develop a new program I always think of my 70 year old dad – he has to be able to work with my program.

    Why do I give it away for free? I don’t like selling

    Again, I’m not being paid for this plug, but I’m loving Blogdesk mainly because of it’s imaging editing abilities. It doesn’t work with all blog clients, but well…technorati tags, image editing, categories…everything I’d ever want…well pretty much close to it. So give it a try! it’s well worth it, and I’m some one who has never felt comfortable with blogging tools like this.

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  • Cowboy with a blog on the marketq

    I’m sort of disappointed I didn’t see this at JOAB:

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    But I’ll give the auction a plug anyway.

  • SixApart DOS attack

    Lots of stories all over the web about a big Denial of Service attack aimed at Six Apart.

    CNet quoting Anil Dash:
    “Any large service tends to have a pretty constant level of attacks, but this was on a scale that I don’t think anybody could have anticipated,” Dash said. “I think it is of a scale that would have impacted any large site on the Web”.

    We’ve had one of these before, on a much smaller scale out of China. It’s never, ever nice. My thoughts with the SixApart team at this time.

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  • A Weblogs Inc/ Gawker tie up?

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    Jason Calacanis and Nick Denton together in New York 3 May 2006. Now it’s public knowledge these two have had a love/ hate relationship for a long time. So what’s going on here? Is AOL wanting to acquire Gawker Media as well (imagine that, they’d own over 60% of the blog network media space if they did). Is it a hatchet burying exercise? Very, very interesting 🙂

    (via Blogebrity)

  • Sphere, just another blog search engine.

    All the blogosphere is buzzing about Sphere, the latest kid on the blog search engine block.

    Maybe I’ve become sceptical again, but I played with it for a while, its just another blog search engine, and I honestly don’t think it’s quite at the Technorati level yet. Pretty to look at, for sure, but outside of the nice look, I couldn’t find much that was really special.

    I’m tempted to start asking people like Michael Arrington and Steve Rubel whether they are actually capable of giving critical press to anything new in Web 2.0.

    I mean Tech Crunch and Micro Persuasion are both a good read, but Tech Chrunch in particular appears to be coming the poster boy for hyping every new Web 2.0 tool launch and nearly incapable of giving criticism to any Web 2.0 launch less they start loosing invitations to all the cool Web 2.0 launch parties Michael and the gang get invites to.

    Back to my cold and flu tablets now 🙂 A good round up of Sphere can be found over on Greywolfs blog.

  • Latest 2web podcast with Markus Frind of Plenty of Fish

    plentyoffishDespite the haze of the flu drugs I’ve started taking, and having my 3 year old running around the house with the same flu (isn’t it wonderful how your children love to share) I managed to participate in an interesting podcast this morning at 2web crew where Richard Giles and I interviewed Markus Frind, the chap behind the highly successful free dating site Plenty of Fish, who also makes about $10,000 USD a day from Adsense as well (well to be fair Richard did most of it…..).

    Worthy of listening to if your in the blogging business and use Adsense.

    He made one particularly interesting point right at the end. If you were starting up a site now, find something that others aren’t doing.

    Another point in relation to the so-called Web 2.0 bubble, he said that he didn’t think there was an across the board bubble, only a bubble in VC funding….interesting.

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