Posts tagged with 'Blogs and Blogging'
Yahoo has launched a Buzz widget for mobile users, allowing them to browse and ‘buzz up’ top articles from the past 12 hours. Alternatively, iPhone users can do this here, via an optimised version of Buzz aimed specifically at the sexy Apple handset, though no dedicated iPhone app is yet available in the iTunes Store.
Yahoo says the mobile widget can be found by searching for ‘Yahoo! Buzz’ from within the widget gallery.
This is another sign that Yahoo is looking to drive up usage of Buzz, its social news play, although there is more work to be done if it really wants to usurp Digg as the number one social media website.
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by Chris Lake
16 September 2008 16:53pm
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee is to offer reputable websites a kitemark, to help web users work out that they are trustworthy and reliable. The father of the web is to launch the scheme via his
World Wide Web Foundation
, which begins its work in 2009.
This is, of course, completely bonkers. Why has it come about? Because of a bunch of cults, that’s why...
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by Chris Lake
15 September 2008 18:06pm
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Obviously, converting every short term blog visitor into a regular user of your site is virtually impossible.
But there are a few things you can do to make a few more people become repeat visitors or at least check out the rest of your site.
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by Graham Charlton
15 September 2008 12:08pm
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Popego is a startup which was announced at the TechCrunch 50 conference this week, aiming to help you to 'enjoy a more meaningful web'.
Popego plans to do this by joining up all the accounts and profiles you have created around web and using this information to bring you relevant content.
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by Graham Charlton
15 September 2008 10:58am
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When done correctly, blogging can be valuable to a company, providing benefits for SEO and customer service. As long as it is done well, that is.
Many companies have now started their own blogs, so should your company follow suit? Very probably. Read on to understand why...
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by Graham Charlton
12 September 2008 16:02pm
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Launched this week as part of the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco, Yammer has taken the concept of Twitter and directed it towards improving communication between work colleagues.
We've been trying it out...
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by Graham Charlton
11 September 2008 08:30am
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Blogs, wikis, social networks, social news aggregator. Although there's certainly been a lot of hype around these things, when applied in the right circumstances they can serve a utility for many people and businesses.
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by Patrick Oak
10 September 2008 16:00pm
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This week, we speak to Ben Heald, chief executive of Sift Media, about the challenges of B2B online publishing, including the economy, how to monetise international traffic and tackle participation inequality in social media.
We ask him about trends from audiences and advertisers, how the sector is moving forward in terms of best practices, and why his journalists are now paid on a performance basis.
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by Richard Maven
09 September 2008 12:51pm
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Authonomy, a site from publisher Harper Collins, is a social network which will allow aspiring writers to exhibit their talents online.
Publishers receive too many manuscripts to sift through themselves, and this seems like a good way to sort the wheat from the chaff, so how does it shape up?
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by Graham Charlton
05 September 2008 13:11pm
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Many of the UK's newspaper websites have been redesigned over the past year or so and, in general, most are pretty good.
However, there are still a few annoying features of these sites which can spoil the user experience and could be improved upon.
Here is a selection...
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by Graham Charlton
27 August 2008 09:00am
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