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AOL To Acquire Huffington Post

Tuesday, 8th February 2011

AOL Inc. has just announced that they will soon acquire one of the most popular online blogs, The Huffington Post. (more…)

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Thousands of Blogs Shut Down Due To Terror Threat

Thursday, 29th July 2010

Blogetery.com has recently been shut down, bringing down thousands of blogs, following a terror threat being posted on one of the blogs hoste on the domain. (more…)

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Blogs About To Get Longer As WordPress Enable Voice

Friday, 2nd July 2010

A new service has recently been introduced by WordPress. They have now made it possible for bloggers to publish a post through their phones. (more…)

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Facebook As Popular As TV

Tuesday, 20th April 2010

It is a known fact that social networks are gaining in popularity. According to the latest reports released by Nielsen Online, 73% of the U.S. population is now engaged in some form of social media activity or the other. (more…)

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Social Media More Popular With Teens Than Blogs

Monday, 8th February 2010

A study conducted by the Pew Research Center, has shown that the once popular blogs are now unsurprisingly taking a backseat, while social networks like Facebook are taking centre stage on the Internet. (more…)

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Email More Popular Than RSS For Blog Subscribers

Friday, 8th January 2010

Hubspot has been studying the subscription methods used by followers of 605 of their small and medium sized business customers’ blogs, and they have found some fairly surprising results. (more…)

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Google’s Reaction To Blog Monitoring By FTC

Tuesday, 20th October 2009

U.S. authorities have finally decided to do what many felt was long overdue. They are making it compulsory for bloggers to disclose that they are receiving remuneration in cash or kind for reviewing any product. (more…)

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SMEs That Blog Get 55 Percent More Traffic

Thursday, 20th August 2009

A study conducted by Hubspot reveals that businesses that use blogs benefit substantially from doing so. (more…)

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Women Favor Blogs Over Twitter

Thursday, 14th May 2009

The 2009 Women in Social Media Study conducted by BlogHer, iVillage, and Compass partners revealed some very interesting habits of women as far as the use of blogs and other forms of social media are concerned. (more…)

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Top Information Sources For Bloggers

Tuesday, 10th March 2009

Bloggers often link to the sources where they get their information. A study carried out by Technorati found that chief among the non-blog sources linked to by bloggers are the websites of mainstream media companies. (more…)

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Vietnam To Censor Blogs

Wednesday, 31st December 2008

According to recent reports from BBC News, Vietnam is planning to put restrictions on the material published through blogs in the country. (more…)

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Twitter Rejects Facebook Merger

Monday, 1st December 2008

After several weeks of negotiations, Twitter and Facebook have failed to come to an agreement about a possible acquisition of the micro-blogging service by the social network. (more…)

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Twitter On Top Of Mumbai Terrror Attack News

Friday, 28th November 2008

Even as the terrible attacks that are taking place in the financial capital of India, Mumbai (Bombay) started to unfold, users of Twitter in India started using the micro-blogging service to discuss the events as they happened. Other users wasted no time uploading pictures from the scenes of terror to their Flickr accounts. (more…)

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How Credible Are Blogs?

Monday, 3rd November 2008

For all those who have been against the very idea of censorship of blogs, here is something to be carefully considered. In the last one month, Apple stock prices have suffered a set back, twice. The reason – a lie written on a blog – both times. (more…)

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Google Blog Search Becomes Content Aggregator

Monday, 6th October 2008

Google Blog Search has a new homepage that makes it look more like a memetracker. Rather than being a pure search page, the service now resembles the Google News page, where search is combined with content aggregation. (more…)

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Twitter Once Again Delivers Breaking News First

Thursday, 31st July 2008

Twitter has been slowly and surely making its way to becoming a personal news wire of sorts.

Time and again the site has been the first to report some world event or breaking news. The latest example of this quick reporting is the earthquake which occurred around Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. (more…)

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Iran To Execute Bloggers

Thursday, 10th July 2008

The official news agency of Iran carried a report a while ago stating that the parliament is likely to toughen some of the laws, already in existence and make anti-establishment blogging an offence punishable by death. (more…)

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Blog Readership In U.K. Growing Faster

Friday, 13th June 2008

That blogs are becoming increasingly popular is obvious enough.
What is not quite so well known, is, how much the viewership for blogs has grown in recent years. (more…)

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Twitter Banned In Dubai

Tuesday, 22nd April 2008

Getting banned in the Middle East and China is fast becoming a sign of importance of a website. YouTube’s had it, the BBC has had it, and now up and coming social media site Twitter has had it happen to them. In the words of Ali G. “Respect”! (more…)

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Twitter Testing Ads Within Streams?

Thursday, 17th April 2008

Users of Twitter have revealed to TechCrunch that they have come across ads displayed within the twitter feeds during this past week, just after some breaks were reported in the continuity of their services. (more…)

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