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Twitter User Data Released To UK Local Council
31st May 2011
The Council of South Tyneside in the North of England has approached the U.S. court in California demanding information from Twitter about the identity of a particular user. More »
AOL To Acquire Huffington Post
8th February 2011
AOL Inc. has just announced that they will soon acquire one of the most popular online blogs, The Huffington Post. More »
Thousands of Blogs Shut Down Due To Terror Threat
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 »
Blogs About To Get Longer As WordPress Enable Voice
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 »
Facebook As Popular As TV
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 »
Social Media More Popular With Teens Than Blogs
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 »
Email More Popular Than RSS For Blog Subscribers
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 »
Google’s Reaction To Blog Monitoring By FTC
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 »
Is Search Traffic Not Always The Best?
17th September 2009
According to a report released recently by HubSpot, search is no longer necessarily the best source of traffic for online marketers. More »
SMEs That Blog Get 55 Percent More Traffic
20th August 2009
A study conducted by Hubspot reveals that businesses that use blogs benefit substantially from doing so. More »
Traditional Media Delivers News Faster Than Social Media
20th July 2009
A number of recent major news events and breaking news stories were reported first on blogs and microblogging sites like Twitter, even before they were reported by the traditional media. However a study conducted at Cornell University finds that traditional media still remains vital in delivering the news first. More »
Will Google Start A Micro-Blogging Search Engine?
15th June 2009
The ever growing popularity of the micro-blogging site, Twitter, and the large number of microblogs being constantly posted on it, have made it extremely difficult for users to find exactly what they are looking for. More »
Women Favor Blogs Over Twitter
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 »
Is Google About To Acquire Twitter?
3rd April 2009
Undisclosed sources have apparently informed TechCrunch that Google is holding negotiations to buy over the popular microblogging site Twitter. More »
Where Do People Go From Twitter?
18th March 2009
It has long been felt that people go downstream to Twitter from sites such as Google and Facebook. However, a recent post from analytics firm Hitwise, shows that the reverse is also true. More »
Top Information Sources For Bloggers
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 »
Google Japan to Google, “We’re Sorry”
16th February 2009
Google was the object of ridicule among many SEO professionals last week, when the search giant penalised its own subsidiary for buying links. More »
Vietnam To Censor Blogs
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 »
How Credible Are Blogs?
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 »
Google Blog Search Becomes Content Aggregator
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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