Archive for February 8th, 2006

Market Rumors Abound In The Blogosphere

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

With juicy rumors out there like Apple to Buy Palm and Atom to Buy RSS, it’s only a matter of time until your company makes the blogosphere headlines.
To stay current on these happenings, you can easily subscribe to the search feed on your company’s name.

Go to Google (or Yahoo! News) and do a [...]

Meme Review - Blogosphere Tracking

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Memes are great helps in judging the effect a story has on the blogosphere. Some index all content that it sees, some only index a finite listing, and some do a combination of the two.
An early adopter of Memes, Richard MacManus of The Read/Write Web, has put together a comprehensive listing that’s [...]

RocketBoom Auction Ends Today

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Rocketboom, one of the most successful video podcasts put their advertising up for auction on Ebay, and the much-hyped auction ends today.
As of today, the highest bid has been $15K, but that is below the undisclosed minimum bid. This is the first podcast advertising auction, that I’ve heard of on Ebay.
While $15K sounds like [...]

Internal Messaging May Solve Your Communications Issues

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

An internal blog is a great solution for companies that need to have a secure way to relay messages to employees. 
And, internal blogs are scalable, just like external blogs.  By that, I mean you can choose a hosted solution that allows you to bypass your IT department and still get the convenient and secure, [...]

Blogsites AutoPing

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

I suppose many of you don’t know what pinging is. Well, the term comes from the process of sending data packets to a remote server to test and/or measure the connection between the two servers.
As it relates to blogging, however, pinging means sending a signal to a site alerting it that you [...]