Blogging News: Page 20

This is page 20 of the blogging news archives.

Yahoo Acquires BuzzTracker for $5 Million (September 14, 2007): TechCrunch and All Things Digital are reporting that Yahoo has acquired BuzzTracker, a memetracker, for about $5 million.

How to Find Your Favorite Netscape (September 12, 2007): Netscape seems to be rebranding, changing and yet still keeping older versions of itself around.

Britney Spears and Un-Embeddable Video Clips (September 10, 2007): There are some events that celebrity and music bloggers cannot miss covering and Britney Spears' awful performance at the 2007 Video Music Awards is one of these events.

Feedjit Live Web Traffic Widget (September 7, 2007): Feedjit is offering a widget that provides information about who is visiting your blog or website.

Manpower Employment Law Blog Includes Music (September 6, 2007): Manpower Inc.

Burning Man Blogs (September 4, 2007): Burning Man continues to thrive despite one man's successful attempt to burn the Burning Man prematurely.

Google News Now Hosting Stories From Wire Services (September 2, 2007): Google continues to show signs that it is becoming more of a media company.

Microsoft Launches Hacker Blog (September 1, 2007): Computerworld reports that Microsoft has launched a new hackers' blog called hackers @ Microsoft.

Blogger Spammed With Malware Links (August 30, 2007): A BBC article says hungreds of Blogger blogs have been spammed with short posts containing a link to booby-trapped downloads that can be used to take over a Windows PC.

Boing Boing Launches Gadget Blog (August 28, 2007): The people behind the popular Boing Boing blog have decided to take on blogs like Engadget, Gizmodo and the other gadget blogs.

New Bloglines Beta Available (August 27, 2007): Bloglines has released a beta version of its popular web-based news aggregator.

The LOLz Street Journal (August 26, 2007): LOLMSM! The Wall Street Journal has a news story about LOLcats and the popular I Can Has Cheezburger? website.

Blogger Adds Video Uploads Feature (August 24, 2007): InfoWorld has an article that discusses Google's latest round of Blogger bugs.

New York Times Launches MyTimes (August 23, 2007): The New York Times has launched a personalized news start page called MyTimes.

Ads Start Appearing on Some YouTube Videos (August 22, 2007): YouTube blogs that they have started running YouTube InVideo ads on some of the YouTube videos for "select partners.

Google Launches Embeddable Maps (August 21, 2007): Google has announced the launch of its embeddable maps feature that makes it easy to post a map on a blog or website.

The Incredible Embeddable Web (August 20, 2007): Steve Rubel has an article in Ad Age today that talks about the trend towards bite-sized nuggets of information and bite-sized applications.

Oxford University Press Monitoring the Blogosphere for New Words (August 17, 2007): A short entry on OxfordMail.

Web Searchers Know YouTube's Videos Are Funny (August 17, 2007): Here's a great example about how YouTube is becoming the top choice when people search for videos - at least funny ones.

Google to Launch Embeddable Maps (August 14, 2007): APC reports that Google is going to be launching an embed feature for Google Maps that will make it as easy to embed in your blog as a YouTube video clip.