Blogging News: Page 4

This is page 4 of the blogging news archives.

Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone to Publish Book (June 4, 2012): Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is publishing a book called Things a Little Bird Told Me.

Clara Shih Talks Facebook's $100 Billion Valuation (May 19, 2012): Facebook's IPO debuted yesterday.

Study Finds 50% of Moms Have Friended Their Children on Facebook (May 9, 2012): A new study by JustAsk! from Crowd Science reveals some findings about how mothers are using social media.

Automattic, Company Behind WordPress, Expects to Hit $45 Million in Revenues This Year (April 26, 2012): AllThingsD reports that Automattic, the company behind WordPress.

Beats Electronics to Acquire MOG (March 21, 2012): AllThingsD reports that Beats Electronics, a manufacturer of headphones, is buying MOG.

Rush Limbaugh Joins Twitter (March 16, 2012): Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been losing advertisers ever since he called Georgetown University student Sarah Fluke a "slut" on his radio program.

Report: CNN in Talks to Acquire Mashable (March 13, 2012): Reuters reports that CNN is in talks to buy Mashable.

Twitter Acquires Posterous (March 12, 2012): Twitter has acquired the Posterous blogging service.

Study at CMU, MIT, Georgia Tech Suggests Nine Ways to Improve Tweets (March 1, 2012): Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology conducted a study and found that users say only a little over a third of the tweets they receive are worthwhile.

DataSift to Offer Two Years of Tweets to Marketers (February 29, 2012): A company named DataSift is offering marketers Twitter data going back two years through its Historics service.

Pew Survey Finds Over 60% of Social Network Users Have Deleted a Friend (February 25, 2012): A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet Project & American Life found that most people choose restricted privacy settings.

Too Much Twitter Unhealthy Warns Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone (February 24, 2012): The Guardian reports that Twitter co-founder and creative director Biz Stone has warned too much Twitter can be bad for your health.

Oprah Winfrey Forced to Delete Promotional Nielsen Tweet (February 14, 2012): Oprah tweeted a self-promotional tweet on Sunday that got her into trouble with the Nielsen ratings people.

Study Finds Inc. 500 Companies Are Blogging Less (January 30, 2012): A study of the blogging habits of the 2011 Inc. 500 companies found that they are blogging less than last year.

Highlight Social Network Locates People in the Real World (January 24, 2012): Highlight is an iPhone app that aims to help you locate people in the real world.

The White House Joins Google+ (January 20, 2012): The White House is now on Google's relatively new social network, Google+.

Wordpress, Boing Boing, Reddit, Wikipedia Among Sites Going Dark to Protest SOPA and PIPA (January 18, 2012): Wordpress.

Reddit Plans Black Out on Jan 18 to Protest PIPA/SOPA Legislation (January 10, 2012): Reddit has announced it will black out its regular content on January 18th from 8am to 8pm to protest the PIPA/SOPA legislation.

Tim Tebow and Bronco's Overtime Win Sets Tweets Per Second Sports Record (January 9, 2012): Tim Tebow and the Bronco's overtime playoff win helped set a new sports Tweet per second record.

PostSecret Shuts Down iPhone App (January 2, 2012): PostSecret was one of the early successful blogs.