I’ve found that it takes too much time to try to maintain three sites when the topics are constantly overlapping so Im consolidating the bloguniverse.com subdomains, weblog and podcast, over to Blog Hacking.
The feed is already pointed over there and this site will be left up for archival purposes, but the action has moved. And if you’re sharing some link love, please consider changing the link over to Blog Hacking.
Hope to see you on the other side - Chris.
So after months of trying out a new design and software, I’ve updated the Blog Universe Directory. It has also moved to a different faster server and seems to be running well, despite the occasional hiccup.
During the transition we didn’t have much downtime and the handoff appeared to go over smoothly which is blessing.
Feedback is welcome and encouraged
Technorati Tags: server, bloguniverse, blogdirectory, promotion, marketing, redesign
Digital Media Adoption - from Ian@Work:
“AdAge on the adoption of blogs, podcasts and newsfeeds: “According to Jupiter Research, 7% of American adults write blogs and 22% read them; about 8% listen to podcasts and 5% use RSS feeds. According to a separate study by WorkPlace Print Media, 88% of the at-work audience doesn’t even know what RSS…”
Technorati Tags: blogging, podcasts, rss, feeds, blog marketing, bloggers, podcasters
AOL to offer video downloads from majors - DVD days numbered
0 Comments Published by Chris August 25th, 2006 in Videoblogs, General newsAOL to offer video from all the big guys - from Techcrunch
While this may be a good thing for most, it would be nice if they start off or develop some technology that would work with growing Mac user base other than Windows Media Player.
Technorati Tags: aol, video, vod, techcrunch, downloads, make it playable on a mac
AOL CTO resigns amid search data scandal
0 Comments Published by Chris August 21st, 2006 in General newsFallout continues from AOL release of search (from Reuters)
“AOL’s chief technology officer Maureen
Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally
releasing search data for more than a half a millions users, has
resigned from the company, according to an internal company
memorandum.
AOL declined comment.
The online division of Time Warner Inc. (TWX.N: Quote, Profile,
Research) drew the ire of privacy advocates, who called for the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission to review the company’s customer data
retention practices after the data was released earlier this month.
AOL also said it plans to create a task force to review its current
customer information privacy policy.
John McKinley, AOL’s former CTO, will take over on an interim basis.
Two other employees in the company’s research department has also left
the company, a source familiar with the matter said.”
Technorati Tags: aol, search data, privacy, timewarner, time warner, cto
Blogs must be driving SOAP sales
1 Comment Published by Chris August 18th, 2006 in Miscellaneous, Blog MarketingThe blog universe has responded with taking their dollar to the opening weekend of “Snakes On A Plane”:
“Fandango, the nation’s largest online, phone and mobile movie ticketing service, reports that SNAKES ON A PLANE swallowed 62% of Thursday’s ticket sales. In a recent Fandango online poll, 41% of respondents said they plan to see the movie on opening weekend.”
Technorati Tags: soap, snakes on a plane, blog economy, samuel l jackson
PayPerPost, A-list bloggers’ fave whipping boy, adds Web 2.0 features
0 Comments Published by Chris August 14th, 2006 in Blogs, Blog MarketingPayPerPost.com released Beta 2.0 of its online blog advertising service on Friday, August 11, 2006. The new features allow more interaction between advertisers and publishers in an effort to combat spam posts, one of the biggest past criticisms about the company.
“This upgrade is focused on improving the quality of content for advertisers and bloggers,” stated Ted Murphy, Founder/CEO of PayPerPost. “We have introduced a variety of features that will allow our service to naturally improve itself and provide the best Web 2.0 advertising experience for both bloggers and advertisers.”
The core feature upgrade of this version of the blog advertising service introduces the concept of ranking and flagging. PayPerPost reviewers will still be responsible for accepting or rejecting advertisements based on meeting overall criteria, such as length and proper links. However, advertisers will now have the ability to rank the approved blog based on their personal perceived value. In a similar fashion, bloggers will be able to rank advertiser opportunities based on their perceived value.
Bloggers and advertisers will also have the opportunity to “flag” each other. This feature will allow both advertisers and bloggers to block transactions with lower quality participants in the program.
“Our goal is to provide a high quality service,” said Murphy. “Ranking and flagging will make our users pay more attention to the way they interact with the system. This two-sided ranking is a unique approach
to achieving quality in online advertising. We will be incorporating many more Web 2.0 conventions like this into our system in the future.”
In addition to these features, PayPerPost.com has made a number of other refinements including a new AJAX dashboard for bloggers. PayPerPost will be selling display advertising within the dashboard to those advertisers looking to promote their blog advertising opportunities more heavily.
Technorati Tags: payperpost, payblogging, blog monetization, blogging, blog marketing
Google Code Jam Invite (I’m not really paying to send you)
0 Comments Published by Chris August 14th, 2006 in Events, General newsIf you think you have the programming chops, come one come all:
Google Inc., announced today that registration is now open for Google Code Jam 2006. Google’s annual
online coding competition presents participants with a series of challenges that they must use their programming skills and creativity to solve. Programmers ready to match their skills against the world’s
best can register at http://www.google.com/codejam2006. The top 100 contestants win an all expenses paid trip to New York City to compete in the finals at Google’s New York Engineering Office.
“The Google Code Jam is an incredible opportunity for the most talented and fastest computer scientists in the world to come together and compete on an international stage,” said Alan Eustace, senior vice
president, Engineering, Google Inc. “Google is proud to support these amazing coders as they take on some of the world’s most challenging programming problems, and we’re pleased to have the chance to introduce them to our research and development offices around the world.”
“Google New York is very excited to be hosting Google Code Jam 2006,” said Craig Nevill-Manning, director, Engineering New York, Google Inc. “It’s an incredible opportunity to introduce the best of
the programming world to our New York Engineering office in downtown Manhattan and demonstrate the incredible diversity of experiences that Google offers engineers all over the world. If you can make it in Code
Jam here, you can make it anywhere!”
In addition to the trip to Google’s New York Engineering Office, finalists will also divide $155,000 in prize money.
The money is cool - but the job offer and stock options would be even better.
Technorati Tags: programming, google, google code, contest, google code jam
Podcast Academy is online as part of GigaVox Media
0 Comments Published by Chris August 10th, 2006 in General newsPodcast Academy has become part of GigaVox Media’s offerings and can be accessed at http://pa.gigavox.com.
Technorati Tags: podcast academy, podcasting, gigavoc, doug kaye, it conversations