Six Apart Launches an Ad Network and Services for Bloggers

Published at April 21, 2008   Filed Under Advertising, Blogging   3 Comments  

Six Apart, the company behind Typepad and Movable Type launched a new ad network that will help bloggers. The new ad network will serve advertising for “Influential Bloggers” and “social media” sites. The advertising program is not limited to Six Apart bloggers but any one can take part in this. The backend technlogy for the [...]

BayWords: Pirate Bay Launches Free Blog Service

Published at April 16, 2008   Filed Under Blogging   2 Comments  

Pirate Bay is offering a new service called BayWords for users, where any one can start a blog with out worrying about copyrights and stuff like that.
Why BayWords?, Accroding to torrentfreak the idea came when one of Pirate Bay founders friend blog was taken down at wordpress.com. Baywords appears to be using Wordpress mu, [...]

Twingly (Spam Free) Blog Search Engine

Published at April 2, 2008   Filed Under Technology, Web 2.0   6 Comments  

Twingly is a new blog search engine currently in private beta. What is unique about twingly over others like Technorati or Google Blog Search is that twingly claims they are 99.99% spam free. That sounds interesting, becoz both Technorati and Google Blog Search have the spam problem, particularly Technorati counts all the spam blogs.

Announcing Indiblogr.com: Indian Blogs Aggregator

Published at March 9, 2008   Filed Under Technology, Web 2.0   11 Comments  

I mentioned here last week that i am working on a popular blog aggregator, finally i finished adding a few categories and blogs to it. The site is now live at Indiblogr.com. Feel free to suggest some new blogs, categories or criticism anything you feel like.
What is this site about, think of it as [...]

Popular Indian Blogs Aggregator

Published at March 3, 2008   Filed Under India, Web 2.0   10 Comments  

Image: Technology Blogs section
I am thinking to develop a site similar to popurls with Popular Indian Blogs from quite some time. After seeing Alltop i thought that type of site would be good. Let me tell you there is nothing great about these sites, but it is always fun to do something like this.

Disqus and Intense Debate: Better Commenting Systems for Blogs

Published at October 30, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   2 Comments  

Today Techcrunch posted (here and here) launch of two startups aiming to make blog commenting better. These are Disqus and Intensedebate, both of these do the same or almost the similar thing. They add a comment thread at the end of a blog post just like a blog comment form but with options like rating, [...]

Blog.gears: Blog offline with Google Gears and Blogger

Published at October 23, 2007   Filed Under Google, Technology   0 Comments  

Blog.gears is an offline Blogger client which allows users to write posts offline. This is very useful feature if you don’t have net connection all the time.
In order to use this feature you need to install Google Gears first. If you have Google gears go to Blog.gears and click on the link login, it [...]

New Blog Hosting Service Blogonize

Published at October 18, 2007   Filed Under Blogging, Internet, Web 2.0   6 Comments  

Blogonize is a new service for hosting blogs. It has a web 2.0ish interface with attractive colors.
It is pretty easy to create an account and updating blogs with blogonize. Once you are registered you can start writing your blog entries. It offers a WYSIWYG editor for writing the posts. Blogs are created as subdomains [...]