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Tags: CNET, CBS, blogs, acquisitions
[image from Mashable] CNET Networks, the company behind CNET, ZDNet, GameSpot.com, TV.com, CNET News, UrbanBaby, BNET, CHOW and Search.com, have been acquired by media giant and oldie, CBS fir $1.8 billion.
At first this would have sounded like a great big buy out that would rival Time Warner's acquisition of AOL or the possible merger of Yahoo and Microsoft, or the Google acquisition of YouTube. However, this comes as a diappointment to many people keeping tabs on the business side of CNET.
Leslie Moonves, President and Chief Executive Officer at CBS Corporation, said this about the acquisition:
“There are very few opportunities to acquire a profitable, growing, well-managed Internet company like CNET Networks. CBS stands for premium content and unparalleled reach, and CNET Networks will add a tremendous pla...more
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Tags: blogs
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch reported yesterday that his blog network TechCrunch will be losing one of their best writers today. Sure enough, Duncan Riley, Techcrunch's most prolific writer signed off from Techcrunch with his last post announcing his intentions and gratitude.
"This is my last post at TechCrunch as a full time writer (I may yet do the occasional guest post). It’s exactly 12 months to the day since I started writing here and the date seemed like a good time to go. I won’t bore you with a self indulgent retrospective; if you are interested in my reasons and thoughts I did a podcast with my old site The Blog Herald yesterday - listen to here."
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When Fidel Castro stepped down as president of the communist state of Cuba, his brother Raul took the helm. As part of the new leadership, Cubans are now allowed to own computers but internet access is still controlled.
The internet control however is not as absolute as North Korea but more stringent than China. This means that there is a huge black market and many bootlegging allowing Cuban bloggers to show the world what's going on inside Cubans' lives.
There are already a couple of blogs from Cuban authors making their way into the mainstream and gaining a lot of international support. One of these blogs is Generacion Y . The blog already has more than a million hit, mostly from ...more
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Tags: social network, blogs, life stream
MyBlogLog, a social network for bloggers has overhauled their users' profile pages to include aFacebook-like lifestream.
The Yahoo owned social network started as a widget and a little social network where you couldn't do much nor told you much except who was current;y reading your blog. Now however, they have put themselves in the lifestreaming arena along with Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter and these guys . Basically these services (now including MyBlogLog) keep you and your friends updated on mostly everything that's going on with you online.
The MyBlogLog feature is a whole lot similar to the Facebook NewsFeed. However, unlike Facebook, MyBlogLog includes updates from various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on De...more
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Tags: blogs
Ok, I've never heard of it before but still.. HORAY for BLOG DAY!
Here are the FAQ's:
What is BlogDay?
BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.
With the goal in mind, on this day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs. This way, all blog readers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, previously unknown blogs.What's gonna happen on BlogDAy?One long moment on August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post recommendations of 5 new Blogs, preferably Blogs that are diffe...more
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Tags: blogs, fake steve jobs, the secret diary of steve jobs
I've been hearing and reading about this all week.
As a marketing strategy, I'm impressed. It concerns moe though that now the secret is out, who'll be interested? Well, I guess the purpose is over and after Adam Lyons signed a book deal, that's good enough to call it quits.
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Tags: blogs, newsletter
Zookoda.com is an essential tool for bloggers big and small. It's a great way of promoting your site. Zookoda allows bloggers to promote their blogs with the use of professional email newsletters. You can control visitor subscriptions, email design and content, broadcast times and conditions, and real-time reporting when you use Zookoda. Now owned and operated by PayPerPost, which incidentally is the largest blog advertising and paid posting service providers around, the site is already enjoying quite a reputation among bloggers. Not only because the whole service is free but also because of the many options Zookoda has to offer. Among the things that you could do with Zookoda include managing email newsletter subscribers, enhancing your blog with custom newsletter subscription forms, designing eye-catching newsletters, and accessin...more
Tags: aggregator, music, videos, photos, blogs
Many online users got disappointed when Pandora.com stopped offering its web service for most users outside the U.S. due to licensing issues. Before that happened, Pandora was widely known as a premier source of internet radio, not only because of the quality it provides but also because of its known wide music base. A recently launched website is trying to fill in the void that Pandora's decision has made in world wide web. Aggrega.com launched its beta recently and almost instantly it has been declared as the “Pandora of music videos.” The basic idea of Aggrega is to enable users to create their own own music video channel, vote for videos they like, and be able to share their video channels on their websites, blogs, webpages and so on. The site has a recommendation engine that offers you se...more
Tags: social network, homes, houses, real estate, blogs, friends
Social networks encompass every walk of life. There are social networks or communities for almost anything anyone can think of. It's not surprising that there is one (or more) for houses, homes or dwellings.Home and Tell is first and foremost a social network. If Boompa features cars, they feature homes. hence everything revolves around building, decorating and maintaining houses and homes. Like any other social network, users sign up for a free account where they save their profile. For communities like Boompa and Home and Tell, users also upload and share an interest. In this case it's homes.
Users are encouraged to showcase their homes by making a tour of the whole house. The tour is made in pictuires so m...more
Tags: social network, fitness, blogs, friends
Working about and staining in shape si always a challenge that keeps many businesses alive. Online or offline, obesity and being out of shape is for many people a hurdle that they just cann'ot overcome alone. that's exactly why there are social networks and communities designed for the sole purpose of fitness.Gimme20.com is a health and fitness community that provides collabrative tools and support for achieving a healthy body and mind.
Members on Gimme20 get access to a lot of workout routines provided by other users and experts alike. These routines are found under 'Find a Workout' tab where workouts are listed and rated like items on digg. Of course these workouts are also classified by tags so searching and ...more
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