All Posts Tagged With: "Social Networks"
UK Blog Visits Increased By 130% Over The Last 12 months
Hitwise, a web traffic monitoring company reported that visits to blogs in the UK currently account for almost 1 in 200 visits to all websites, up 130% on the previous year.The UK market is dominated by MSN Spaces and LiveJournal, although myspace is growing fast - up 500% since it debuted in the Hitwise ranks [...]
30Jul2005 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedI’ve Added Some New Features To My Blog
I decided to spend some time today adding some new features to my blog, I hope you like them and find them useful. So far I’ve added:
A Skype presence indicator from Jyve and I’ve also created a new Skype account just for this blog
Added Del.icio.us, Digg and Slashdot buttons to my blog. If [...]
News Corp Buys Intermix Media/Myspace.com For $580 Mill
News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, is buying the online company Intermix Media Inc., owner of the social networking site MySpace.com, for $580 million in cash.
At the same time it is being acquired by News Corp., Intermix is also buying the other 47 percent of MySpace.com that it doesn’t already own.
More on [...]
Citizen Vigilantism At Work
When I was first introduced to blogging by Alistair and Loic from Typepad, they demonstrated to me the power of blogging by showing how posts from their blogs about certain companies were coming higher in search results than those of the actual companies.
Surely more companies should monitor what is said about them in blogs to [...]
Exclusive! - Plaxo To Launch New Premium Suite
In response to my feature, questioning how networking sites like Plaxo were going to make money, Stacy Martin, Plaxo’s Privacy Officer, informed Connected that Plaxo will be launching later today Plaxo Premium Suite. Plaxo Premium Suite will include two additional premium services combined with existing VIP Support offering. The two new premium services [...]
21Mar2005 | Everton | 1 comment | ContinuedNetworking Sites - How Will They Make Money?
I’m constantly getting requests from friends and business colleagues to update my contact details on services such as LinkedIn, Plaxo, Bebo etc. Although I personally find these services useful I can’t for the life of me see how the site owners are going to make money!
Am I missing something here?
For example, Plaxo now has [...]




