Technorati has been an icon of the blogosphere since Dave Sifry began the company to track blogs and provide bloggers with statistics and search.  It was the first thing people downloaded to their blogs, and the first part of setting up a blog.  They seem to have lost that celebrity status.  There are so […]

I have been thinking about the comment left on my post about Blog Talk Radio and their attempt at monetizing their application.  Then I read today over at HipMojo the article about why companies that are basing themselves on ad revenue will fail.  It helped me formulate my own opinion about how companies in the […]

I have been preaching to people as long as I remember that “We live in a Google World.  I happened upon a post today by Owen Thomas (no I’m not a Valleywag reader, I thank Techmeme) about Google and its global market share.  He refers to a chart done by Efficient Frontier Insights showing the […]

We all know at some point Facebook will be given a value.  If not just for the purpose of a price tag for the moguls out there to aspire to achieve.  It seems that the Wall Street Journal believes that price may be $10Billion or more.  The article states:
Microsoft’s approach to Facebook in recent […]

I can remember the first time I had my name appear in the phone book after I purchased my first home.  Like Steve Martin in the movie “The Jerk”, I danced around and shouted, “I’m somebody now”.  Back then of course, I think computers were something in sci-fi movies, and the Internet had not […]

At least in our company, we get most of our client’s through Google searches done by companies looking for a blogging consultant or looking to hire a blogger for their company.  I ran through our client list to see the number of companies that have contacted us to provide a professional blogger or to […]

In the early part of 2005, I became a member of a social network called Soflow.  This social network was an early vision of its founders.  They could see the future and power of growing one’s profile and gathering contacts for business, and other benefits.  I thought that it was such a good idea, […]

I was reading Anil Dash’s post today about the launch of Moveable Type 4. My blog life was born using the Moveable Type Platform. At the time I began blogging, I was of the opinion that MT was the one and only platform for me. It was the choice of many of the top bloggers […]

Tris and I had a great time talking about how a business or individuals can get into blogging. We talk about the very basics and things to think about and tips on how to get your company up and blogging.
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It is being widely reported, or actually Twittered, that DoubleClick has been purchased by Google for $3.1 Billion today.  That is a significant sum, and I think a good purchase by Google.  Tris and I both contribute to Business Blog Consulting, owned by Rick Bruner.  Rick works at DoubleClick and we congratulate him on the […]