With a number of political candidates creating MySpace profiles, YouTube videos and Second Life avatars it appears that the Internet and web 2.0 technology are being leveraged for political campaigning. TechPresident, a project of the Personal Democracy Forum, launched recently to aggregate the activities of U.S. presidential hopefully on popular...

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IceRocket, a blog search engine that gets mentioned less and less in the blog search discussions, has begun to offer a new blog metrics feature which might attract bloggers back. Similar to BlogBeat, which was acquired by FeedBurner, IceRocket is offering blog metrics. Offering bloggers metrics might help IceRocket to...

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Earlier this week, chief executive and founder of Technorati, David Sifry released his quarterly, State of the Blogosphere report. David revealed that Technorati is currently tracking approximately 50 million blogs which means the blogosphere is still doubling every five to six months. This is pretty amazing growth and one would...

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The question "What is Web 2.0?" among other things was pondered recently by Mike Arrington with a number of startup CEOs and executives on a video filmed deep inside the Silicon Valley echo-chamber. Here are some interesting tidbits which were blended into the 24 minute video: TV is being eroded...

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David Sifry, founder of Technorati, offers some advice on breaking into the Technorati top 100 blogs list: 1) React quickly. 2) Make your posts easy to read. 3) Link, link, link! 4) Optimize for search engines. 5) Post, post, post! Additionally, I would recommend writing compelling content. Here is the...

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Technorati, the blog search engine, has made some changes to the way that they have optimized portions for search find-ability (SEO) in web search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com. Steve Rubel's recent post pointed out the new title being used by Technorati to catch the attention of a...

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Technorati has unveiled some new features in the Technorati Kitchen recently which adds microformat search to the mix. This means that you will soon be able to search contacts cards (hCards), events (hEvents) and reviews (hReviews) via Technorati. For more information on microformats you might want to check out microformats.org....

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Ask.com and Bloglines, which are both owned by Oakland-based IAC/InterActiveCorp, have added blog search functionality. I think the blog search results on Ask.com look better than that of Bloglines however, it turns out both Ask and Bloglines each has its own implementation of the same search functionality. The Ask.com blog...

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88Slide is a video blog or vlog produced daily by Rock Creek Park Productions which uses a sixty second format to convey a trivia question. Views can call or text message the answer to the daily trivia question and be entered to win a prize, usually a ten dollar gift...

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Technorati, blog search engine, has added yet another interesting feature today by rolling out additional reputation tracking features under the Blog Finder search. The new feature is a mashup of Technorati metadata, recent posts, authority statistics (based on links) and Alexa traffic information. To access the new feature visit the...

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Sphere, a blog search engine, finally launched today (May 2, 2006) after much anticipation with a new look and logo since first hearing about Sphere in October 2005. My first impressions was that it presents a very simple interface with a clean layout. The site was designed with the help...

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David Sifry, CEO and founder of blog search engine Technorati, has released a second part to his recent yet reoccurring State of the Blogosphere report focusing on the various languages of the blogosphere. Apparently, English is no longer the primarily language of the blogosphere as David Sifry states: "Something that...

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BlogBurst, a product by Pluck that repositions bloggers content for use by mainstream media companies, according to TechCrunch is said to be officially launching tomorrow (May 2, 2006). I first was demoed BlogBurst back in December 2005 and mentioned it publicly in February of this year. Since then the Pluck...

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Technorati already uses tags to assist find-ability in the real-time search however, as I viewed my Technorati Favorites today I noticed the interface changed to add a new tagging feature. The feature can be found via a new "Blog from Favorites" tab which displays your select favorite blogs. This information...

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Google has taken its recent acquisition of @LastSoftware which was snagged up with 3D dreams last month and offered it via download to the masses as Google SketchUp. This new version makes it easy for users to create 3D drawings of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - among...

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