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May 02, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Blogs get some blast
Pluck formally introduced its syndication network promo service BlogBurst today.
"Several major newspapers, including The San Francisco Chronicle, The Houston Chronicle, The San Antonio Express-News and the Austin American-Statesman, are now syndicating and displaying blog content from Pluck Corpration's BlogBurst network," Editor & Publisher reports.
The service is said to be ithe industry's first blog syndication network, using a blog-powered newswire service.
In a second blast, Techcrunch reports the world of blogs just got smaller with Sphere, a new blog search.
Sphere follows in the footsteps of Feedster, Technorati and IceRocket, and Google and Yahoo, but is said to be "doing things quite a bit differently than its predecessors".
Techcrunch writes Sphere's "relevance" is based on: links in/out of blog; meta data around the blog (average length of posts, post frequency, etc; and a semantic analysis of the posts themselves).
See the Techcrunch post for the full skinny, and a podcast interview with Sphere CEO Tony Conrad and advisor Toni Schneider.
Posted by Mike Barton on May 2, 2006 01:15 PM
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It is great that Blogburst has picked more than 1000 blogs to promote in the mainstream media and I am happy that all of my 3 blogs including SouthAsiaBiz have been accepted by them.
Blogburst will surely take blogging to the next stage.
Mike, these are both highly interesting pieces of news to this blog network editor. I've blogged my positive response to BlogBurst and will add here that I also like Sphere. More competition for Mama T'rati is a good thing!
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