Friendster Launches Blogging Platform by Gavin O'Malley
SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE FRIENDSTER YESTERDAY announced
the launch of Friendster Blogs, giving its 16 million members a
platform to rant and ramble, buzz and bemoan, divulge, and divine to
their hearts' content. Friendster is betting that the blend of two
evolving Web trends--social networking and blogging--will placate the
fickle tastes and expectations of consumers in an extremely competitive
market. The underlying technology--which allows users to post and
archive their thoughts, pictures, and links as dated entries in
chronological order--is provided by San Francisco-based Six Apart, a
blogging software company, which offers a similar paid service by the
name of TypePad. CLICK HERE to continue reading....
by Gavin O'Malley, Friday, Mar 11, 2005 6:30 AM EST
IN APPRECIATION OF THE ADVENT of
both RSS and mobile Internet access, Yahoo! yesterday said it will now
offer users who have signed up for e-mail or other services access to
their personalized My Yahoo! headlines, including RSS, stock
portfolios, sports, weather, and My Email, through Yahoo!'s Mobile
Internet service. "This will allow the 20 million Americans using My
Yahoo! to take the customized news platforms they've created anywhere
their mobile phones can go," Scott Gatz, senior director of
personalization products at Yahoo!, said.
THE OTHER DAY I WAS reading one of my special interest e-mail
newsgroups and someone posted to the moderator of the site that they had
received a request for information from Topica, who hosts this particular e-mail
group. They were concerned because of the rash of phishing going on with fake
eBay e-mails, bank credit card e-mails, etc. [Read More!]
