BlogWorld: The Challenges Ahead

The evening keynote panel from BlogWorld talked about the challenges their firms face, and how this might reflect on the general blogging world.

BlogWorld: All About Your Credibility

Credibility separates the wanna-bes from the somebodies in the blogging world, which makes building your online reputation a critical part of blogging success.

People Search is Getting Social

Wink.com says they’re the largest people search engine in the world. But to me, they look like a people meta-search engine, pulling their information from the web at large as well as from MySpace, LinkedIn and other people search engines. Now they’re expanding their site to include profiles. For once, the connection between a product (the people search website) and a social network actually made…

Microsoft Tries To Patent Conversational Closers

Can’t be bothered to type “goodbye” at the end of IM conversation?  That’s okay - Microsoft wants to do it for you.  The real kicker, though, is that Microsoft also wants to patent this practice.