I was lucky enough to be asked by the Sixapart team to post a guest list on Blogs.com. My list was titled Top 10 Web 2.0 Blogs and here is the list below.
Web 2.0 news from the Big Apple (NY). Allen Stern provides some great reading.
Fast growing blog reporting on everything from web apps to Bittorrent news. Great selection of reviews on the best web 2.0 apps by Insomnia Media.
Profiling some of the best web apps around. Look for more than 30 articles every day.
Orli provides the news of what is happen in Israel and surrounding countries, plus profiles only the best web 2.0 products.
Dedicated team who profile some of the best web 2.0 services available. Look for over 20 articles everyday.
Providing a Russian point of view on the world of technology by Svetlana Gladkova.
Insights into what drives web 2.0 services. Great indepth analysis from some of the best tech journalists on the web.
The best lists around! SmashingApps details a new list of the best services relating to a specific topic every week.
Insight into the world of social apps. Founded by Nick O’Neill.
One of Europe’s leading web 2.0 sources. TheNextWeb also has the best technology conference in Europe.
Technorati Media has finally launched their Engage (advertising marketplace product) live. Previously this new tool was in Alpha stage and only certain people could use the product. This all happened because Technorati purchased AdEngage.
Since purchasing AdEngage and launching Technorati Media I think Technorati has really lost sight of what their core business model is!
Technorati was a blog search engine that doesnt currently have really market share and presence and their product offering seems to be going down hill by the day. To compensate for this they purchased AdEngage and launched Technorati Media, which is just an ad network.
Looking at the current results from this ad network which has been in operation for several months, seem to be very poor. They are selling advertising for blogs such as The Inquisitr and Profy. The results seem to be as follows, for CPM advertising they are offering a decent CPM rate in between $1.00 – $2.00, but ads are currently only for the USA market and even then their fill rates arent 100%. For all other countries they suggest to use Google Adsense, which is fine, but unless you have a huge amount of USA traffic then this isnt really worth the effort, because what you make on USA revenues you lose on Google revenues elsewhere. In terms of selling sponsorships they also seem to be terrible, with The Inquisitr having 2 125×125 ad slots in the sidebar in which they havent even been able to sell 1 for a few months.
This is all about Technorati realising they dont have a search engine product that is any good, so they are looking for additional revenues streams which will help them eventually sell the company. Is that the way it is or am I wrong?
Profy is probably the first technology related blog I ever read. Since initially launched in September, 2006 Profy has built a loyal readership among startup owners, engineers, bloggers, investors, and general tech-savvy audience.
In the last few months Profy has been having problems keeping its authors, but since then Svetlana Gladkova has taken over the editorial status and the blog seems to be rising again. About three months ago Profy had a redesign and Im really liking the new look, except for the logo change!
Profy release about 3 or so articles per day and these articles are rich in analysis and also hot off the press when related to technology news. I would like to see them get some more authors on board and also incorporate the old green style back into the site. Additionally, they are not promoting the blogging platform they launched about six months ago. However, that all being said, Profy is one of the leading technology blogs on the internet, and it is a must subscribe!
With blogging clearly here to stay and experts predicting continuing growth, Profy enters the game today with the alpha launch of its new Web platform for bloggers. The integrated solution supports a full range of advanced AJAX blogging applications to satisfy the most demanding and experienced bloggers yet features a simple user interface that novices will find immediately accessible.
Profy’s vision is to provide single, comprehensive seamless access and friendly navigation for the many stages of the blogging process – news reading, sharing selected news stories with a group of readers, writing posts and publishing them, discussing posts with readers, and communicating with readers on other topics. In short, it wants to provide — in one place — all the creative tools a blogger could want. Notable among the capabilities are an integrated dashboard with full-featured reader making it easy for bloggers to follow important events, an advanced WYSIWYG editor that turns the publishing process into a snap, and social networking tools that allow authors to engage in discussions with readers.
Today’s launch kicks off private alpha testing of the platform with an initial set of tools and applications allowing users to read and write blogs, discuss created content, and network socially with readers and other bloggers.
“Through this launch, Profy is creating the opportunity for initial users to influence how the final platform will look and perform,†said Ilya Korsun, CEO. “Profy developers will work in close cooperation with users to ensure that when the platform emerges from beta it will provide bloggers of all kinds with whatever they need.â€
Crenk has an exclusive 100 invites for our readers. Head over to http://alpha.profy.com/getinvite and in the ‘Description’ field type the code ‘crenk’. Thanks to Svetlana over at Profy
This is a really interesting twist for a technology weblog to take and I would like to wish all the team good luck with the new project.
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