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Dot blog bubble

Oct 12, 2005

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in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

With all the mergers and acquisitions going on at the minute, it is only natural to wonder what the value of your site/blog is. I see Tom Murphy recently mentioned that Boards.ie was offered $750,000 for the site back in the original dot.com bubble but they turned it down. I wonder what it would be…

19% of small businesses using blogs?

Oct 12, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

BL Ochman reported today that 19% of small and medium businesses are using blogs as marketing tools: Nineteen percent of small and medium sized businesses report that they are using blogs as marketing tools. That’s according to Interland’s 2005 Small and Medium-sized Business Barometer. Given that the majority of the population still doesn’t know a…

Google launches online rss feed reader

Oct 9, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, RSS, Search Engines, Technology

In case you missed it, Google launched their online feed reader application Google Reader (in Beta) on Friday. Google Reader has an amazing interface built in Ajax and uses a “Lens” analogy for reading feeds. I can’t help but think though that the interface actually sacrifices usability for looks. The interface seems, almost, to get…

What exactly is RSS?

Oct 9, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, IT@Cork, RSS, Search Engines, Technology

Have you heard about RSS and wondered what exactly it is? Well in technospeak RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a family of XML file formats for web syndication. To put it more simply, the technology behind RSS allows internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds so that…

Cnet names its top 100 blogs

Oct 7, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Technology

Cnet today published its list of the top 100 blogs today – as expected Tom Raftery’s IT Views was amongst the top 100 – not! The list names all the usual suspects: Scoble, Engadget, Schneier on Security, et al. Some of the blogs listed, I hadn’t heard of before like TVOver.net (an IPTV and TV…

Do Google Ads make cents II – the sequel

Oct 7, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

As you may have noticed, I have started adding Google Ads to the posts on this blog, as well as to the blog itself. I took a look at the site stats, and decided which of the old posts receive the most traffic and I have added Google ads to these posts. Again, like the…

Blog for sale – apply within!

Oct 7, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

I see on Dave Winer’s blog that he has confirmed the rumour that he sold Weblogs.com to Versign – he neglected to say how much for! The rumour mill is putting a figure of ~$5m on it. Couple that with the news that AOL are buying Weblobsinc.com for somewhere between $25-$40m, and the news of…

Do Google Ads make cents?

Oct 6, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

I have finally added Google Ads to this site. Why? Well, when I hear that Jason Calacanis just sold his company for $25-$35m on Google Ad revenues of $1m annually, I decided I need to try doing something similar! So I figure, if I can get $100,000 Google Ad revenue, I’ll be able to sell…

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