Told us that if you look carefully, you might see a new blog network about to launch.
Technorati Tags: blog network watch, blog+networks, blogmedia, erati
Originally posted on January 2, 2006 @ 2:43 am
Gadgetizer redesigned
Paul Short has flipped a switch on a new design for The Gadgetizer:
Well folks, I just flipped the switch on a brand spankin’ new Gadgetizer.com redesign.
It’s taken me 35+ hours over the past 3 days, but she’s ready for beta mode and she’s a beauty (in my eyes at least). And if you think it sucks, please tell me gently.
Originally posted on January 5, 2006 @ 10:17 pm
New Design
As you can see, our new design is in place. We’ll be doing some tweaking here and there later tonight and then we’ll be all settled in. So far, though, things look pretty good!
Originally posted on January 11, 2006 @ 6:42 am
Monetizing Sites
Patrick has some thoughts over at his blog about monetizing sites:
Recently, I have adjusted the ads on my sites in hopes of earning more. This has included the introduction of ads on the left side of just the index and forum pages (no other pages, no topics, etc.) on SportsForums.net, KarateForums.com, the phpBBHacks.com Support Forums and PhotoshopForums.com. I adjusted current ads, added new ads and removed others. Overall though, it’s a small increase in ads. The focus was taking AdSense out of my chain and giving it spots of its own, more often than not. So, this is a small decrease in AdSense impressions and an increase of impressions to other networks, like Casale, BURST!, FastClick, Mamma, RightMedia and Hurricane Digital Media.
It’s all about experimentation and that’s what I am doing. Anyway, these ads on the sides, they aren’t bad. They are just ads. I keep myself busy. Ads don’t really bother me as I don’t really like to waste time worrying about them. If they are really noisy, they try to make me download something, or they spawn a popup when you close them, that’s the only things that bother me. Otherwise, cool. Ads need to be on websites.
Originally posted on January 12, 2006 @ 8:34 pm
Syntagma Media launches Vista Office
As previously announced, Syntagma Media has now launched Vista Office:
Our newest blog, Vista Office, is now live.
Vista Office will “watch” the new product offerings from Microsoft due for release in 2006. These include Windows Vista and Office 2006 (codenamed “12″).
Originally posted on December 31, 2005 @ 4:59 pm
b5media launches Simply Thrifty
b5media launched Simply Thrifty:
Simply Thrifty covers how to “live simply, wisely, and with frugality. Simply Thrifty is a blog that appreciates the important things in life.” Practically it talks about everything from how to save material and money on clothes to how to get free education to how to save money at Christmas, on your heating and lighting and all kinds of other things.
Originally posted on January 7, 2006 @ 11:55 am
Performancing scores two interviews
The first, with John Battelle of Federated Media Publishing:
Q. For those readers not familiar with FM Publishing, can you tell us in a nutshell what it is, who it’s targeted at and what makes it noteworthy?
Federated Media (we call it FM) is something of a mashup of business models, all of which exist to support what might be called “talent” – think of the music labels, agents, book publishers and the like, but without the evil approach to intellectual property rights. Federated is a service business that partners with authors of great websites to bring them services and revenue. From our overview (not yet up, but soon): WE SELL ADVERTISING, indeed we do.
But that’s not all we do. At FM, we believe great voices attract great audiences. We’re in the business of supporting those voices, by both connecting them to great marketers, as well as providing a suite of services that let authors focus on what they do best: make compelling media. In doing so, we hope to create federations of respected voices which prosper on their own terms.
We have a platform (in limited alpha right now) that connects marketers with great authors, and we focus on the human side of it – making sure that it’s a great fit. So far, we have about 20 sites in the network, with another 20-30 in the works to join over time. We are creating category clusters for the marketers, and meta sites for audiences. But we are not telling the authors what to write, how to design their blogs, or what to do in general. We are providing them with services that will help them make their sites better, if they care to use them (for free). And all advertising must first be approved by each author before it runs. That’s why our tagline is “author-driven”.
The second, with Nandini Maheshwari, the CEO of Instablogs:
When Instablogs launched it received a great deal of criticism from various people (probably in part because they had very high, even unrealistic, expectations). What advice can you give bloggers and blog network owners in reference to dealing with criticism (seeing as it is inevitable)?
I honestly believe criticism helps you to improve. In fact we faced some pre-launch snags that somewhat diluted our initial claim of hitting the blogosphere with 50 blogs. But that’s an old story now. We have moved on from that stage. Our blogs are now getting regular links from A-list blogs. We have managed to become a part of the online community. People have accepted us. They like our stuff. Now our traffic is going up and up, everyday.
My advice to new bloggers and blog network owners is take criticism in your stride, because criticism will help your blog(s) establish better be it through good advices or the invaluable links that you get in the process.
Technorati Tags: blog network watch, instablogs, johnbattelle, performancing, fm
Originally posted on December 30, 2005 @ 11:18 pm