On August 26, BusinessWeek published an article with the curious title Japan’s Mixi Tops Facebook and MySpace. Of course, this is only true in Japan; Mixi has 15 million users - mostly in Japan, while MySpace boasts 150 million users globally. Mixi, however, wants to change that ratio.
The article begins by telling us about Asuka […]

If you’re blogging for your business (as you should be!), you’re probably always looking for more traffic and attention. This can always be difficult with business blogging, since there has to be a layer of promotion put on top of the actual blogging itself. Of course, some posts on a business blog can be well […]

Webpro News has an interesting post today on the topic of who retains legal ownership of blog comments. Although we’ve yet to see any blockbuster court cases centered on this issue, it’s only a matter of time before one comes up.
Webpro News spoke with Tyler T. Ochoa, a law professor at Santa Clara University School […]

Given the immense popularity of social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.is, Digg and Reddit, it’s somewhat surprising that the larger Internet portal sites have not made serious efforts at providing the same sort of socially-driven, crowdsourced nerve centers that could potentially create millions of daily page views - and the accompanying advertising dollars.
Google Bookmarks has […]

WordPress 2.5 was released 30 days ago, and its first upgrade, version 2.5.1, followed 27 days later. Because WordPress is one of the most (if not the most) popular blogging solutions for individuals and businesses who host their own blogs, this release has been significant.
The overhaul to the WordPress backend is extensive; it’s easy to […]