WP.com now owned by Automattic
Automattic continues to make small new acquisitions to further boost their offerings.
They have now acquired the domain name WP.com from Yahoo.
They are currently redirecting WP.com to WordPress.com.
The developers behind the popular blogging platform are now looking for suggestions from their users for what to do with this brand new [...]
Websense has acquired Defensio
Web security service provider Websense has announced that they are acquiring Defensio.
Defensio is one of the few challengers of Akismet which provides blog spam protection services.
The financial aspects of this deal have not been revealed.
Websense said in its statement that they would now integrate Defensio into its ThreatSeeker Network.
They [...]
Twingly launches micro-blog search
Blog search engine Twingly has announced the launch of their micro-blog search service.
This search engine indexes content posted by users of micro-blogging services like Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Pownce, Bloggy and Bleeper.
Pownce is of course discontinued now but the archives are going to be available for the next six months. They [...]
Rafael Nadal blogs at the Australian Open
The latest celebrity to join the blogging bandwagon is the Spanish world number one tennis star Rafael Nadal.
Rafael Nadal has launched his blog at the Australian Open. He would be responding to questions from the tennis fans.
He said about the blog: “This is my first blog [...]
Kobe Bryant to blog for Sina.com
Los Angeles Lakers player Kobe Bryant is going to blog on the popular Chinese portal Sina.com.
Market sources say that he has signed a very lucrative deal with the chinese company for this blog.
Bryant is very popular in China where US basketball has a huge following due to the emergence of [...]
LiveJournal confirm job cuts rumor
Social media company LiveJournal has announced that they are indeed cutting some jobs in their operations.
The company would be cutting some jobs in its San Francisco and Moscow offices.
Market rumors had claimed that the company had sacked 20 out of 28 employees.
LiveJournal responded that the numbers are much lower [...]
Consumers Union acquires Consumerist from Gawker Media
Gawker Media has announced that they have sold their popular blog Consumerist to Consumers Union.
Consumers Union publishes Consumer Reports.
Consumerist would now become a new department for Consumers Union.
Kevin McKean, vice president and editorial director of Consumers Union spoke about this acquisition: “We don’t want to [...]
It becomes harder to blog anonymously in Vietnam
Vietnamese government has now made it tougher for bloggers in the country to hide their identities.
The government has now announced a new initiative that would force the online service providers to provide data on users.
Vietnamese government had said recently that they wanted to keep a tight control [...]
Kirk Douglas blogs on MySpace
Kirk Douglas is 92 years old but he has not given up. He has become the latest and perhaps the oldest celebrity to become a member of MySpace.
He is blogging!
Douglas spoke about the power of the internet: “I express my opinion, and I tell them that they don’t have to [...]
Google Blog Search now indexes full content of blog posts
Google has revealed that they have changed the way they index blogs for their Google Blog Search service.
Until now, the service used the feeds provided by blogs to index them. This was a problem considering some blogs just provide partial feeds.
Google has now updated their [...]
