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Tag: blogging
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Ghost vs. WordPress: A Purist Blogger's Dilemma
Ghost touts itself as a “simple, modern WordPress alternative.” And that’s true, to an extent. While Ghost, which claims a "virtual" headquarters in Singapore, focuses solely on the blogging process, San Francisco-based WordPress has evolved into something far greater than just a blogging platform.
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Medium Lands $57M, Promises to 'Think Big'
San Francisco-based Medium — the poster child for User Generated Content — just got $57 million. The Series B round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with "significant participation" from Google Ventures and Greylock Partners, the company announced on its website. The funds are in addition to the $25 million
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2014 Action Item: Did Marketers Master Blogging?
We've all seen company blogs dash out of the starting gate like an Olympian sprinter. Then it's a slow jog. A walk. A crawl. And, finally, a death. It stops entirely, and your latest blog post is from the days of the Bush Administration.
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Storify Teams Up with Adobe's Typekit
Curating news and social media tidbits with Storify is a handy way to create sharable, engaging Web content, and now the company has partnered with Adobe's Typekit to give that content an added dose of style. Customization Worth the $$$ Integrating with Typekit will give Storify Business customers a way
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Confirmed: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
Yahoo has announced that it will acquire Tumblr in a refreshingly honestly press release that states "Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business." Yahoo Gets Social, Finally After all the excitement of a possible social media buying war last week, it looks
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Can Mobile Apps Eliminate the Need for Blogging?
You may have noticed an interesting trend recently. As the popularity of visually engaging sites such as Pinterest and Instagram rise, and many mobile apps with user-generated content continue to launch, users are choosing to share on these sites rather than creating blogs.
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Tumblr Adds Adverts to Mobile Feeds, Tapping into Revenue
With just about every report showing a boom in mobile advertising revenue, that blissful serenity when viewing Tumblr blogs on iPhone or Android is now being blighted by adverts, but not too many to turn users off.
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Now Tumblr Loses Friend-Finding Feature Via Twitter
As Twitter does more to secure its APIs and market share, as well as compete with rivals, another service has lost the ability for its users to find their friends using the micro-blogger's userbase.
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Interview: Nicolas Antonio Jimenez Discusses Widen's Move to Content Marketing
All businesses struggle with the question of what works in marketing. To hear how one organization made the decision to switch from traditional marketing tactics to a content marketing focus, we turned to Nicolas Antonio Jimenez of Widen.
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Never Mind Microblogging, SharePoint Needs to Support Plain Old Blogging
In case you missed it, Microsoft bought Yammer. We await the results of this acquisition within SharePoint (we might be waiting some time), but it is certainly a clear admission that SharePoint doesn’t currently do "social" very well.
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Navigating WordStream's Internet Marketing 150
Forget the Magic Quadrant, and say hello to the internet marketing map. WordStream, provider of best-in-class search marketing solutions, has released its 2012 Internet Marketing 150, which compiles the top software and SaaS providers currently doing business in 10 major business categories.
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WordPress Dominates Top 100 Blogs, Looks to Expand
In its own blog on blogs (metablog?), Web monitoring company Pingdom is reporting the results of a study with news that WordPress is used by 48% of the top 100 blogs worldwide. The group increased that number 32% since its last study in 2009, Pingdom said.
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WordPress Targets Nook, Kindle Fire Tablets With Latest Upgrade
The two top-selling tablets (after iPad), the Nook Color and Kindle Fire, just got a blogging boost from WordPress, the first name in web log hosting. The company announced on its blog yesterday an update to its native Android App (v.2.0.
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WordPress is Powering 14.7 Percent of Top Global Websites
Matt Mullenweg, founder of the WordPress web publishing platform, took the stage at the recent San Francisco WordCamp event to share the state of the WordPress union. A key figure: WordPress is now powering 14.7% of the top one million global websites. There's more.
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