Simple blogging site TumblrTumblr will reveal its July stats later today, along with a claim that it is “taking over the world”. The site served 255 million pageviews in July, according to directly measured stats by third party analytics firm Quantcast. In August, Tumblr expects to serve 330 million page impressions, and is purchasing 5 new servers to cope with the demand. Other Tumblr stats are equally impressive: # 50 million visitors in the last 30 days # 650,000 posts per day (which equals 6 new posts per second) # 5,000 new users every day # 1.5 reblogged posts per second Read on at Mashable.com
Magazines have been a medium to contend with for years because of their influence over readers, large subscription bases, and their power to generate big advertising dollars. By maximizing these 3 advertising strategies you’ll begin the profitable transformation of weblog into web property… Read on at problogger.net
Colleen Padilla, a 33-year-old mother of two who lives in suburban Philadelphia, has reviewed nearly 1,500 products, including baby clothes, microwave dinners and the Nintendo Wii, on her popular Web site Classymommy.com. Her site attracts 60,000 unique visitors every month, and Ms. Padilla attracts something else: free items from companies eager to promote their products to her readers. Read on at nytimes…
You have insightful tweets, write amazing blog posts, and can make a viral video like it’s nobody’s business. So why don’t you have 500,000 followers, 50,000 views per video, and your own personal social media army? Read on at Mashable…
Mollom, a spam prevention tool that competes with Automattic’s Akismet, has blocked a stunning 100,000,000 spam messages from appearing on websites, social networks and blogs since the product was introduced about 14 months ago. Details…
A few days ago, we got a chance to talk about the state of blogging and social media in Germany with Marcel Weiß, the editor of Netzwertig.com – one of Germany’s most popular blogs. In the interview, Weiß told us that Germany is at least five years behind the U.S. when it comes to social media and its adoption by a larger part of society. Blogs are still considered to be suspect by a large part of the German public and have very little influence, and social news sites and aggregators attract very little attention. With regards to Germany’s Internet startup scene, Weiß argues that, with very few exceptions, most companies are also years behind the U.S. and just aren’t innovative enough to compete. Details…
A little over five years ago, sites like TypepadTypePad, Bloggerblogger and WordPressWordPress dazzled by empowering anyone to instantaneously share his or her thoughts with the world; My how times change. Today, however, in a world where thousands of status updates and tweets whiz by our screens every hour, blogging arguably feels slow. Details…
will reveal its July stats later today, along with a claim that it is “taking over the world”. The site served 255 million pageviews in July, according to directly measured stats by third party analytics firm Quantcast. In August, Tumblr expects to serve 330 million page impressions, and is purchasing 5 new servers to cope with the demand. Other Tumblr stats are equally impressive: # 50 million visitors in the last 30 days # 650,000 posts per day (which equals 6 new posts per second) # 5,000 new users every day # 1.5 reblogged posts per second
