White is the new black in blog design

Blog design has always evolved. Last year many sites embraced the "magazine" layout, a big shift from the traditional read ten posts down the page layout that was typical of blogs for a long time. In 2009 ... continue

2009 Will Be The Year of the Uber Blog

As we end 2008, the year ahead offers the biggest challenge ever in the history of blogging. Although blogging dates back to the beginning of the first dot com boom, it truly came of age as the second ... continue

RWW dumps Alt Search Engines (update: RWW blog network shuts)

UPDATE: The ReadWriteWeb Blog Network is being shut, see more below). Blogging network ReadWriteWeb has dumped the AltSearchEngine blog, the second blog launched by the network in June 2004. AltSearchEngines covers search engines, with a particular interest the hundreds ... continue

Bloglines fixed, and why they’re good for competition

Issues with RSS Reader Bloglines reported widely over the weekend have been rectified, according to a post on the Bloglines blog. The issues saw some sites failing to be indexed by Bloglines, limiting Bloglines readers in what ... continue

ReadWriteWeb tries something new with RSS ads

Despite years of talk, advertising in syndicated feeds (RSS) has never met the expectations once promised for it. In recent times, RSS advertising actually went backwards, when Google shut FeedBurner's native RSS advertising service, replacing it instead ... continue

Google Blog Search: so long Techmeme, and thanks for all the fish

Google has relaunched Google Blog Search today, taking the nearly forgotten service into a new realm: meme tracking. The new Google Blog Search takes some of the tech from Google News and groups blog posts into clusters based ... continue

The Next Social Networks Will Not Be Powered By Blog Platforms

Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb today argues that the next social networks will be powered By WordPress and Movable Type. She bases her conclusion on the excellent new release of MovableType that delivers a full social networking solution, ... continue

4% of Hubdub users think The Inquisitr will be acquired next (50% think it’s some other blog)

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What was hot on QBase last week

Collaborative open company databases are hot right now, and QBase continues to thrive. Joining The Inquisitr and Mashable in offering a Tradevibes' branded service is ReadWriteWeb, who announced their service today, so you get the combined wisdom ... continue