Tuesday, 23 October 2007

1st entry... Blogging

Well, a bit of a delay in getting my research notes up and running... but here they are!

So, Blogging (Blog = short for weB LOG)... has become a bit of a phenomenon, infact its so good I'm using it to keep track of my research!

Blogging... popular applications on the web that are generally used as a social "updating" amongst friends or for subjects of interest... (Blog = short for weB LOG) For example:

On a social networking site, a blogger may post that they are having life troubles and they need advice from their friends (blogs usually have a comment function). Or, say on a software development site, the admin may create a blog as more of a news feed, to keep users that are waiting for a new release of software up to date on its progress.

Some examples of successful blogging sites...
http://www.blogger.com/ (the one you're on now...)
http://www.livejournal.com/
http://digg.com/ (a little bit different, has a ranking system for entries)

It should also be noted that Blogger, (this site) makes the API they use for running the site avaliable for users to download and run on their own webservers.

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