Technorati

Internet

Web 2.0 Trademark Flap Quiets

O’Reilly Media comes off a bad week in the tech blogosphere by allowing another conference to use ‘Web 2.0’ name.
Media, Internet, Finance

Index VCs Finance Last.fm

London-based online social network recommends music based on its users’ collections.
General news, Internet

Cuban Sells Blog Search Engine

Blog searcher IceRocket looks to get into advertising by joining online marketing holding company Think Partnership.
Internet

Spam Plagues Blogs

Ten to 20 percent of blogs are “splogs,” making real-time blog search a difficult task.
Internet

Semantic Web, Here We Come

A consortium of blogging startups wants to give deeper meaning to the Internet by giving people tools to categorize web pages.
Internet

Yahoo Buys del.icio.us

Portal provider snatches up tagging company to improve Yahoo's search engine.
Internet

Blog Service Offered for Free

Non-techies get access to the popular open-source WordPress tools via a hosted service.
Internet

AOL Nabs Weblogs, Inc.

Popular blog network gets a $25-million payday from AOL.
General news, Internet

Blogs: 900,000 Posts a Day

New blogs, and new blog posts, are growing geometrically, says Technorati.