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To be straight Blog celebrates 10 years from the day it was first launched. According to Wikipedia the term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. As for the "blog," it was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999.

There are several types of blogs. According to Wikipedia Media type blogs are: vlog, linklog, sketchblog, photoblog, tumblelogs, Phlog, moblog

According to the genres: political blogs, travel blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, niche blogs, dreamlogs, Splog, Slog

Technorati, estimates that there are 120,000 new blogs being created every day. Posts are being added to blogs at a rate of 17 per second - a total of 1.5 million per day, says the firm.

The importance of Blog increases day by day. Blogs carry different purposes. Some blogs are of personal character, others are a kind of tools that organize the communities of the same interests that many people have and share among them.

In 2004 Gov. Howard Dean was the first presidential candidate who made very effective political use of a blog. The campaign was the unique one as the result of all the efforts done by the blog was the raise over 50 million dollars and Howard Dean became the Democratic front runner until the primary elections.

According to the results of Technorati, it tracks more than 112 million blogs. While in 1998 there were about 23. So how many times greater is the number of blogs today in comparison with the result of 1998? It is about 486956,...well, sorry but I am lazy to write other numbers. One can see that the superiority level is huge. :-)

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Labels: Internet, IT

People interested in modern trends always seek news and try to be absolutely involved in the world of changes. But there are thousands of professional sites that serve the publics right to know. But different spheres are of different importance according to the interests of the users.

Posted by Julie Andghuladze at 10:27 PM | 0 comments  
Labels: Internet, IT

BBC – the largest broadcasting corporation in the world according to the audience number, employing 26,000 staff, launches the new device iPlayer. Among the products and services of BBC are: Desktop alerts, BBC News on interactive TV, E-mail services, Mobiles and PDAs, Podcasts from BBC News, and News feeds.

BBC Media & Technology division in partnership with Siemens works on this issue. BBC iPlayer will be a free catch-up service for UK license fee payers, says Ashley Highfield, director of future media and technology at the BBC.

Any program will be downloadable over the internet, the most surprising thing is that one can watch favorite program without advertising.

iPlayer has been tested on January 31, (15,000 people). Full coverage of market is expected in the Autumn. BBC is discussing MSN, telegraph.co.uk, AOL, Tiscali, Yahoo!, MySpace, Blinkx and Bebo as distribution partners. Programs will be able to use up to 30 days before the expiration time.

One of the most important advantages of the iPlayer is that it gives viewers ability to watch their favorite program when they want. Value added service always catches users attention. Now BBC viewers will be able to choose from different programs those which attract attention, have interest in. Feeling of convenience and comfort play main role in successful development of the new product.

As Ashley Highfield, director of Future Media & Technology, says: "Our vision is for BBC iPlayer to become a universal service available not just over the internet, but also on cable and other TV platforms, and eventually on mobiles and smart handheld devices."

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Posted by Julie Andghuladze at 9:52 PM | 0 comments  
Labels: BBC, IT, mobile

In the era of connectivity Nokia takes the leading position. Among Nokia Products are: Mobile phones, Multimedia computers, Mobile gaming devices, Enterprise Architecture, Networks, Wireless systems, Wireless data devices, Wireless voice devices, Wireless switching equipment, and now it launches a mobile newspaper in the palm. It will give users opportunity to view news updates in the native language.

Manorama Online’s chief operating officer, Miss Mariam Mammen Mathew says: "Currently Internet penetration is very low, especially in smaller cities & rural areas. Services such as the 'Mobile Newspaper' will ride on the larger penetration of mobile phones, and bring the Internet Revolution to the masses."

Nokia announces that is has partnered with different media houses and islaunching not only “vernacular news portal” but value added services in ten languages. The only thing the users need to do is to download vernacular news portal icon on their phones, send ‘MM’ as SMS to 5555.

Users of Nokia GPRS will be able to get news in different categories, such as: sports, travel, music, movies.

(Nokia 2626, 6233, 6300, 6131, N72, N80, and N95 are able to download the vernacular news portal icon).

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Posted by Julie Andghuladze at 1:03 PM | 0 comments  
Labels: Internet, IT, Media

Information technology, the sphere that goes through transformation stages and transfers the ways of communication itself, becomes of great importance. The value that obtains IT is increasing each day, and gives youth opportunities realize their abilities and strengths.

According to the research presented by Forrester teleconference, Laurie Orlov, vice president Forrester Research, based in Cambridge, Mass, says that "Enterprise IT is going through a metamorphosis. The career path is not as straightforward as it once might have been. You used to start as a programmer or operator and move up the ladder, and this is no longer the case”.

As each sphere, IT undergoes different levels of development, one can say IT does that the most intensively than any other one. According to eWeek CHANNEL INSIDER: “The previous enterprise IT path followed one of four routes. In the sourcing path, an IT professional moved from vendor administration and relations to sourcing contracts and ecosystem management. In the management path, the worker moved from project management to portfolio or IT line-of-business management. The innovation path took an IT pro from a business analyst position through process management and ownership to internal consulting. In the final, and often considered the most exciting path, the IT worker moved from entry-level tech up the ladder through integration to architect.”

These routes are not necessarily to be led separately. The cooperation of the routes will lead to more profitable exchange of values. As Forrester says “IT will be considered not so much a finish line but a gateway to other roles in the company.”

It is worth mentioning that the successful accomplishment of work or the development of IT sphere is not determined only by IT works, programming, but business analytical skills, too. There is no success without assuming events in chain.

IT changes too many things in the surrounding world. Though the Earth is of the same size as it was in the past, it becomes smaller and smaller, and why? Can you remember how many days it was needed to get information in previous centuries? Probably you do not remember, but probably you have read about that in the books of history or some other. Communication level has increased, the more we know, the more we do, the more chances we have. IT is no longer only the comfort or only the way of improved communication, it involves “integrating applications and managing business and vendor relationships, and has globally dispersed virtual teams. Most pertinently, the new IT professional works in a business, not IT context.”

There is no IT product without the content created by the human being. In the highly competitive world of communications, full of hard or soft news, informatiive or entertainment information, two sources are needed to be used, one working on technical side and the other on the content, but their cooperation is the bases of business in the broadest understanding of this term.

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Labels: Forrester, IT, Media