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Lycos and Qumana Partner up for bloggers

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Lycos and Qumana, the desktop blogging client with contextual advertising integrated has unveiled a partnership. One of the things I really have enjoyed about Qumana is being able to recommend this to friends who use WordPress.com because this is the only way I know how to advertise on any WordPress.com blog. On top of that the folks over at Qumana are friendly and seemingly answer questions in a timely fashion. I’m excited to see how this partnership grows and helps bloggers make money, and utilize easy to use tools.

Lycos, Inc. (http://www.lycos.com), a leading media destination for creators and consumers of quality content, today announced a new desktop blog editing tool, powered by Qumana, making blogging easier and more profitable for bloggers everywhere.

With the new Lycos-Qumana Desktop Blog Editor (http://lycos.qumana.com), Lycos enhances the freedom of blogging, allowing users to publish to their Tripod and Angelfire Blogs on Lycos, as well as to other major blogging sites, from the desktop. Additionally, the Lycos-Qumana Desktop Blog Editor works with Qumana’s Qads, an integrated ad program, allowing bloggers to insert ads into their blogs, while revenue from these ads is shared with the bloggers.

“If you’re an active blogger, the Lycos-Qumana Desktop Blog Editor now gives you the ability to post to multiple blogs with just one click, extend your blogs further reaching more people, and make more money from your blog content,” said Alfred Tolle, CEO of Lycos, Inc. “With this new offering, Lycos continues to reinforce our strategy by offering content creators the tools needed to better showcase and market their independent content.”

Via Yahoo News

Originally posted on April 5, 2006 @ 1:00 pm

Six Apart unveils Widgets for Typepad

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Six Apart unveils Widgets for Typepad

Appears Six Apart has partnered up with numerous folks to provide ways folks can add content to their blogs, and also to make money with their blogs.

A lot of cool toys for beginners. Typepad explains:


‘What’s a Widget, you ask? It could be a list of your most recent photos, or a topic-oriented search box, or a stats counter, or ads that help you make money, or a badge to help your users subscribe to your feed, or even a Flash game or a chat window. We call it “bling for your blog.” We’re launching with dozens of widgets from more than 30 partners, and more are on the way. Here are just a few of the things you can do with TypePad Widgets:

* Add your Technorati profile to your blog

* Share a custom search roll with Rollyo

* Publicize your FeedBurner feed

* Let your readers find their next job from Jobster, Indeed and Simply Hired

* Highlight your favorite lens from Squidoo to your blog

* Let your readers subscribe to your blog via email, thanks to FeedBlitz’

hat tip: Darren Rowse

Originally posted on March 30, 2006 @ 1:52 pm

MySpace: Is it censorship or is it protection?

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MySpace has cleaned up its site in hopes of protecting its users. Deleting 200,000 users is that censorship or protection? I’m truly not sure. I will be pondering this for a few days. Luckily for us Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace wasn’t deleted.

MySpace.com, the fast-growing community website hugely popular with American teens, has removed 200,000 “objectionable” profiles from its site as it steps up efforts to calm fears about the safety of the network for young users.

The site, which allows users to create their own profiles with details of their interests that can be viewed and linked to by other MySpace.com “friends”, was acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp last year and its phenomenal growth has placed it at the centre of the media company’s internet strategy.

Ross Levinsohn, head of News Corp’s internet division, said some of the material taken down contained “hate speech”. Some of it, he said, was “too risqué”.

Via Financial Times

Originally posted on March 31, 2006 @ 6:41 pm