People are always asking me how to be a blogging bigshot, and/or what will be the Next Big Thing in blogging. I don’t claim to have any very special expertise in that area, but I do have some thoughts. In fact, I have some thoughts that combine the two subjects.

Yahoo – the Internet´s most popular site and the recently talked about New Yahoo Search Engine, is apparently keeping a very close eye on the social networking space pioneered by start-ups such as Friendster and recent larger social networking experiments such as Google´s Orkut and the rumored Lycos overhaul. The Rueters news wire reported that [...]

“Part of the exodus has been partly AOL’s own doing. Through its relationship with popular portal Google, AOL has “alerted users to what’s existed beyond AOL,” said Jordan Rohan, an analyst at Schwab SoundView.

The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) today announced that Google, Overture, and GO TOAST have agreed to become charter sponsors of the new industry association. SEMPO is talking to other players in the world of search engine marketing about sponsorships to support the organization’s mission and provide the necessary funds for SEMPO to conduct [...]