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PUBLIC MARKS from adfunk with tag blogger

February 2007

Almost 30 percent of Internet users tag online

Tagging, the emblematic activity of the “Web 2.0″ and social computing era, appears destined for mainstream status, a new study concludes. Among U.S. Internet users, 28 percent have tagged online content like blog entries, photos, Web sites, video clips, and news articles, The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports in a study released Wednesday. On any particular day, 7 percent of users engage in this activity to categorize and label material they upload or find on the Web. Justen Deal, a manager in Los Angeles who tags news articles on sites like Slashdot, believes that as the use of tagging increases, it will give blogging and the Web in general a significant boost by making content easier to organize and discover.

January 2007

Free blog submission Available at Bloghints.com

Popular blog web directory has been launched at http://www.Bloghints.com covering various topic in blog industries such as BLOG RESOURCES, BUSINESS BLOGS, COMMUNITY BLOGS and many more. The web directory owner Musab Hint explains, “Sense of a web directory to offer link listings for blogs as a part of link building and traffic generation campaigns. Usually blogs are submitted by Internet marketing managers and consultants who know all secrets of correct submission to web directories. But there are also website owners and webmasters who do SEO and web promotion work by themselves, and for them the blog’s topics are intended.

August 2006

Tech 2 Blog :: Extreme blogging takes off :: August :: 2006

Today’s adventurers no longer have to wait months to tell their stories. Now blogs recount every step of their journey as it happens, writes Fran Molloy. BLOGS from space? Why not, now that the internet is everywhere, giving even extreme travellers almost instant connection. Thanks to the growing number of expeditioners who are using blogs to chronicle their adventures, now the bravery, hardship and extreme challenges are just a click away.

July 2006

Spammers use images to avoid spam filters

Security software firm Sophos has published an updated version of its "dirty dozen" list of spam relaying countries. Among the main trends during the second quarter are image files that are used by spammers to dodge spam filters and a potential roadblock for the U.S. to reduce the amount of spam messages.