Category: Business

  • Podcasts growing at 15% a month – FeedBurner report

    In a report on podcasting to be published today, RSS feed management company FeedBurner say that their service is now managing just under 45,000 podcast feeds. Contrast this number with the 6,000 podcast feeds the company was managing at the…

  • The next wave at work

    A report in the Financial Times on social media in the workplace highlights some terrific examples from companies who talk about the benefits to be gained from deploying blogs, wikis and RSS. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: […] More than 450 DrKW…

  • Funding for WordPress founders

    Matt Mullenweg, the man behind WordPress, has got a little funding: […] The growth of WordPress.com and Akismet has outpaced anyone’s expectations. Recently, I made the decision to sell a minority stake in the company to a few select partners…

  • Starwood blog misses the point

    Starwood Hotels & Resorts is the first major hotel company to make the leap into the blogosphere, says the Wall Street Journal, with a blog called TheLobby.com. But its initial approach to the genre has as much in common with…

  • It’s an opportunity not a threat

    A BBC story on the threat posed by blogs and bloggers to a company’s reputation includes mention of quite a few names – companies and bloggers – that will be highly familiar to many business bloggers. My favourite sound bites…