Neowin News Feed for: Blogging

Google is seeking to improve search results by preventing unoriginal content

Anushe Fawaz — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:38:01 +0000

Google has announced that it is updating its search engine by focusing on promoting original content and authentic product reviews to avoid users from getting irrelevant search results. Read more...

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Wordpress.com Business plan users now have access to plugins and third-party themes

George Karmpoulonis — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 22:22:01 +0000

Automattic announced that users with business-level accounts on the popular WordPress.com platform can now install plugins and third-party themes built by the WordPress community. Read more...

Facebook is revamping Notes; allows you to host a blog on Facebook

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 16:34:01 +0000

Facebook's Notes feature has been mostly invisible to consumers, but the company is revamping it to provide what seems to be a blogging platform, hosted on Facebook itself. Read more...

Microsoft: 'We are going to open-source Windows Live Writer'

Andy Weir — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 11:52:01 +0000

Microsoft's Scott Hanselman has unambiguously stated that the company still plans to open source its Windows Live Writer blogging software - although it's not clear exactly when this will happen. Read more...

Google to ban sexually explicit content and nudity on Blogger

Jerry Grey — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:10:36 +0000

In a new policy, Google will ban images and video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity on Blogger, but will still allow artistic, educational, documentary and scientific nudity. Read more...

Intel imposes self-censorship in response to strict Russian laws for journalists and bloggers

Jerry Grey — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:30:01 +0000

Intel has imposed self-censorship on its bloggers in response to new Russian laws, which requires journalists and bloggers to register with the government and restricts what they publish. Read more...

WordPress 3.8 is released and available to download

Razvan Serea — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:17:21 +0000

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Read more...

WordPress 3.7 Final

Razvan Serea — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:18:06 +0000

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Read more...

Ghost blogging software is now available

Razvan Serea — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:24:25 +0000

Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do. Spend less time making your blog work and more time blogging. Read more...

Yahoo acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:18:32 +0000

It was just announced that Yahoo has bought Tumblr for approximately $1.1 billion dollars, close to what earlier rumors had predicted. Tumblr is one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world Read more...

WordPress 3.5.1 is available for download

Razvan Serea — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:28:49 +0000

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Read more...

WordPress 3.5 is available for download

Razvan Serea — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:05:46 +0000

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Read more...

WordPress begins to accept Bitcoins as a currency

Paul Ferson — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:50:38 +0000

WordPress has added functionality today, allowing bloggers across the world to pay using the digital Bitcoin currency while side-stepping issues such as PayPal being unavailable or limited. Read more...

WordPress 3.4.2

Razvan Serea — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:43:26 +0000

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Read more...

WordPress 3.4 is available for download

Razvan Serea — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:36:37 +0000

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Read more...

Tumblr moving to paid advertising

Stefano Elia — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:41:16 +0000

The micro-blogging website, tumblr, has announced a somewhat controversial move to switch to paid advertising. Read more...

Posterous acquired by Twitter

Owen Williams — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:03:56 +0000

In a somewhat surprising move, Posterous has today announced that they have been acquired by Twitter, in what appears to be a move to acquire Posterous' talent rather than technology. Read more...

Posterous secures $5,000,000 in funding

Paul Ferson — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:43:53 +0000

Micro-blogging platform Posterous has secured a considerable amount of funding via numerous investors, after its most recent redesign. Read more...

The 'AOL Way' strikes again? Ross Miller leaves Engadget

Brad Sams — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:18:24 +0000

The recently leaked document, the “AOL Way”, seems to be causing more public outcry than CEO Tim Armstrong probably ever intended. It was not long after that document made headlines that staff at Engadget, one of... Read more...

Tumblr now back online after being offline 24 hours

Kelly Hodgkins — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:18:41 +0000

Sweet relief everyone, Tumblr confirmed that it is now back online and all blogs on the service are up and running again. For those that have been living under a rock, Tumblr went down on... Read more...

Windows Live Spaces, now powered by Wordpress

Brian Donohue — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:17:43 +0000

Rather than continuing to push its currently limited blogging platform, Spaces, Microsoft has partnered with Automattic to provide Wordpress.com blogs to all Live Spaces users. Craving expandability and better spam protection, the Live team chose Wordpress... Read more...

Microsoft's CES 2010 Keynote Live Blogging

Sean Bradford — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:19:56 +0000

Today Microsoft will kick off CES 2010 with a keynote speech by CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, President of the Entertainment & Devices Division. Neowin has a team that will be attending the keynote... Read more...

CES Day 3 Live Blogging

Brad Wardell — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:47:50 +0000

Another busy day at CES. The purpose of this article is to talk about the kinds of things you probably won't hear about at other news sources. Bushnell is... Read more...

Firms sign blogging 'self-discipline' pact in China

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:57:58 +0000

Yahoo China, MSN China and other blog providers in China have signed a code of conduct for their blogging operations that committed them to protecting the interests of the Chinese state. The pact ask the... Read more...

Horizon Blogging Software v1 Released

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:56:15 +0000

The Edge Drive development team has released Horizon Blogging Software version 1.0 today. This release features their new skinning engine, AJAX capabilities, and a re-written Administrative Control Panel. Horizon Blogging Software version 1.0 has taken... Read more...

Horizon Blogging Software beta released

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:20:32 +0000

As expected, Edge Drive has released Horizon Blogging Software 1.0.0 Beta 1. With the release, they've added tons of new features included a re-written main back-end and a theming system. Most importantly, this wonderful piece... Read more...

Horizon Blogging Software 0.0.4

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:33:09 +0000

Are you sick of Word Press? Do you want a new and free blog software? If so, you may want to think about the newly formed Horizon Blogging Software. Horizon Blogging Software is simple yet... Read more...

China's Blogging Population Reaches 20 Million

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:55:45 +0000

Over the course of the 2006 year, the Chinese online consumer market grew a whopping 47%, in comparison to 2005. Compared to 150 yuan in 2005, Chinese web surfers are spending an average of 170... Read more...

Gartner predicts end of blogging hype

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:17:00 +0000

Blogging will peak in 2007, Gartner predicts, levelling off when the number of writers who maintain a personal website reaches 100 million.Gartner analysts expect that the novelty value of the medium will wear off as... Read more...

Word 2007 to Feature Built-in Blogging

Fri, 12 May 2006 21:22:02 +0000

Joe Friend has posted a rather interesting entry on his site, covering Microsoft's Office 12 Blog feature: Stop, don't jump to the end of this post to push the comment button yet. I'm not an... Read more...

Yahoo tests blend of blogging, networking

Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:16:28 +0000

Yahoo Inc. is preparing to introduce a new service that blends several of its website's popular features with two of the Internet's fastest growing activities — blogging and social networking. The hybrid service, called "Yahoo... Read more...

Blogging : Gateways For Paedophiles?

Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:11:54 +0000

A recently published paper has brought much needed light to a rather ugly element of the internet : child abuse. The paper looks at a generation of youths brought up with online weblogs and the... Read more...

MSN's New Blogging Service On the Way?

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 03:04:50 +0000

Microsoft's MSN division is expected to take the wraps off of its MSN Spaces blogging service this week, according to sources close to the company. MSN is expected to tout MSN Spaces as a direct... Read more...