Archive for March, 2009
NBA, NFL, NHL, EPL – sports league RSS feeds
For all you mad sports-mad folk out there, we have just added a whole bunch of news feeds on sports teams to our growing list of free RSS feeds.
So now we’ve got the US NBA, NFL and NHL teams feeded up (fed up?), along with the UK Premier League for all you footie fans (don’t forget the BBC’s football gossip widget).
Don’t see your team/league/sport? – Drop us a line via the feedback forum and we’ll take it into account next time round.
2 comments March 27, 2009
Analysis of blog platforms used by top 2500 blogs
In follow-up to the previous post, we thought it might be interesting to see what blog platforms are most used by the Web’s blogging elite. So we took the top 2500 blogs from the UGC Metabase and checked their <generator> tag, which (when present) tells you what blog software the author’s using. The results are compiled in the chart below.
A few notes regarding the data:
- The top 2500 blogs is based on the number of inbound links found in posts from other blogs over a 6 month rolling period, across a total index of ~250,000 blogs. This ranking feature is still quite fresh and a little coarse, but nonetheless we think it should provide for a valid aggregate view.
- There’s a noticeable lack of LiveJournal blogs in the top 2500, in fact we only counted 1. We’ll re-run this list in time and see if more start to come through. That said, seems none of Technorati’s top 100 blogs are published through LiveJournal so perhaps it’s just not a platform of choice amongst top bloggers.
- WordPress dominates, followed by Blogger, then TypePad/Movable Type.
- There’s no shortage of blog platforms out there, in total we counted 45.
- There are 509 feeds where we did not detect a <generator> tag. At the moment we haven’t looked into this further, if we gain any insight down the line we’ll update accordingly.
Some of the platforms included under ‘Other’: Community Server (18), FeedCreator (8), Nucleus CMS (7), Over Blog (6), Canal Blog (5), Subtext (3), Expression Engine (3), FeedForAll (3), Newtelligence (3), Subtext (3), vBulletin (3), Tumblr (3), Dotclear (2), GeekLog (2), Joomla (2), PidoLand (2), Reinvented Software (2), Serendipity (2), SkunkWeb (2), Text Pattern (2), WebMonkey (2), Yahoo Pipes (2), b2evolution (1), Blog Spirit (1), Blogware (1), Lemonz Dream (1), Liberated Syndication (1), LiveJournal (1), Microsoft Spaces (1). Radio Userland (1), Podomatic (1), Wordzilla (1), plus a few more.
Though we wont be working from a static dataset, it might be interesting to re-visit this in some months time and see if any trends are apparent – never know, maybe one of the smaller platforms will come through with some killer feature and eclipse them all! … (no, we don’t know what that would be either).
5 comments March 24, 2009
Moreover – Top 100 blogs
We’re pleased to announce and share with you the Moreover top 100 blogs, lifted from the UGC Metabase.
Blogs are ranked by number of inbound links from other blogs in the Moreover White List, an index of ~250,000 active blogs. We’ll be updating our top 100 in time as we grow the White List and refine the ranking calculations.
Where known the blog platform is given, with WordPress re-affirming its popularity, accounting for no less than 39 blogs (see Pingdom’s analysis of Technorati’s top 100 for comparison). The top two spots meanwhile go to CNET.
Moreover – Top 100 blogs
1 CNET News Daily Podcast n/a
2 The Web Services Report n/a
3 I4U News PHP-Nuke
4 Gizmodo n/a
5 Engadget Blogsmith
6 Tim Anderson’s ITWriting WordPress
7 TechNet Blogs Community Server
8 Digital Trends n/a
9 Kotaku n/a
10 Neowin.net / Main n/a
11 Search Engine Land WordPress
12 PhysOrg.com n/a
13 CrunchGear WordPress
14 TechCrunch WordPress
15 eWeek – RSS Feeds n/a
16 Cult of Mac WordPress
17 Gadgetell n/a
18 The Open Road n/a
19 Ars Technica – Infinite Loop Movable Type
20 Mashable WordPress
21 VentureBeat WordPress
22 Ars Technica Movable Type
23 TechAddress WordPress
24 MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors n/a
25 Startup Meme WordPress
26 The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Blogsmith
27 Joystiq [Xbox] Blogsmith
28 DailyTech News Feed n/a
29 Gawker: Valleywag n/a
30 digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular n/a
31 Gawker n/a
32 Joystiq Blogsmith
33 Macworld n/a
34 TechSpot n/a
35 Boy Genius Report WordPress
36 The Tech Report: News n/a
37 TG Daily – All News FeedCreator
38 Warp2Search.net Other
39 GigaOM WordPress
40 BloggingStocks Blogsmith
41 Techworld.com News n/a
42 DSLreports – front page n/a
43 Podcasting News WordPress
44 Today @ PC World n/a
45 The Microsoft Blog n/a
46 Apple 2.0 WordPress
47 NewTeeVee WordPress
48 TechNewsWorld n/a
49 GottaBeMobile.com Podcast Liberated Syndication
50 Buzz Out Loud n/a
51 mediabistro.com: TVNewser Movable Type
52 MarketWatch.com – Top Stories n/a
53 MarketingVOX – The Voice of Online Marketing n/a
54 Engadget HD Blogsmith
55 InfoWorld News Feed n/a
56 iLounge Expression Engine
57 Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim WordPress
58 MobileCrunch WordPress
59 Bits WordPress
60 Search Engine Journal WordPress
61 Ask Dave Taylor! n/a
62 Web User: Internet & Tech News n/a
63 Download Squad Blogsmith
64 SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Other
65 TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home WordPress
66 Gadgettes n/a
67 Profy WordPress
68 F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog n/a
69 Laughing Squid WordPress
70 Weblogs SL Other
71 Between the Lines WordPress
72 Breaking News: CBSNews.com n/a
73 MacInTouch n/a
74 Laptoping.com WordPress
75 The J-Walk Blog n/a
76 Pruned Blogger
77 CyberNet WordPress
78 CenterNetworks - n/a
79 Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim WordPress
80 gHacks technology news WordPress
81 Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise Community Server
82 TechCrunch WordPress
83 Lost Remote WordPress
84 Webomatica – Technology and Entertainment Digest WordPress
85 Statesman – Latest Business Stories Headlines Other
86 Liberal Democrat Voice WordPress
87 The Apple Core WordPress
88 The Mac Observer n/a
89 TV Squad Blogsmith
90 mathewingram.com/work WordPress
91 BoomTown WordPress
92 dailywireless.org WordPress
93 SitePoint WordPress
94 Bink.nu Community Server
95 GigaOM » FoundRead WordPress
96 ResourceShelf WordPress
97 Google Blogoscoped n/a
98 MediaFile WordPress
99 B R I G H T n/a
100 The Blog Herald WordPress
Add comment March 16, 2009
Adding Moreover RSS to IE7’s search
Here’s a tip for IE7 users (and presume ditto for IE8): Add a Moreover RSS feed builder straight to your browser’s search box:
1. Click the dropdown next to the browser’s search box, and select Find more providers
2. Enter the following URL in the Create your own section,
http://p.moreover.com/page?dh=earliest&wiz=2390512&query=TEST&r=1|2|3&relf=2&o=rss002
3. Hit Install - et c’est tout…
If you just want to link back to our search page instead of RSS, use this URL: http://w.moreover.com/public/free_services/rss_feeds.html?query=TEST
Add comment March 13, 2009
Announcing Newsdesk’s new newsletter tool
In pursuit of providing tools for sharing news and blogs across the organisation, we’re pleased to announce we’ve just released our new newsletter feature in Newsdesk. With newsletter you can create professional looking news emails for sending out across your company, teams and colleagues. You can set up scheduled newsletters to automatically email out the latest news and blogs, or you can send them by hand with your own inline editorial commentary and notes.
It uses a standard Web email interface like you get with Hotmail or Gmail. Combined with Newsdesk’s news and social media search it creates a compelling and powerful tool, easy to use and with an eye on removing the “manual” out of “manually intensive process”, as one customer described their current newsletter tool.
If you’re a customer reading this please contact your account manager for more details.
newsletter screenshot
Add comment March 9, 2009
