http://jitendragupta.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/ Personal Weblog of Jitendra Gupta Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:29:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://jitendragupta.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-723 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:09:29 +0000 http://karmaweb.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-723 [...] The total number of blogs is increasing (we already were counting 80M). Technorati is now tracking 70M blogs. Below is how the growth curve looks and it is following [...]

]]> http://jitendragupta.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-107 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:45:42 +0000 http://karmaweb.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-107 [...] By our count there are already 80 million active blogs which means that the blogging trend is just about peaking already. AP report has more background on the basis of this prediction. Could blogging be near the peak of its popularity? The technology gurus at Gartner Inc. believe so. One of the research company’s top 10 predictions for 2007 is that the number of bloggers will level off in the first half of next year at roughly 100 million worldwide. [...]

]]> http://jitendragupta.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-106 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:17:12 +0000 http://karmaweb.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-106 [...] By our count there are already 80 million active blogs which means that the blogging trend is just about peaking already. AP report has more background on the basis of this prediction. Could blogging be near the peak of its popularity? The technology gurus at Gartner Inc. believe so. One of the research company’s top 10 predictions for 2007 is that the number of bloggers will level off in the first half of next year at roughly 100 million worldwide. [...]

]]> http://jitendragupta.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-77 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:57:04 +0000 http://karmaweb.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-77 [...] There are more then 50 million active blogs and community sites like Digg and Slashdot are more popular then ever. But how do on-line communities compare to real-world communities? Is it even fair to compare real-world communities to on-line communities? [...]

]]> http://jitendragupta.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-76 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:52:44 +0000 http://karmaweb.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-76 [...] There are more then 50 million active blogs and community sites like Digg and Slashdot are more popular then ever. But how do on-line communities compare to real-world communities? Is it even fair to compare real-world communities to on-line communities? In the real world, people in a community typically interact based on geographical proximity. In the blogoshpere its easy for users to join new groups without geographical limitations, as the cost of travelling or joining a community is typically zero. This makes people of common interest to band together much more easily. But because the cost of joining a community is zero, it reduces the community spirit as people can participate without investing much of their time, their money or their reputation. Let’s look at a couple of examples to further explore these differences. [...]

]]> http://jitendragupta.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-25 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:49:55 +0000 http://karmaweb.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-25 [...] I am not sure I understand what Six Apart is trying to do here? I buy that enterprise blogging is a big deal and that the blogs are going more and more mainstream (http://karmaweb.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/) but the driving force behind the blogosphere is really that blogs are more personal and are not typically encumbered with extensive enterprise controls. Enabling enterprise level controls for blogging is gonna make them sound like enterprise press releases which is just not going to be popular… [...]

]]> http://jitendragupta.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-22 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:48:57 +0000 http://karmaweb.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/identity-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-22 [...] Here is a shameless plug for our older post of the size of blogosphere (Jacob Nielsen’s numbers match pretty well with our numbers). [...]

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