CategoryPro Blogging News

Phil has a post that got me chuckling a little. It’s called Get global – literally and it bounces off b5’s VC funding that we announced earlier in the week and mentions the way we as a founders team of four (Jeremy, Duncan, Shai and myself) are yet to meet. ...more

Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani writes a great post on her analysis of Bloglines as compared to the newly improved Google Reader. Has anyone else switched like Gina? Andy Wibbels (my co Six Figure Blogging presenter) is starting his latest course – Keyword Essentials (aff). He’s done a free preview call which ...more

Just a short post to point to some exciting news for me and the blog network that I’ve been a part of building over the past 12 months – b5media. Today we closed a deal with two Canadian VC companies (Brightspark and JL Albright) for a round of financing. You ...more

I just spotted the ad below running over at TechCrunch. It’s an AdSense ad (image ad) that is obviously being targeted to the blog it appears on as it quotes it’s blogger. I’ve seen a few people taking out similar ads like this over the past few months and suspect ...more

A couple of links today for workaholic work-at-home entrepreneurs: LifeDev writes an insightful post on the Myths About Working From Home Solostream has a good post on Strategies to Resolve Work/Life Imbalance

Thanks to everyone who has sent me email and IM to let me know that Google is updating it’s page rank at the moment. It does seem that there is an update under way from what I can see. As usual you can check your Future Page Rank here on ...more

WordPress have announced that they’re getting into VIP Hosting which allows some pretty major blogs to ‘piggyback’ on the back of their WordPress.com hosting infrastructure. Basically it’s for blogs that don’t want to use WordPress.com as a platform but who need reliable hosting for their blog. Here’s how they describe ...more

Techmeme has launched a new sponsorship section on their site in the last day or so. It’s called ‘Techmeme Sponsor Posts’ and is essentially a spot on their sidebar where three sponsors have the latest posts from their blogs show up with a title and excerpt (taken from their RSS ...more

Interesting post over at Steve Pavlina’s which takes up the question that I wrote about last week – How Much Is a Blog Post Worth? In the post Steve decides that posts on his blog are worth $2400 calculated over a 10 year life span. He calculates this by taking ...more