The New York Times is now on Twitter.
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Web operating system
Ross Blake, the wunderkind who created Firefox, has a new company called Parakey which is believed to be working on a web operating system.
Four in 10 read blogs
Steve Rubel reports on research which claims to show that 40% of Americans are reading blogs now, while only 8% write them.
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Search is the answer
John Battelle recommends that MSN and Yahoo! should join forces to spin out a seach company which will concentrate on the monitisation of search.
Analyse sites by topic
Delexa.org is a web analytics tool combining the top 50,000 U.S. websites with their topic tags, using data from del.icio.us and Alexa.
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Buying blogs
Jeff Jarvis reports on New York Observer owner Jared Kushner’s purchase of political blog PoliticsNJ. He says it’s nice to see that there is a business in blogging, but thinks it odd that a mainstream media brand needs to buy a blog to play in the market. Hear, hear.
The most prolific bloggers
The Biz of Knowledge blog has a list of the top 1,000 most prolific bloggers.
Microformats
All about Microformats from Wired. A useful account of why building sites incorporating Microformats is a good thing.
Technorati Tags: microformats, web
What is working online
The skinny on which online properties are working and which are losing ground from PaidContent.org (quoting Avenue A Razorfish). Basically, portals are in, networks are out and verticals are doing OK. The bias is very much US and Big Site, but worth a read. And you can register to download the full PDF here.
MySpace news
Wired shows leaked screenshots of the Digg-style news pages News International is planning to launch on MySpace.