What do bloggers talk about with a pint…

Last Monday, we presented a new book titled "La blogosfera hispana" (?The Hispanic blogosphere?, available in PDF and PDA), surrounded by deputies, senators, journalists, businessmen, many bloggers and with the presence of France Télécom. There…

How to make money out of blogs

This is a question that more than one person asked me during Blogak 2.0: ?Does your company create blogs?" So, what do you live from?? It?s normally assumed that blogs are free-of-charge webs that can…

Murdoch buys another social network

SimplyHired.com has followed MySpace. Rupert Murdoch, who nearly missed the Web 1.0 train, doesn?t want to let the 2.0 go without him and he?s bought another social network. The information is given by Enrique Dans,…

Most MSN bloggers are women

Most MSN Space bloggers are young women of around 18. This is what Víctor Ruiz comments in the Blogs and Communications Media Conferences (Jornadas de Bitácoras y Medios de Comunicación) in Granada, where I?ll take…

Bloggers’ female fans

When I still had acne, I remember being jealous of football players and singers; they were always surrounded by pretty girls: their fans. One day, when I was studying at University, I started to feel…

Mipasado.com, another social network

When a pay-to-use service becomes free, something is not right. It?s the case of Mipasado.com, a web through which people get in touch with ex-Uni or college mates that, until last month, required credit card…

Book about blogs

Lately, I see blogs everywhere and I am even starting to dream of them. The reason why I write this is because I?ve had the pleasure of taking part in a very exhaustive book about…

Wikis in the Financial Times

This is an interesting article by the Financial Times about the alternatives to the email, which has become a ?killer application?. ?We can?t live without it, but we can?t manage it properly either? explains the…

Do social networks work?

A couple of years ago Google created Orkut, a social network that started a fashion of this kind of tools. It gained users very quickly but it faded away at the same pace, except for…

Social networks and football

Google has been considering the future of Orkut for a while. It is a social network that was launched only in Brazil and Estonia, which are not very attractive from a commercial point of view.…