WWD Coffee Break – Weblogs, Zoho & Google

Screenshot10 Years of Weblogs – Today is the tenth anniversary of the date in 1997 that Jorn Barger (who is, amazingly enough, still updating the original Robot Wisdom weblog) coined the term “weblog” to describe what he was publishing on the Internet. Things have certainly taken off since then, haven’t they?

Of course, it’s always hard to pin down dates and numbers on the Internet, but when I started my first weblog in 1999, it’s safe to say there were only a few hundred of us in the business – and it wasn’t even a business. Now there are tens of millions, and some of them (like the one you’re reading now!) definitely are businesses. Here’s to the revolution in personal internet publishing, and its continued bright future.

Zoho Show 2.0 – The online office folks at Zoho have revised their online presentation tool, Zoho Show. New stuff includes a UI refresh, themes and shapes, master layouts, and integration with Zoho Chat for interactive presentations.

Knol – A Tease from Google – The Google Knol project has been all over the blogosphere in the last few days, despite the fact that most people writing about it (including us) haven’t actually seen anything more than one blog entry describing the project, which appears to be Google’s answer to Wikipedia. TechCrunch has perhaps the most balanced analysis I’ve seen yet, though at this point it’s wise to remember that this is all vaporware. For all we know, Knol might never actually see the light of the public internet.

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