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I've began migrating my above average post from http://seigey.blogdrive.com/. The process will take a while but it'll be worth it, it's a waste to all the time and effort wasted on permalinks and page rank but this is how it should be in the end.

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BlogDrive Plain Text Editor (self made)

*Updates* Blogdrive fixed the Plain text editor.

Since Blogdrive's PTE isn't going to be fixed anytime soon, I've decided to write up my own fix for it since I can't use the greasemonkey fix that was created by Xr.

Here's the link and features surrounding it:

1) URL is similar to that of blogdrive

http://design.blogdrive.com/manage/blog_entries?big=123456&pid=
http://www.blogdrive.com/manage/blog_entries?bid=123456&pid=

2) includes Extended Entry and Keywords.

3) behind the scenes features: dates automatically changes to current time

4) behind the scenes features: BID/PID auto updates from the URL.

5) behind the scenes features: inserting images in old fashion.

6) Not able to call up your previous entries contents. It does not enable editing of previous entries however it allows you to REPLACE it.

7) I tried to include Amazon affiliate thing to this, but I realised there's a server indifference here that disallow variables to be passed through. So I have no choice but to disable it.

So, there you go.

Will Blogdrive be bought up by Media Giants?

In the previous year, we see lots of small startup or small companies being bought up by big media giants to be key players in their industrial roles. Sites such as blogspot being acquired by Google and hotmail acquired by Microsoft.

Not that I want BD to be sold to other parties, but it's an interesting speculation.

Here's an interesting read on what Hungry Media giants are looking for in small companies:

Also of interest are sites that allow people to play casual interactive games; store, send, manipulate and print photos; build and store blogs; and research and shop for big-ticket items like cars. Also eliciting interest are "next generation" Web sites, like those focused on allowing people to search the universe of blogs more effectively.

The media companies' interest has to do with the continuing shift in the ways Americans consume entertainment and shop. Just as the advent of cable television carved up a once-concentrated block of network TV viewers, so has the Internet — with its literally millions of Web sites — created highly fragmented niche audiences.

For big companies, the key is to build or buy Web sites that attract those niche audiences, but in substantial numbers. For a Web site to pique the interest of mass-market advertisers, it needs to have at least a million unique visitors a month; to be considered a major takeover candidate, it needs to have five million unique visitors, said Sharon Wienbar, a managing director with BA Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm that invests in Internet content companies.

Note: Photobucket was mentioned in the article. Seems like Photobucket's most valueable asset it's their user base.

Tags: blogdrive, photobucket, internet, media, companies,

BlogDrive Jumping on the Bandwagon

A few months ago, or rather one year ago we were seeing the quick boom of online social networking websites. First there was friendster, or some other companies like myspace, zorpia, hi5, ringo, facebook, bebo and many many others, I'm not even sure which one appear first but they all just sprung out of no where trying make their mark in the boom.

As far as I know, Friendster and Myspace are among the most popular social networking websites available. It is estimated that friendster may have over one billion users account, while Myspace claims they serve up to 10% of the entire internet's advertising. That's one very brave and bold statement to make.

In the past (in the web 1.0 period), there were different types of online community websites. They are mainly separated into several types: Blogs platforms, Social Networking, photo sharing/hostings, Music Sites, Forums. As each of these website develops, they started to attempt to synchronise each of these different types of websites into themselves. In the hope of gathering more users.

One of the very first social networking that did this was Zorpia, where many of it's ideas came from developing a photo sharing community, and Xanga (a journal type website) and social networking (friendster based). Not long after the idea became realise as a brilliant way of providing more features to their users and extending their userbase, Friendster acquired typepad (blog software) as their default bloggint tool. Myspace choose to develop their own blogging feature as well.

These are the big giants in the pioneering business of the new way of life.

The bigger giants started to jump in the bandwagon, Google acquired BlogSpot, Yahoo did 360 and MSN did MSN Spaces.

So what we'll be expecting to see in the very near future is a portal based on a combination of these:

Blogs + Social Networking + Photo/Music/Video sharing + Instant Messenger + Forums.

Of course, the giants that have the bigger advantage over other
companies in the long run due to their wide IM userbase, such as
Google, Yahoo and MSN.

BLOGDRIVE

In the way the direction of internet business is going, it makes sense that BD will probably be introducing more features to satisfy their users needs. Such as music hosting, video, networking, personal profiles and many more. It has been revealed, somewhat that videos are coming out? And that they are researching on Myspace, going into networking kinda thing.

We'll be expecting to see new features on Blogdrive. How soon I don't know but I'm excited to see the new features.

Hopefully we'll get to see some Personal Messaging thingy too.

Read about Hungry Media Companies find a Media Menu for websites to buy.

Next entry: How Friendster succeed in their business model and why?

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Photobucket partnership with BlogDrive confirmed

In my previous entry I revealed that there are rumours that BlogDrive are going to integrate photobucket into it's entry. The rumour has come true.

Well now you can add your Photobucket images to your entries without ever leaving Blogdrive, from inside your entry editor.
So go make an entry!
(Just click on the image icon in your entry editor)

This is a very good move to make blogging a better experience, and I think it should have been done a long time ago.

I've just tried the feature, and I'm not really sure it's been well developed.

The popup window is set to no scrolling, this means that when you log into Photobucket, you can't see anything other then the advertising present at the top of photobucket's website. I have no idea why this happens, it's almost as if it's been casually programmed over lunch.

Anybody have any suggestions how to work around this?

Tags: Photobucket, Blogdrive, partnership, bugs,