summertime

Watch it, that´s bloody !

Well, it took us a while. But we´re finally online now, beta of course.

Welcome blog.co.uk. Welcome blog.ca.

The number of blogs keeps to grow.

Dave Sifry of Technorati has made some updates on the state of the blogosphere. Here´s a quote - via John Battelle

Technorati is now tracking over 7.8 million weblogs, and 937 million links. That's just about double the number of weblogs tracked in October 2004. In fact, the blogosphere is doubling in size about once every 5 months. It has already done so at this pace four times, which means that in the last 20 months, the blogosphere has increased in size by over 16 times.

And more from journalism.org:

Growth of Bloggers (grey) and Blog Readers (red) in 2004...

Saturday night, Berlin had a great little event in xberg again. Johnny felt like having a FUTURA BOLD 2.0 and it was absolutely splendid.

All guests where fortunate enough to be exposed to some more than moving lyrics from Diane, Anders alias Moneybrother and Patrick.

I rarely attended an event with such a, how to say, calmly electrifying atmosphere. There were not too many people around, maybe around a 100 or so, but they all seemed to me as if they were very optimistic about how their future will look like. And they were all happy to shape it with their creativity. A small, young and independent crowd living pretty confidently in the leading part of their microcosmos, that being a good share of blogs or music in that case.

Entry was free and donations were accepted when exiting the building, Becks was going for 2 Euros each, what more could you possibly ask for ?

A true marketer´s delicacy I´d say - but I think "Spreeblick" was the only "brand" around... - a smart, fun, enriching evening. Thank you. And best of luck for those talented musicians.

Google continues to introduce new features. Here´s another one.

Reminds me of the good old clickfish days ...

I am blogging slowly these days...but blog.de and other nice sites that are soon to come will be moving faster with Dopavogui having arrived this Monday at our office in Berlin Xberg. Dopavogui is our new intern from Frankfurt/Main and deeply into code. We are all very excited to see what he develops for the blogosphere.... ! Welcome Dopa, hope to see your blog soon !

So what you have is a "hidden" google search in your firefox browser.

Hm.

I´d appreciate it if it would re-direct me to a google SEARCH PAGE, but instead, it´s making the decision for me. Plus, I can´t find the option to untick this anywhere in the preferences. What a shame..

I have a question:

If I type in "blog" in the address bar of Firefox, WITHOUT ANYTHING ELSE, like "www" or "http://",

I get redirected to blogger.com......

Isn´t that a little ... odd ?

We have a fun and cool feature online since a couple of minutes that displays the cities our bloggers live in. It´s great fun and shows you which city is most prominent and allows you to take a look at all the profiles .... !