<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823</id><updated>2011-04-21T23:21:48.065+02:00</updated><category term='mobile'/><category term='Alianzo'/><category term='metasearch'/><category term='alternative search engines'/><category term='blog listing'/><category term='subjective content'/><category term='cache'/><category term='China'/><category term='relational'/><category term='Blogbar'/><category term='live web'/><category term='search engine'/><category term='topics'/><category term='alternative search engine'/><category term='social'/><category term='blogosfera'/><category term='user generated web'/><category term='blog'/><category term='Web 2.0'/><category term='multimedia'/><category term='mobile search'/><category term='blog ranking'/><category term='spanish blogosphere'/><category term='japanese blogosphere'/><category term='blog search'/><category term='tags'/><category term='Zuula'/><category term='iPhone'/><category term='categories'/><category term='tag cloud'/><category term='opinion'/><category term='Japan'/><category term='popular web'/><category term='search'/><category term='chinese blogosphere'/><category term='opinion web'/><category term='widget'/><category term='link to'/><category term='blogs'/><category term='iPod Touch'/><category term='Blogdimension'/><category term='social network'/><title type='text'>Blogdimension, the unofficial blog of the alternative search engine</title><subtitle type='html'>The ultimate search engine dedicated exclusivey to Web 2.0 and subjective content : blogs, microblogging, forums, news feeds, images, audio &amp; podcast, online video...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-8559904098627711281</id><published>2008-03-15T12:56:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-15T13:03:21.320+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='japanese blogosphere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mobile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iPod Touch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iPhone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alternative search engine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live web'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog search'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mobile search'/><title type='text'>How to add a Blogdimension shortcut icon to your iPhone or iPod Touch home screen?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Nothing easier than adding a cool "aqua-like" shortcut to Blogdimension.com - your prefered Web 2.0 Search Engine - on your iPhone or iPod Touch home screen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;1) From your device, open Safari and navigate directly to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com" title="Blogdimension, the Web 2.0 Search Engine!" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;http://www.blogdimension.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;2) At the bottom of the current screen, tap on the '+'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;3) A menu with four options shows up, tap "Add to home screen"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;4) A new screen appears where you can notice the "Blogdimension" icon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;5) Add or complete the word "Blogdimension" in the form just right from the icon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Et voilà !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A nice icon should appear now on your iPhone or iPod Touch home screen allowing you to access directly to Blogdimension.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/apple-touch-icon.png" target="_blank" title="Blogdimension iPhone / iPod Touch Favicon"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogdimension.com/apple-touch-icon.png" alt="Blogdimension iPhone / iPod Touch Favicon" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Why not doing the same for your own website or blog?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;It's very easy! You must first design the favicon for your website in an image editor (like Gimp). The picture should be 57 x 57 pixels. Name it "apple-touch-icon.png" (the image should be saved under "PNG" format). Upload this file and place it to the root of your website. Carry out the same operations as described above for Blogdimension. You will then have the shortcut of your own website on your iPhone or iPod Touch home screen. Share this tip with your friends, contacts, partners or customers!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.blogdimension.com/2008/03/14/how-to-add-a-blogdimension-shortcut-icon-to-your-iphone-or-ipod-touch-home-screen/en/"&gt;Original post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-8559904098627711281?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/8559904098627711281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=8559904098627711281' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/8559904098627711281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/8559904098627711281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-to-add-blogdimension-shortcut-icon.html' title='How to add a Blogdimension shortcut icon to your iPhone or iPod Touch home screen?'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-4396107541818976986</id><published>2008-02-16T22:07:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-16T22:15:35.202+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tags'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opinion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='multimedia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogdimension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='popular web'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='user generated web'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alternative search engine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Web 2.0'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opinion web'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='live web'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog search'/><title type='text'>The new web is live, tagged, opinion-based and multimedia</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;We are often asked by the media and journalists what makes Blogdimension a different search engine. We, at "BD", usually reply basically we focus on "Web 2.0" content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But we find it quite uneasy to explain about our positioning because the Internet content we give access to our users has no clear definition yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Q: What is then this still undefined Web content you call "Web 2.0 content"?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;A: the type of content BD gives access to is characterized at least by one or several of the following aspects:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;1) Real time and live web&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;"&lt;i&gt;Live web&lt;/i&gt;": it means content that has a limited lifespan. It consists of RSS or Atom-like content which we could define as "&lt;i&gt;As soon published, as soon consumed, as soon scrapped&lt;/i&gt;". Typically it includes all the blogs, microblogs, forums, online news, podcasts, online videos... NB: our &lt;i&gt;frenemies&lt;/i&gt; - from Technorati - also mention the idea of a "live web".&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"&lt;i&gt;Real time&lt;/i&gt;": next step is to introduce the idea of a real time content. It is not so difficult to implement. The only limitation is technical resources (servers) because this process requires much computation and storage capacity.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;2) Tags&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is quite a big difference between Web 1 and Web 2. Previously, a content used to be classified not by the author but on the search engine side when it was indexed. Categories and topics were fixed and defined statically by the webmasters. Today, the author has an active role in sorting out the content by associating descriptive tags. Categories and topics are changing constantly. This new possibility makes now the web really live! One can notice this new phenomenon in tag clouds which are virtually booming on the blogosphere.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;3) Opinion and subjectivity&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;This kind of content has the peculiarity of aggregating users' comments and viewpoints. That means something distinctive from general, informative, encyclopedic or commercial web. Of course, the latter can also include some opinion (personal comments, critics, etc.). In this case they fully enter into Blogdimension's scope.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;4) Multimedia&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;In recent years, the web is going through an increasing amount of multimedia content. The success of online audio and video sharing services speak for themselves. Just carry out a basic search and you will consistently find a bunch of YouTube or Blogdimension video files and tons of podcasts from blogs or other online media mixed in the results.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Q: So, finally, what is Blogdimension's contribution to the Internet search industry?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;A: Blogdimension allows the user to search &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;via a single entry-point &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;mainly&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; for:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;live,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;opinion,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;multimedia,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;and commented upon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;web content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, the question is: &lt;i&gt;how to clearly define this new kind of web content?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We will definitely have to imagine a new concept. We at Blogdimension suggest "&lt;i&gt;opinion web&lt;/i&gt;" or "&lt;i&gt;popular web&lt;/i&gt;" because "&lt;i&gt;Web 2.0&lt;/i&gt;" appears to be a rather technical definition. "&lt;i&gt;User Generated Web&lt;/i&gt;" could also be an option for defining the New Web.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, you? What is your opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your support.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Team&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-4396107541818976986?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/4396107541818976986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=4396107541818976986' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/4396107541818976986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/4396107541818976986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-web-is-live-tagged-opinion-based.html' title='The new web is live, tagged, opinion-based and multimedia'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-1132125966686222206</id><published>2008-01-25T14:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-25T14:38:13.107+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social network'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogdimension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metasearch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogbar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='widget'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alternative search engine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog search'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engine'/><title type='text'>Blogdimension results now in the Blogbar widget!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogbar.org/" title="Blogbar" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/image-4.png" alt="Blogbar" style="border-width: 0pt; margin: 0.2em 1.4em 0.7em 0pt; float: left;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Last month we announced that Blogdimension’s results were available in &lt;a href="http://www.zuula.com/" title="Zuula" target="_blank"&gt;Zuula&lt;/a&gt; metasearch, along with all the other “big” search systems. Today we are proud to be part of the search options also in &lt;a href="http://www.blogbar.org/" title="Blogbar" target="_blank"&gt;Blogbar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blogbar is now a quite widespread search widget the bloggers can easily add on their blogs or websites. It is a module with a nice look &amp;amp; feel and a typically Web 2.0 style of design. The Blogbar allows your visitors and readers (and yourself of course!) to carry out Internet searches directly from your site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is difficult to believe that there are so many powerful search functions (it is in fact a metasearch) hiding behind such a tiny, minimalistic and compact widget. The users can search for in practically all the search engines existing on Internet: all the stars of the search industry and now also Blogdimension.com, the Web 2.0 Search Engine! Like Blogdimension.com, they propose the service in many great languages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Following one of the two creators of the Blogbar and author of the influential French techno-geek &lt;a href="http://www.netwizz.net/blog/2008/01/17/548-blogdimension-le-moteur-de-recherche-web-20-quotmade-in-francequot" title="Netwizz" target="_blank"&gt;Netwizz&lt;/a&gt; blog they decided to add Blogdimension’s results because of (translated) “&lt;em&gt;the quality of their results, filtering options and the rapidity of their page display&lt;/em&gt;“. I can tell you we are always quite happy to read such phrases!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the Blogbar does not only propose a flat scrolling list of search engines. The engines are organized in a smart way by coherent types of search: &lt;em&gt;web search, blog &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;search&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;, job &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;search&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;, social networks&lt;/em&gt; and even&lt;em&gt; video &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;search&lt;/em&gt;! They still do not propose any&lt;em&gt; audio &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;search&lt;/em&gt;… But for that specific search the usesrs can maybe be satisfied  by the “&lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/pod-home" title="Blogdimension podcast search" target="_blank"&gt;podcast search&lt;/a&gt;” to be found directly on Blogdimension.com.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh yes! I’ve almost forgotten to tell the Blogbar makes it possible to search for your content published on your own blog or website as well. I should even had begun the article by this crucial information!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Okay. We could call it quits with the Blogbar. But we would miss quite a lot other interesting features imagined by its cunning designers. So you can also set your Ad-Sense parameters, if you have any. As you can see, the Blogbar is not only free of charge but can also bring you some little money. Every blogger knows that Ad-Sense is not a real bonanza! Still, this intent shows the Blogbar creators paid some attention to the users’ interest and wallet. A quality that becomes rare in the software or Internet industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The setting up of the Blogbar is very easy and the guidelines uncommonly clear. Even a 6-year child could do it!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And last but not least, if you feel affraid that adding a widget may clash with the look &amp;amp; feel of your website, it’s simply &lt;em&gt;nay&lt;/em&gt;! Blogbar’s inventors anticipated a whole range of colors so their widget integrates seamlessly to all kind of web and blog designs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Long live then to the Blogbar!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For Blogdimension.com, this new cooperation - short after the North-American &lt;a href="http://www.zuula.com/" title="Zuula" target="_blank"&gt;Zuula.com&lt;/a&gt; and more recently with the Spanish &lt;a href="http://www.alianzo.com/" title="Alianzo" target="_blank"&gt;Alianzo.com&lt;/a&gt; - indicates that we begin to harvest some cool effects. We, at BD, put everyday much energy and commitment to bring our Web 2.0 users a greater choice in their daily search activities, more fun and finally an alternative Web content cleared as much as possible of all the noise and scoria that begin to overwhelm big players’ results pages!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your constant support,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Team&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Find the &lt;a href="http://blog.blogdimension.com/2008/01/25/blogdimension-results-now-in-the-blogbar-widget/en/"&gt;original article&lt;/a&gt; on Blogdimension Blog&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-1132125966686222206?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/1132125966686222206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=1132125966686222206' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/1132125966686222206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/1132125966686222206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2008/01/last-month-we-announced-that.html' title='Blogdimension results now in the Blogbar widget!'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-6650357644309530216</id><published>2008-01-22T23:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-22T23:56:54.821+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social network'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogdimension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogosfera'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='categories'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='relational'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog search'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alianzo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog ranking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog listing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spanish blogosphere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alternative search engine'/><title type='text'>Blogdimension &amp; Alianzo - the Spanish bloggers' network - are now supporting each other!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="Alianzo" href="http://www.alianzo.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0pt; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0pt; FLOAT: left; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0pt; MARGIN: 0.2em 1.4em 0.7em 0pt; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0pt" alt="alianzo.png" src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/alianzo.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There is no any fanatic blogger who has never heard about &lt;a title="Alianzo" href="http://www.alianzo.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Alianzo&lt;/a&gt;, the most extensive bloggers' and social network and directory "Made in Spain"! Alianzo is a reference in the blogosphere since early 2005 and is known through its regular and much follwed blog listings established on an international basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alianzo cleverly ranks and federates the blogs and their authors by several criteria like geographic origin (more than 70 countries covered, sometimes zoomed at a regional level), language and a system of categories by tags.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alianzo rankings are made following a complex formula mixing different sources like "Bloglines RSS subscriptions, Technorati's incoming links, Google BlogSearch's incoming links, Alexa's position, Yahoo's incoming links, Google's incoming links and the number of mentions in several Digg's clones during the last month". It is based on the combination of popularity measurement and the users' influence (the users have they word to say which makes alianzo a true Web 2.0 service).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, a trends system is implemented so the users can follow the tendency of a given blog directly on a timeline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As per today, there are 13479 bloggers (many of them influential), 15451 blogs, 244 countries, 49 categories and 13814 tags registered in Alianzo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So why a cooperation between Alianzo and Blogdimension.com?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We found a natural convergence between a Web 2.0 network/directory and a pure Web 2.0 search engine" says Henrick, one of the two cofounders of Blogdimension. Alianzo and &lt;a title="Blogdimension" href="http://www.blogdimension.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Blogdimension&lt;/a&gt; are both focused on the same kind of users and market: bloggers and more generally all kinds of user generated content producers (video, audio &amp;amp; podcast, etc.). Both are active at an international scale, often in the same countries and languages. Both are niche systems. So, there is definitely a positive effect for Alianzo and Blogdimension to support each other and put in common their respective audiences and share some traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike several years ago, Internet users are now very experimented in 2008. They are less and less satisfied by giant monopolistic Internet search systems which tend to pour tons of useless or commercial results on them. This new generation of Internet users is now ready to explore the alternative, specialized and often very efficient tools available to them. Alianzo and Blogdimension are clearly the tools that the power users and bloggers as well as all the Internet users now need in their tool box for their daily Web 2.0 search activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find the logos and links to Blogdimension directly on Alianzo's website while you surf there! In short time, you will also find a logo to Alianzo on Blogdimension results pages too. Stay tuned!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again for your constant support,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Team&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-6650357644309530216?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/6650357644309530216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=6650357644309530216' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/6650357644309530216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/6650357644309530216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogdimension-alianzo-spanish-bloggers.html' title='Blogdimension &amp; Alianzo - the Spanish bloggers&apos; network - are now supporting each other!'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-6894823622367006900</id><published>2008-01-17T22:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T23:06:16.016+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='link to'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogdimension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alternative search engines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cache'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='relational'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog search'/><title type='text'>Three new "relational" features proposed in Blogdimension's search results</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;As you know Blogdimension is preparing its new 2.5 release. We don't want to let off the pressure on innovation. So we keep on imagining and designing new useful ideas for our ever demanding users. We owe them innovation!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So, here are three new features in preview of the next major upgrade of Blogdimension.com, the now Web 2.5 Search Engine... in a certain way.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Example of query on &lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/search?q=AltSearchEngine&amp;amp;page=2&amp;amp;mode=lang-en&amp;amp;r_mode=" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/search?q=AltSearchEngine&amp;amp;page=2&amp;amp;mode=lang-en&amp;amp;r_mode=" title="TechCrunch" target="_blank"&gt;AltSearchEngine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;206 link(s) to this blog&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;See more from this blog&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cached&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/relational_readwriteweb.jpg" mce_src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/relational_readwriteweb.jpg" alt="relational_readwriteweb.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/backlinks?s=70889-www.readwriteweb.com" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/backlinks?s=70889-www.readwriteweb.com" title="links to this blog" target="_blank"&gt;206 link(s) to this blog&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This feature displays the number of times let's say &lt;a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/" mce_href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/" title="ReadWriteWeb AltSearchEngine Blogdimension" target="_blank"&gt;ReadWriteWeb&lt;/a&gt; is linked to (or cited) by some other blogs. This is a very useful utility to measure your popularity within the blogosphere, of course through the prism of Blogdimension's index! Other systems will probably give different results. So you can compare between various search engines.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Blogdimension's "Link To" feature indicates two things:&lt;br /&gt;1) How many other blogs link to your blog,&lt;br /&gt;2) Who they are.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This way you can find your allies but also your ennemies... A true social and relational feature!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/source?s=70889-www.readwriteweb.com" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/source?s=70889-www.readwriteweb.com" title="See more from this blog" target="_blank"&gt;See more from this blog&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This one is a bit different. It displays all the posts or articles from a same blog available in Blogdimension's index at a given moment.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So you can have the whole history of a source at a glance within Blogdimension's results page. Of course we deliver only the post or article title, date, author and a short summary. You are then invited to clic on the link to access directly the original article for full reading.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/cache?s=28940524-best-technology-innovation-achievement-review-of-the-5-crunc" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/cache?s=28940524-best-technology-innovation-achievement-review-of-the-5-crunc" title="Cached" target="_blank"&gt;Cached&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Blogdimension caches some raw text content. We usually deliver only the links. But our technology makes it possible to show some limited content of a post or article. So this is the way to read a post entirely within Blogdimension. But it is strongly recommended you read a content directly where it derives from, we mean on the original blog. A direct link to the source is provided.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We will tell you later why this "cache" function is interesting either for the bloggers (content producers) and their readers. Typically, if the distant blog is down or unaccessible, a cached version of articles or posts can provide satisfaction to the bloggers and their readers by delivering a minimalistic content (like a "spare part" content). But the key idea is that this feature will in fact boost bloggers traffic. We'll tell you why next time. ;-)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So, if you are a bit curious about your blog network or you like to spy upon others then try these new features. May be you will learn something about yourself or the others. ;-)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;PS :&lt;i&gt; when using these features you might encounter some slowness. It is because such actions require more computation and resources. Just be patient (few seconds in general).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks for your support.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Team&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-6894823622367006900?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/6894823622367006900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=6894823622367006900' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/6894823622367006900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/6894823622367006900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2008/01/three-new-relational-features-proposed.html' title='Three new &quot;relational&quot; features proposed in Blogdimension&apos;s search results'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-923676752333146735</id><published>2008-01-12T00:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-12T00:32:42.243+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='japanese blogosphere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogdimension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Japan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog search'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engine'/><title type='text'>笑い (Warai) Blogdimension.com launches the Japanese version of its Web 2.0 search engine</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/logo_bd2_260_ja.gif" mce_href="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/logo_bd2_260_ja.gif" title="Blogdimension Japan"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/logo_bd2_260_ja.gif" mce_src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/logo_bd2_260_ja.gif" alt="Blogdimension Japan" style="border-width: 0pt; margin: 0.2em 1.4em 0.7em 0pt; float: left;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Five&lt;/b&gt;! Five is the number of international languages already available for searching into the vast Web 2.0 dimension with Blogdimension.com!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The Japanese version of Blogdimension.com - the Web 2.0 Search Engine - allows Japanese speaking users to search for contents in their own language. Be they Japanese natives, students, business people or simply lovers of the great Japanese tongue and culture.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;They can now find easily all kind of Japanese Web 2.0 sources ie. blogs, microblogs (&lt;i&gt;Twitter&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Tumblr&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Jaiku&lt;/i&gt;...), forums, online news, images, audio files &amp;amp; podcasts, online videos...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;All these contents can now be searched directly from a Japanese interface within Blogdimension.com.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;No need to mention that the Japanese language is one among the first blogging languages. Sometimes even the first one (see &lt;a href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000433.html" mce_href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000433.html" title="David Sifry Technorati Analysis" target="_blank"&gt;David Sifry's analysis&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Blogdimension has been accumulating tons of Japanese Web 2.0 sources since last summer's relaunch. It was logical to offer Japanese users a way to search for all these contents.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;So, dear Japanese users, should you find any interesting Web 2.0 link, a blog, or whatever containing a RSS or Atom feed, please do &lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/ja/submit" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com/ja/submit" title="Blogdimension Japan submit a link!" target="_blank"&gt;submit it&lt;/a&gt; so you help us to increase the index of Japanese sources.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;We wish you a pleasant journey in Blogdimension Japan and of course a lot of fun in your Web 2.0 search experience.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;笑い Warai!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Thanks for your support and special thanks to all our Japanese friends (A, Y &amp;amp; O) who helped us with passion there in Japan ;-)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Team&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;PS: Strangely, "www" (short for "warai-warai-warai") means "lol" in Japanese, as if the Web is finally a place associated with fun and laughing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-923676752333146735?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/923676752333146735/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=923676752333146735' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/923676752333146735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/923676752333146735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2008/01/warai-blogdimensioncom-launches.html' title='笑い (Warai) Blogdimension.com launches the Japanese version of its Web 2.0 search engine'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-4193318518987748089</id><published>2007-12-26T16:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-12T00:39:48.809+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zuula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogdimension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metasearch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engine'/><title type='text'>Blogdimension and Zuula.com now in close cooperation!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zuula.com/" mce_href="http://www.zuula.com" title="Zuula.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.zuula.com/Images/logobig.gif" mce_src="http://www.zuula.com/Images/logobig.gif" alt="Zuula" style="border-width: 0pt; margin: 0.2em 1.4em 0.7em 0pt; float: left;" height="142" width="534" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It's done! The smart and fully customizable multi-search engine Zuula.com displays now also Blogdimension's blog results!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Zuula.com belongs to the family of metasearch engines. But unlike the other "metas", Zuula proposes an extensive choice of results provided by a clever combination of the most used search brands available on the net.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Like Blogdimension.com, Zuula tends to verticalize its results via a system of tabs. One can search for Internet content by type of sources in a very user-friendly way. The search tabs are: web, images, video, news, blog, jobs... No doubt that some other "verticals" will be added in the future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Moreover, Zuula is a real "do-it-yourself" engine. Many of the parameters are customizable. For example, you can select or exclude a search engine by simply drag and drop its tab, change their order of appearance, add an "adult search" filter, choose the number of results to be displayed, etc. Of course, all these preferences can be saved so you find your custom search interface next time you use Zuula.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;In a standard way, Zuula also proposes its toolbar and an Add-in. Let's call it a widget!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Oh yes! Zuula keeps the sponsored links (those provided by the search systems part of the results displayed in Zuula) well separated from the organic results. So, the users access directly to the true content they are searching for without being polluted by commercial results. This is also a good point which also corresponds to Blogdimension's philosophy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Zuula is in Beta mode. But they are probably humble at Zuula because their search is in reality already fully functional, fast and provides extremely relevant results!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Congrats to Zuula's team for the great work they are doing there in their Princeton's (NJ, USA) labs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;So, good luck to Zuula! Blogdimension is of course proud to be part of Zuula's ecosystem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zuula.com/blog_srch/blog_SearchResult.jsp?bst=1&amp;amp;prefpg=1&amp;amp;st=Blogdimension&amp;amp;x=0&amp;amp;y=0" mce_href="http://www.zuula.com/blog_srch/blog_SearchResult.jsp?bst=1&amp;amp;prefpg=1&amp;amp;st=Blogdimension&amp;amp;x=0&amp;amp;y=0" title="Zuula + Blogdimension" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/bd_zuula.jpg" mce_src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/bd_zuula.jpg" alt="Zuula + Blogdimension" style="border-width: 0pt; margin: 0.2em 1.4em 0.7em 0pt; float: left;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;NB: &lt;i&gt;Zuula &lt;/i&gt;means "to take off" in a central-african language! That's all what we wish to Zuula here at Blogdimension.com! And to soar as well...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;More on &lt;a href="http://www.zuulablog.com/posts/59" mce_href="http://www.zuulablog.com/posts/59" title="Zuula Blog" target="_blank"&gt;Zuula blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More about Zuula on &lt;a href="http://altsearchengines.com/2007/12/19/search-engine-zuula-new-and-improved/" mce_href="http://altsearchengines.com/2007/12/19/search-engine-zuula-new-and-improved/" title="Zuula on AltSearchEngine" target="_blank"&gt;AltSearchEngine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Thanks for your support,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Team&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-4193318518987748089?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/4193318518987748089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=4193318518987748089' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/4193318518987748089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/4193318518987748089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogdimension-and-zuulacom-now-in-close.html' title='Blogdimension and Zuula.com now in close cooperation!'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-6489099133169668648</id><published>2007-12-06T11:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-12T00:35:27.073+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogdimension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tag cloud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='categories'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='topics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engine'/><title type='text'>Blogdimension.com introduces the "tags cloud", a feature to feel the pulse of the blogosphere!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The bloggers and their readers usually do know what are "tags clouds". This feature visible on some websites displays a selection of the most frequently used keywords tagged (that's why they are called "tags") in blog posts or articles. Tags can also be the most searched for words. In general, the most popular tags appear either in the form of characters set in a bigger size, in bold or in a special color whereas less popular tags tend to appear with no particular emphasis. The more the tag is prominent, the more it is popular.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Tags can be compared to a form of website categorization. In the Web 1, Internet content was sorted in predetermined categories (or topics). Formerly, in order to appear in one or another category a website had to be referenced in a web directory or a vertical portal and linked to an existing category. If one of the categories was missing the website could not be sorted out, or the website editor had to ask to the directory's administrator to create a new category. Yahoo built its early succes on this idea that the web should be organized in a centralized way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;However, this approach revealed to be finally inaccurate with reference to the dramatic explosion of content published on Internet. Often, the webmaster submitting a website had to face the "misc." or "unclassifiable" category syndrome since the limited space of a web directory could not propose an unlimited number of categories or sub-categories that would harm to its ergonomics or usability. It's the eternal problem of the never ending branching trees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The popping out of the "tags" concept represents a real paradigm shift! Tags are not defined in a central way (by an administrator of a directory) but by the websites editors themselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Indeed, it is the blogger who defines the categories related to the content to be published (blog post, note or article) in this new approach. A dedicated field in the edition form allows him/her to connect a series of keywords related to the content of the note. These words are chosen '&lt;i&gt;ad hoc&lt;/i&gt;' by the editor according to the topics developped in his/her article.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/tags.jpg" mce_href="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/tags.jpg" title="Fonction tags d’un blog"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/tags.jpg" mce_src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/tags.jpg" alt="Fonction tags d’un blog" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;We are definitely in a Web 2.0 and contributive logic with the tags system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;With this decentralized system of categorization, we introduce the idea of a vast ecosystem of keywords on a global linguistic scale which can be potentially "captured" (indexed) by the search engines, provided their technology allows it. &lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com" title="Blogdimension.com" target="_blank"&gt;Blogdimension.com&lt;/a&gt;. is now one of these systems indexing the tags.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Instead of getting sucked into designing categories artificially and centrally which is a pure non-sense if we consider the Web is live, we, at Blogdimension, chose to implement a technology allowing to recognize and to index not only the links of the articles and blog posts but the tags as well. The retrieved tags are stored into a special database and counted. The more often a tag appears, the more it is listed at the top!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;So, we get a long list of tags sorted in decreasing order of frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The "tags cloud" represents a limited selection of the most popular keywords assigned by the bloggers to their articles or postings and found in our index!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The "tags clouds" can vary from a search system to an other since each brand has its own sorting formulas which are often an industry secret. Some search engines propose a "hit parade"-type of listing, some other do not propose anything.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;One can clearly perceive the semantic power of these "tags clouds" and their statistical role since they allow to carry out trend analysis of the content published. It makes it possible to know the topics most favored by the bloggers. Moreover, on the other side, one can imagine to collect and analyse the most clicked through or searched for tags in order to get the reading tendencies. There's just one step to be able to follow up the consumer trends!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;"Tags clouds" are valuable tools for all those who need to take some sense out of the Web and the blogosphere: communication, advertising, intelligence agencies, marketing departments, political parties... In short, it is a function essential to all kinds of trend setters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;A "tags cloud" is a momentary snapshot of the blogosphere. The clouds can even be compared following various criteria: in the timeline, according to a profile of users, with regard to particular events, sociological criteria or seasons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;As a start, Blogdimension has implemented the tags cloud feature on its English, French and Spanish versions. But, this feature will be soon extended to other Blogdimension linguistic versions like the Chinese or Japanese ones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;It is at the same time funny and curious to compare the "tags clouds" between several linguistic spheres. For example, English speaking users are much interested in topics related to technology, business and entertainment. The French speaking ones like to write and post about society, Christmas (now) and political questions. The Spanish speaking ones tend to be attracted by downloading, computers and of course the picturesque... Hugo Chavez!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;If you are a professional and are interested in trend analysis, watch or intelligence activities do not hesitate to get in touch with us. We perhaps can propose you our services and (anonymous) data. Our index is rich of thousands of millions of links and tags pointing to blogs, microblogs, images, podcasts, videos and opinions from the blogosphere.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Blogdimension's "tags cloud" is a smart way to feel the pulse  of the Web 2.0 and listen to its heart beat!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Thanks for your support,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Team&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;"Nuage de tags": French version&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/fr/" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com/fr/" target="_blank" title="Blogdimension Nuage de tags FR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/nuage_fr.jpg" mce_src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/nuage_fr.jpg" alt="Nuage de tags FR" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;"Tags cloud": English version&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/" target="_blank" title="Blogdimension tags cloud EN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/nuage_uk.jpg" mce_src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/nuage_uk.jpg" alt="Nuage de tags EN" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;"Nube de tags": Spanish version&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/es/" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com/es/" target="_blank" title="Blogdimension Nube de tags ES"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/nuage_sp.jpg" mce_src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/nuage_sp.jpg" alt="Nuage de tags ES" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-6489099133169668648?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/6489099133169668648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=6489099133169668648' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/6489099133169668648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/6489099133169668648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2007/12/blogdimensioncom-introduces-tags-cloud.html' title='Blogdimension.com introduces the &quot;tags cloud&quot;, a feature to feel the pulse of the blogosphere!'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-1324143543397843681</id><published>2007-11-19T19:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-12T00:44:43.522+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opinion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogdimension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='subjective content'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alternative search engines'/><title type='text'>Alternative search engines and the "subjective Web"</title><content type='html'>The history of Internet led us through roughly 6 different stages reflected by the contents found in the World Wide Web:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    * 1993-1995: most of the content to be found in the Web was from universitarian and scientific origin,&lt;br /&gt;    * 1995-1997: then came the era of personal webpages indexed by the first portals and search engines,&lt;br /&gt;    * 1997-1999: corporate websites and webmerchants started to flourish,&lt;br /&gt;    * 1999-2001: press media went totally online. Other media (TV, radio) were condemned to stay off-line because of the weakness of the bandwidth!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then came a technological leap: broadband...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    * 2001-2006: during this period the Web became suddenly richer (rich media) and more participative allowing multimedia files to be delivered and exchanged online. Blogs appeared, MP3 music systems like Napster paved the way with Peer-to-Peer systems. Immediately followed by video online sharing systems and voice over the net. The Web 2.0 was born making it possible for everyone to become a consumer and a producer of the content.&lt;br /&gt;    * 2007: this date is crucial since it marks the upcoming of virtual life and mobile and Internet convergence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gigantic and incumbent search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN due to their longevity encompassed all these periods and therefore succeeded in indexing all kind of contents in their databases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This enormous accumulation of content by the leading search systems during the web evolution can be considered as an asset in regard with the vast choice of sources offered to the users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it is not really! Historical search systems are overwhelmed by too much "noise" content making it difficult to find straightforward relevant content. Their links databases are spoiled with too many obsolete and commercial content making it hard to bring satisfaction to the users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, the fact that their ranking models are all based on popularity (sometimes dubbed as "authority") makes their indices not very dynamical. Popular web sources are almost on top and new sources have to struggle in order to get to the the first results pages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not a lie to say that if the users use only one search engine they miss much of the reality of today's web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things must now change as the users become more aware! The users should consider specializing their search operations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To do this, a new generation of search engines is emerging on the market. These niche search engines are the "alternative search engines".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each alternative system has its own speciality and positionning. Some are dedicated to the retrieval of images, other to blogs, still others to given topics and type of content. Some of them carry out this task in an extremely creative way thanks to smart interfaces enhanced by the Ajax language. Some are real AI tools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you wish to discover all the richness of the alternative search engines, we invite you to read the excellent www.altsearchengines.com, a blog from the ReadWriteWeb network specially dedicated to these new generation search engines. This blog is thoroughly animated and sourced by Charles Knight who scans the whole Internet on a daily basis to find and present new alternative search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.blogdimension.com also belongs to this breed of alternative search engines. It proposes a totally new way of addressing the usage of online search activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogdimension focuses exclusively on Web 2.0 content like blogs, microblogs, forums, online media, images derived from these sources, audio files &amp; podcasts, videos. Generally speaking, Blogdimension retrieves syndicated (RSS) and user generated content only. In the contrary of all the big ones, Blogdimension.com does not give access to any general, encyclopedic or commercial web eventhough one can find such content also in our search engine incidentally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By such a positionning, Blogdimension appears as a complementary tool to the incumbent search engines represented by the trio Google-Yahoo-MSN (Live.com). Blogdimension exists in English, French, Spanish, Chinese and soon in Japanese, Portuguese and Russian. Other great languages are in progress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Said in a different way, Blogdimension gives access to the subjective part of the web. To the web made of opinions and viewpoints (blogs, forums, videos). This viral and unconventional part of the web which expresses individual thoughts, anger and passion. In other words the free web!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is time to use several search engines to discover the still new unexplored dimensions of the World Wide Web!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-1324143543397843681?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/1324143543397843681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=1324143543397843681' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/1324143543397843681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/1324143543397843681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2008/11/alternative-search-engines-and.html' title='Alternative search engines and the &quot;subjective Web&quot;'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-2190012554657592386</id><published>2007-10-29T17:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-12T11:22:34.726+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chinese blogosphere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogdimension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alternative search engines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engine'/><title type='text'>你好 (Ni Hao!) Blogdimension.com now in Chinese!e!!</title><content type='html'>Great moment for Blogdimension.com, the Web 2.0 Search Engine! We are proud to announce the launch of Blogdimension.com in Chinese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not conceivable to ignore such a great language and civilization even for a search company. Today Chinese (Mandarin) is among the most spoken languages in the World. Tomorrow it will be the first language of Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, after English, French and Spanish versions, Blogdimension releases now the Chinese version of its search engine oriented primarily on Web 2.0, RSS and multimedia content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinese users can now find blogs, forums, news feeds, images, audio &amp;amp; podcast and of course online videos like "6.cn" in Chinese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this was possible thanks to Gao and Suying whose knowledge of the Chinese languages, culture and Web 2.0 context were crucial for this project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why a Chinese version for Blogdimension ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China has its own search systems like Baidu, Bookee, Zhuaxia, Qikoo, Booso, etc. which are excellent, effective and adapted tools for Chinese users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogdimension's aim, we insist on it, is not to appear as competitors to the Chinese search systems. In the contrary, Blogdimension is a complementary and additional tool not only for the Chinese users living in mainland China but for all Chinese speaking people included non-Chinese people learning the language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It means that Blogdimension's Chinese version brings also value to the Chinese speaking users living overseas in South Eastern Asia, the United States, Europe and any other part where Chinese communities are present and active.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We believe Blogdimension being an international initiative it gives Chinese users the capacity to form a huge lingusitic community (metacommunity) all over the world by gathering in a single entry point all kind of Web 2.0, multimedia and blogospheric content written or published in the Chinese language. It helps the Chinese - be they from inside or outside China - to find information in their language, share viewpoints or cultural codes and stay interconnected independently from any geographic limit. We think language is as important as geography. China is often dubbed as "Middle Country" or "Middle Kingdom" in history books. We would be happy that thanks to Blogdimension China could be dubbed also as the "Extended Country".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogdimension delivers no political messages. It is aimed only at facilitating the access to the Web 2.0 content existing in the various languages it operates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogdimension's goal is definitely to bring Web 2.0 and blogosphere content to a maximum of people all around the world, whatever country they live, in their language. There are no small languages in our conception. Every language in the world is as important as English, Spanish or French, especially in a world that tends to be more and more multilateral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we ask the Chinese users to be patient because our index of Chinese links is not as big as it deserves to be and in regard of the Chinese influence in the world. It will take some time before our Chinese index builds up! So if you are a Chinese speaking user and you don't find a source in Blogdimension, please just submit it! And be confident.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Chinese users, thanks for your support and contribution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Team&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/zh/" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com/zh/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/blogdimension_chinese_screenshot.jpg" mce_src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/blogdimension_chinese_screenshot.jpg" alt="blogdimension_chinese_screenshot.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-2190012554657592386?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/2190012554657592386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=2190012554657592386' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/2190012554657592386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/2190012554657592386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2007/10/ni-hao-blogdimensioncom-now-in-chinesee.html' title='你好 (Ni Hao!) Blogdimension.com now in Chinese!e!!'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-6813651828493092547</id><published>2007-10-11T15:34:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-01-12T11:25:59.018+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mobile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogdimension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alternative search engines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mobile search'/><title type='text'>A mobile version for Blogdimension.com's blog with MoFuse.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Hey!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mofuse.com/" mce_href="http://www.mofuse.com/" title="MoFuse" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.mofuse.com/images/logo.png" mce_src="http://www.mofuse.com/images/logo.png" style="border-width: 0pt; margin: 0.2em 1.4em 0.7em 0pt; float: left;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Blogdimension.com would like to introduce &lt;a href="http://www.mofuse.com/" mce_href="http://www.mofuse.com/" title="MoFuse" target="_blank"&gt;MoFuse&lt;/a&gt; a great web application allowing blog and other RSS sites publishers to "mobilize" their content. MoFuse provides a simple interface where you can create the mobile version of your blog. The result is a site adapted to mobile browsing and readable on most of the mobile devices.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Moreover you "can take control" of the layout of your MoFuse mobile site thanks to a set of powerful Ajax features.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is really cool because other systems do not let you arrange the look &amp;amp; feel of the mobile version of your site. The content of the mobile version is always up to date thanks to a RSS enabled function that feeds it automatically with your blog or site content.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Here is, for example, the mobile version of Blogdimension's blog: &lt;a href="http://m.mofuse.com/blogdimension" mce_href="http://m.mofuse.com/blogdimension" title="Blogdimension mobile version with MoFuse.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogdimension.mofuse.mobi/" mce_href="http://blogdimension.mofuse.mobi/" title="Blogdimension Mobile" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 11px;"&gt;http://blogdimension.mofuse.mobi/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Oh yes! Last but not least! MoFuse have also a revenue sharing program. It's "&lt;i&gt;the only company with a mobile revenue sharing program that allows publishers to monetize their mobile site using Google AdSense Mobile&lt;/i&gt;" says &lt;b&gt;David Berube&lt;/b&gt;, the CEO and Founder of the service.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks to MoFuse.com you can "mobilize" and "monetize" your content in less than three minutes!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So, let's put Blogdimension's &lt;a href="http://blogdimension.mofuse.mobi/" title="Blogdimension Mobile" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://m.mofuse.com/images/public/chicklet_1.png" mce_src="http://m.mofuse.com/images/public/chicklet_1.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in your mobile links right now!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;MoFuse.com are doing a really great job to help the convergence of both blog and mobile worlds! &lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com/en/" title="Blogdimension.com The Web 2.0 Search Engine!" target="_blank"&gt;Blogdimension.com&lt;/a&gt; wishes &lt;a href="http://www.mofuse.com/" mce_href="http://www.mofuse.com/" title="MoFuse" target="_blank"&gt;MoFuse&lt;/a&gt; a great success!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks for your support,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Team &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-6813651828493092547?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/6813651828493092547/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=6813651828493092547' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/6813651828493092547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/6813651828493092547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2007/10/mobile-version-for-blogdimensioncoms.html' title='A mobile version for Blogdimension.com&apos;s blog with MoFuse.com'/><author><name>Blogdimension</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15048725265265784374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_-YlS2O4iYmA/R4gFRshFrnI/AAAAAAAAAAk/YtEa7O5SmpU/S220/logo_bd2_150.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4351667041897644823.post-7981348976895485113</id><published>2007-09-28T23:57:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-01-12T11:29:08.476+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogdimension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spanish blogosphere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alternative search engines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog search'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engine'/><title type='text'>"Un, dos, tres! Un pasito pa'delante"... the Spanish version of Blogdimension.com is now online!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;It's by a wink to this famous Ricky Martin's song meaning "A step forward!" that Blogdimension.com announces the release of the Spanish version of its Web 2.0 Search Engine!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Spanish version is the third to be launched after the French and the English ones. Thus, Blogdimension.com gives the possibility to &lt;a href="http://encarta.msn.com/media_701500404/Languages_Spoken_by_More_Than_10_Million_People.html" mce_href="http://encarta.msn.com/media_701500404/Languages_Spoken_by_More_Than_10_Million_People.html" title="Spanish language Encarta" target="_blank"&gt;a community strong of around 350 million speakers&lt;/a&gt; to access and search Web 2.0 content such as blogs &amp;amp; microblogs, forums, news, podcasts, online videos published in Spanish.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Of course, the "advanced search" function enables the Spanish speaking users to zoom in content published in the different countries composing the Hispanic world. These sources can be located as well in Spain, Latin America, the United States than in other places of the world.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We are conscious that a powerful 'blogosfera' is now emerging in these linguistic areas. It would not have been very wise not to do something for such a vast and influent community in terms of Web 2.0 content search. So we didn't ask ourselves too many questions whether we should release or not a Spanish version of Blogdimension.com! We released this version naturally.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We will let you know about our further developments. New top languages are already in progress and will be launched very soon ;-)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks for your support and bienvenidos!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Team&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.blogdimension.com/es/" mce_href="http://www.blogdimension.com/es/" target="_blank" title="Blogdimension.com Version espagnole"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/logo_bd2_260_es.gif" mce_src="http://blog.blogdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/logo_bd2_260_es.gif" alt="Blogdimension.com Version espagnole" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4351667041897644823-7981348976895485113?l=blogdimension.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/feeds/7981348976895485113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4351667041897644823&amp;postID=7981348976895485113' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/7981348976895485113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4351667041897644823/posts/default/7981348976895485113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogdimension.blogspot.com/2007/09/un-dos-tres-un-pasito-padelante-spanish.html' title='&quot;Un, dos, tres! 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