People love to microblog because it is very short and easy to understand.
Microblogging is blogging in the micro form. You make a point in less than 144 or 200 characters through your cell phone, email, Web, instant messenger, and so on. Just make your presence felt.

Microblogging seems to be catching on. A quick look at Alexa’s stats for  twitter.com , the leading name in microblogging compared to those of blogger.com, the popular blogging site throws up some food for thought. Blogger scores more on page views and number of people visiting it. But twitter.com is climbing the traffic ranks steadily. In the past three months, it has jumped more than 1,200 places to reach a place within the first 1,000 sites.

Controls the content:
Right now there is no control.Would anyone be there to moderate these groups? Just like bloggers are meant to be responsible for the content they put up, microblogging also would need some sort of monitoring.

Spammed:
That’s all a very real possibility here. Are there measures in place to protect us from that! Anyone can sign up for any group and get indirect access to the mobile numbers of all people signed up on a site. There should be some spamming mechanism to protect from this.

Immediate:
Microblogging is immediate which blogging might not. But as a medium, it is still in its infancy. Will it turn into a lucrative medium? Watch out for some action there.

Security:
Microblogged content cannot have security, if it provides that would be fine in future.

As for why Twitter took off so much faster than Blogger, I came up with four  possible reasons (there are likely more):

1. Twitter is easier to use than Blogger was. All you need is a web browser or mobile phone.

2. Twitter has more ways to create a new message than Blogger did at that point. With Blogger, you needed to use the form on the web site to create a post. To post to Twitter, you can use the web, your phone, an IM client etc. It’s also far easier to send data to Twitter programmatic.News accounts alone sends a couple dozen new messages into the Twitter database.

3. Twitter has a much larger pool of available users than Blogger did. Blogger launched in August 1999 and Twitter almost 7 years later in March 2006. In the intervening time, hundreds of millions of people, the media, and technology & media companies have become familiar and comfortable with services like YouTube, Friendster, MySpace, Typepad, Blogger, Facebook, and GMail. Hundreds of millions more now have internet access and mobile phones. The potential user base for the two probably differed by an order of magnitude or two, if not more.

4. But the biggest factor is that the social aspect of Twitter is built in and that’s where the super-fast growth comes from. With the way Blogger worked, it just didn’t have the capability for that kind of growth.

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RSS: Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary.

An RSS feed is an XML format for distributing news headlines or titles on the Web. It is quite similar like HTML.RSS Feeds are simply called as “a list of items”.It is also called as “RSS”, Atom, XML, “feed”

RSS Feed Aggregator tools:

• Web-based: Bloglines  www.bloglines.com
• PC (offline): Sharp Reader  www.sharpreader.net
• Mac (offline): Pears

RSS Feed Search Tools:

Technorati : www.technorati.com

Benefits to RSS:
• Users can subscribe to their interested feeds.
• Standard for syndicating content through web
• Best stream of fresh web content
• Users can review the content quickly in short span of time.
• Through RSS feeds traffic to the website can be increased.

RSS feeds can be read by
• Desktop Feed Readers
• Web Based Readers

Some of the Top RSS Feed readers
www.newzcrawler.com
www.newsgator.com
www.jetbrains.com
www.google.com/reader
www.bloglines.com
www.awasu.com
www.stardock.com
www.sharpreader.net

RSS feeds can be used in
• Blogs
• Newsletters
• Weather Buzz
• Press Releases
• Specials Discounts / Offers
• Calendars

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One of the biggest benefits of building a blog for your company is the increased traffic that comes from new content and new search listings in the search results.

In fact, extra listings in the search results are one of the best selling points if you are trying to convince your company to launch a blog. Especially if you’re dealing with someone who thinks people don’t read blogs.

It’s necessary to blog your company to advertise your services, products and to tell all others about your company not like a magazine or a personal diary, every second of the day millions of people  go online to search for products, services, companies, solutions and answers – and guess what kind of content they find, content from keyword rich, search engine friendly blog posts.

Blog to list in Google rankings

On this point we agree, a lot of people don’t have time to sit down and to get perfect strangers – but, they do have the time and need to get information about the products, services, and companies they plan to do business with – and guess what kind of information they find when they search? – Blog posts. Are you seeing a pattern yet?

Blog to develop yourself and to develop other Business Strategies

If your intent with a blog is to develop a large, engaged, readership and to become leader in your industry, a blog is a wonderful vehicle, as long as you realize you must work like crazy to implement this strategy. If, however, you simply want to show up in Google.

Blog as much as possible and make it a daily habit

Search as a way of life for your customers and prospects and has changed the game of marketing forever and while there are additional potent reasons to blog, enhancing your chances to rank well in the search game is reason enough for most small businesses to invest the little bit of time and energy it requires.

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