| 05.16.05
Google's Blogger To Make Some Big Moves
 By Nathan Weinberg
Blogger's Biz Stone told The Industry Standard that they are considering several enhancements to the service, including Enterprise blogging, privacy controls, and image hosting.
The full list of proposed enhancements that may or may not make their way into Blogger, according to the article:
- Native image uploading, so users can upload images to their blogs
- Integration with Gmail
- Enterprise version of Blogger, allowing companies to have internal blogs, much like Google's "Blogger In Google" service
- Creation of privacy groups, so bloggers can limit access to the blog or to posts to certain persons
Biz also said that they have solved most of Blogger's performance issues.
Meanwhile, Blogger has resolved some performance issues Stone acknowledged in March that were affecting the service, including slow response times. "We really spent a lot of time working on that and overall performance for 95 percent of users is really great. We're continuing to work to make that last few just as good," Stone said.
Can anyone confirm the current reliability of the service?
Hopefully, we'll see these improvements in the near future. Maybe Google will start giving Blogger the added publicity they deserve.
Oh, and Biz is "a Google executive"? I had no idea...
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Yahoo And ISS: Just What Do Those Corporations Do Anyway
 By John Stith
Yahoo comes with even more good information on its personal finance web site. They new offer access to the Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and it should be a boon for small investors.
The Wall Street Journal does an excellent job explaining how this system works for the ISS:
Each company in ISS's database has two scores based on a scale of 1 to 100; the higher the number, the better the corporate-governance practices. The first score compares the company's governance practices to other companies in their comparable market index, while the second score compares the company's practices to other companies in its sector group.
This basic information will go along way towards letting small investors know what's out there because companies with better governance practices are naturally stronger companies and do better in the long haul.
ISS also offers more information for a charge. The Yahoo stuff is free. ISS sells more detailed information that covers many more issues about how a company handles it's business.
Both companies look to profit from this venture as ISS expects more small businesses and investors will be more aware and Yahoo expects more advertising.
About the Author:
John Stith is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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