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16 August 2004 
An Overview of the Weblog Tools Market
This stuff has to be a guesstimate whichever way you slice it. With Blogger at 30% and there being 1.5 million active blogs, let's say Blogger has 500,000 active blog. With Radio at 2% they'd have 30,000, Manila at 1% — 15,000. That sounds about right in my opinion. Maybe too many Radio users, perhaps more like 10,000? Even that sounds too many.
1906 Also posted to: cyberSaps. At: 3:03:55 PM . .
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Technocrati indexs some 3 million blogs of which 50% or more are abandoned, but what tools are these people using to write their blog? A survey using Google has shown some results, and some of the quotes I've pulled from the survey are revealing or IMHO key:
Hosted services probably represent between 70 and 85% of the weblogs published.
This will surely increase to near 100% as more non techies discover blogs.
Movable Type and Expression Engine are considered the most robust, in terms of features and extensibility, of the stand-alone applications.
That isn't true, Radio Userland (my blogging app of choice) is far more exensible and when configured correctly rock solid.
As more businesses find valuable uses for weblog technology, there will be increasing demand for professionally-oriented tools, hosted services, and professional support services.
Professional tools are my bread and butter already. Connecting Manila up with Radio gives a powerblogging platform that is beyond compare. Manila within the org gives thousands of dead easy blogs, high end content management, and intranet applications. It also connects to other applications easily.
This stuff has to be a guesstimate whichever way you slice it. With Blogger at 30% and there being 1.5 million active blogs, let's say Blogger has 500,000 active blog. With Radio at 2% they'd have 30,000, Manila at 1% — 15,000. That sounds about right in my opinion. Maybe too many Radio users, perhaps more like 10,000? Even that sounds too many.
1906 Also posted to: cyberSaps
. At: 3:03:55 PM . .
Permalink Top Search Google Technorati
Other title(s) for this story: Blog hoster and tools The blog industry