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7 Milestones in the History of Blogging

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

1971

Prehistoric micro blogging

In the early 1970’s, while at the Stanford University Computer Science Department, Les Earnest invents the “Finger” utility.

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1997

The term “Web Log” is coined by Jorn Barger, a programmer, futurist and a James Joyce scholar. Barger is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging, among Dave Winer and Justin Hall.

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1999

The first use of the word “Blog”

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2001

Early podcasting- first music RSS update

January 11, 2001 - Dave Winer demonstrates the RSS enclosure feature by enclosing a Grateful Dead song in his Scripting News weblog. wiki item | A high-fidelity Grateful Dead song every day

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2005

Video blogging

“Me at the Zoo”- The first video uploaded to YouTube. By the quality of this clip, I guess this youtube thing will never catch on.

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2006

Twitter introduces micro blogging

Twitter’s first marriage proposal? Max Kiesler, a San Francisco-based Web designer, asked his co-worker and partner of 15 years, Emily Chang, for her hand in marriage.

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2008

Introducing flyer blogging - powered by hyplet.com

Traditional blog platforms are text-based. Their graphic capabilities are quite limited. hyplet enables bloggers to create professional graphics online, without downloading and learning complicated software such as Photoshop.

The enhanced flyer blog, powered by hyplet, is visually rich, colorful and fun to read.

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5 ways to enhance your blog

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Blogging is about communicating. Make your blog more personal with hyplet online ID. You can put your picture (or avatar), and add info and links (your flickr name, MySpace profile, del.icio.us page, etc.) to let your readers know you better.Choose from dozens of templates and themes the design that suits you best.

Here are some online ID samples:

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Blog platforms offer advanced text editing tools but no graphic editing options. With hyplet you can easily create professional-looking graphics even if you don’t have any experience in complicated graphic programs like Photoshop or Freehand. The hyplet graphic editor is a simple, intuitive tool. Every element can be dragged & dropped. The editing is inline (what you see is what you get).You can create graphic headlines, add text and links to pictures, and create graphic items .Here are some items created with the hyplet editor:

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Choose one of the templates and create a flyer promoting your blog. The flyers can be distributed by email, or posted on social networks and other Web pages. Here are some examples: