Blogger team wins people of the year By PC Mag

BLOGGER TEAM Evan Williams, Meg Hourihan, and Paul Bausch won the Prestigious "People of the Year" by PC Mag. Along with them Mena G. Trott and Ben Trott of six Apart Ltd. the makers of Typepad ,another service like blogger also won the award.

Evan and Meg were the actual founders of Blogger. Paul did all the coding behind this site. Blogger is free service to create blogs .It has now been acquired by Google.

Technorati, a blog-tracking service, keeps tabs on over 30 million weblogs in what has come to be known as the blogosphere. According to Technorati, a new weblog is created every seconds. There are blogs out there for everyone. More than 50 of these are Blogger users. It is one of the alexa's top 30 websites.

The Biggest plus point of blogger is that it's simple and free.Even during Financial crisis blogger was free. One needs to know no or just minimal coding to Create a blog. A blog is just like a personal diary or a content driven website. This is Blogger Hosted Blog.

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Kinja.com

Meg Hourihan along with Nick Denton of Gawker Media created Kinja. It began as an investigation into the navigation of web logs. It was dubbed as Kinja in October of 2003. Kinja was first launched in April of 2004. Kinja still seams to be in in beta form .


Kinja is a personal web service that allows its users to "bookmark" blogs. It provides the user with recent posts of the chosen blogs. These are known as personal "digests". They are visible in one single page. We can categorized compilations available based on such labels as media, music, liberal, conservative, and more.

A user can mke his digest available to any outside user . He can share his favorite blog posts. Utilizing a webcrawler called Kinjabot, (similar to Google's webcrawlers) Kinja creates an internal index of all available web logs as defined by Kinjabot.

Meg Hourihan- blogger co-founder

Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs, the company behind Blogger before its acquisition by Google. She worked with Pyra labs for quiet some time but left it as the coumpay was out of cash. She now runs a weblog at Megnut.com .

She later co-founded kinja along with Nick Denton of Gawker Media. She married notable blogger Jason Kottke on March 25th, 2006, and gave birth to their son, Ollie Peter Kottke, on July 3, 2007.

She is the co-author of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs (ISBN 0-7645-4962-6), and a frequent speaker at technical conferences concerning online journalism and the role of women in technology.

Hourihan was named a Young Innovator Who Will Create the Future in 2003 by MIT's Technology Review magazine. PC Magazine named Hourihan as one of its 2004 People of the Year .

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