Blogging is really booming now! A lot of companies are offering blogging services, including all big players like Google, Microsoft, and even Nokia.
As far as I remember, the blogging era was popular after Google bought a small company Pyra Labs, the creator of Blogger, about 2 years ago. After that, all big players, one by one, jumped into this business. Nokia, the largest mobile phone company, launched their service, LifeBlog, last year to allow us blogging via mobile phones. Friendster, the most popular social network site, just launched a blogging service beginning of this year. The competition is becoming more interesting because Microsoft launched “another blog service” in their MSN Spaces. What is MSN Spaces? It is a brand new service from Microsoft which is like a personal web site where we can share personal data, photos, music, opinions, etc.
The next interesting question is, who will be the winner in this competition? Who doesn’t know Microsoft? They have killed many of their competitors in the history. They have killed Netscape Navigator, the most popular web browser a few years ago. They have made ICQ users migrate to MSN Messenger. On the other hand, everyone knows Google too. They have a very good competence and are very creative in building good services. Remember they’ve just announced video blogging service last week.
Let’s see what will happen in this industry. From my opinion, this would be very interesting… 