Blogs

Blogger.com
Blogger is a blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.
https://www.blogger.com/

WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a WordPress-powered weblog hosting provider which opened to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and opened to the public on

November 21, 2005. It runs WordPress MU, a version of the original software that allows people to create and manage their own weblogs without requiring

the time, money and technical knowledge involved in setting up WordPress on an ordinary hosting account. It is financially supported via the use of Google

Adsense banners and paid upgrades.

The site was initially launched as an invitation-only service, although at one stage, accounts were also available to users of the Flock web browser[1].

However, accounts can now be registered by anyone, and there are over 2,491,431 individual blogs with the service[2]. Registration is not required to read

or comment on weblogs hosted on the site, except if the blog owner wanted to do so; but registration is required to own or post in a weblog. All the basic

and original features (current as of May 2006) of the site are free-to-use, and will remain so in future. However, some features (such as a CSS editor,

domain mapping, and storage upgrades) are available only to users who pay for them.
http://wordpress.com/

TypePad.com

TypePad is a blogging service from company Six Apart Ltd, and the largest paid blogging service in the world.[citation needed] Originally launched in

October 2003, TypePad was based on Six Apart’s Movable Type platform, and shares technology with Movable Type such as templates and APIs, but is

marketed to non-technical users and includes additional features like multiple author support, photo albums and moblogging.

The service is available in several languages and countries around the world, but in the United States is sold at three different subscription levels.

TypePad is currently used by many large organizations and media companies to host their weblog, such as ABC, MSNBC, the CBC, the BBC and Sky

News.
http://www.typepad.com/

360.yahoo.com
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http://360.yahoo.com

AOL Journals
Blogs - AOL People Connection
Create a free public or private blogs and online journals; upload pictures, share thoughts, and customize pages.
http://peopleconnection.aol.com/blogs

Windows Live Spaces
Windows Live Spaces (also known by its users as MSN Spaces) is Microsoft’s blogging and Social Networking platform. The site was originally released

in early 2004 under the MSN Spaces name, as Microsoft’s competitor to similar services like MySpace, Bebo and Yahoo!’s 360°. Windows Live Spaces

received an estimated 27 million (27,000,000) unique visitors per month as of August 2007.
http://home.services.spaces.live.com/

Xanga
Xanga.com - The Weblog Community
What is Xanga? Xanga is a community where you can start your own free weblog, share photos and videos, and meet new friends, too! Click Here to Get

Started …
http://www.xanga.com/

LiveJournal
LiveJournal.com - Start a Free Blog / Journal Today
LiveJournal.com is a free service for all your journaling and blogging needs, offering privacy controls, photo storage, publishing tools, style templates, …
http://www.livejournal.com/

Vox
Free Blogs, Blog Hosting & Photo Sharing at Vox.com
A personal blogging service where people share thoughts, photos, videos with friends and family.
http://www.vox.com/

MySpace
MySpace
An international site that offers email, a forum, communities, videos and weblog space.
http://www.myspace.com/

BlogText.org
BlogText - Get a free blog here
Get a free blog with an easy-to-use blog and photo album service that offers many handy features, including a WYSIWYG entry editor, spell checker, …
http://www.blogtext.org/

Blogono.com
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Blogono is a totally free blog service provider that lets you easily create your own custom blogs in minutes. The service is powered by a powerful …
http://blogono.com/

Noodle5.com
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www.noodle5.com
http://www.noodle5.com/

NowBlogging.net
Now Blogging at nowblogging.net
NowBlogging.net is your free Blogging Community. You can choose from a huge number of templates to style your blog to suit you. …
nowblogging.net/
http://nowblogging.net/

DakotaBlogs
DakotaBlogs | Free Blog Sites
Free blogs hosted with DakotaBlogs.com should be PG-13 rated. We do require that you use your free blog to post original content. Sploggers need not

apply. …
dakotablogs.com/

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Big TV Ltd

Mumbai, DNAindia.com

Big TV Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications (RCOM), will launch direct-to-home (DTH) services commercially by the end of this month.

It expects to offer DTH services to over 10 million subscribers across the country and feed to over 15 million households.

Big TV will offer set-top boxes (STBs) at Rs 1,000-Rs 1,500, along with a monthly subscription package of Rs 300, which will entitle them to watch the channels being aired; it will also provide subscribers Rs 100 worth pay-per view (PPV) movies. They will have access to 30 PPV channels showing Bollywood, Hollywood and regional films.

Sumit Chowdhury, CIO, Reliance Communications, said: “The DTH service will commercially launch before the end of March.”

He declined to give the number of channels and other details but sources said that Big TV will offer around 100 channels initially. Later, the company is expected to increase the number of channels to 300.

Industry sources said the launch is likely only in May 2008 as the hardware is not yet ready, and the company will prefer the launch after school vacation commences on May 2008 though it was not independently confirmed.

Meanwhile, Chowdhury said Wimax technology isn’t cost-effective at present due to spectrum shortage. Nationwide launch of Wimax services will depend on the availability of more spectrum, he said.

At present, the DTH market is dominated by two private players — Essel group’s Dish TV and TataSky, which is a joint venture between the Tatas and Rupert Murdoch’s Star Group.

Dish TV, the first DTH player in the country, has around 3 million subscribers, while TataSky has over 1.7 million. Apart from these, Bharti group and Sun TV will also launch DTH in by year-end. According to an estimate, the DTH reach in India is likely to expand from 2.5 million households now to 16 million by 2010. Unlike cable, DTH is a more organised and a less-regulated business. With heavyweights foraying into the space, the DTH segment is set to outpace digital cable in the near term and become a 14 million home market by fiscal 2010.