Some interesting facts in life.

Interview with Mena Trott

Today, Businessweek has an interview with Mena Trott, founder of Sixpart (mother company of Typepad).  In the interview, Mena touches upon different challenges her company is facing and the future direction of blog.  She commented:

"I think personal blogs are really the future, and with that comes a challenge for blogs to be more friendly and welcoming"

I agree this is going to be the main usage of blog in the future too but I am surprised she doesn't mention anything about corporate blogging.  In fact, a reader of Businessweek immediately brought up the use of blog in small business / startups to market their products.

Blogging To The Government

I was searching for more interesting stories about different people using blog and landed on this blog.  Our Speaker of the House Denny Hastert is also trying out blog to communicate with people in the country!  It's even more encouraging when he said:

"This is Denny Hastert and welcome to my blog. This is new to me. I can’t say I’m much of a techie. I guess you could say my office is teaching the old guy new tricks. But I’m excited. This is the future. And it is a new way for us to get our message out."

The sentence "This is the future" gives blog a promising future to become a communication channel in coroporation and government.

New Blog Analytics Tool For Nicetaste.com In the Future

AdaptivePath has recently announced to sell Measure Map - a blog analytics tool - to Google.  Jeffrey Veen, now employee of Google, said in his Google blog first day in Google, "our mission remains the same: to build the best possible user experience so people can understand and appreciate the effect their blogs - their words and ideas - can have."  It seems like Google is getting serious in improving its analytics capabilities.  I have signed up to Measure Map's account waitlist so that I can use it in www.nicetaste.com later.  I bet Sitemeter will be in serious competition with Google soon.

My Typepad Experience

I finally configure my blog the way I like it.  It took some time but I must say Typepad is really use-friendly.  I love the service so far.  Typepad, keep up the great work.