Emily Chang - Blog

As most of you know, I've been flying solo on eHub since it launched as the first Web 2.0 list back in Oct 2005. It's been a thrill and both personally and professionally gratifying to maintain a resource that's used widely. eHub has over 400,000 page views a month and reaches 14,000 daily RSS subscribers and growing weekly. Our audience is diverse and includes users of all types: startups, bloggers, developers, VC, designers, technologists, CEOs, librarians, parents, students, news media... the list goes on. Read more...

I'm finally getting around to playing blog tag after being offline and on vacation, then busy with clients again. Thanks to both Deb Schultz and Lisa Stone who tagged me a few weeks ago, spreading the game initiated by Jeff Pulver. Read more...

Vox, Six Apart's new blog service, launched on Oct 26. Vox puts the emphasis on personal blogging and sharing with friends and family. It features advanced privacy controls, a stunning variety of unique themes, powerful integration with other services like Flickr, YouTube, and more. Read more...

"The Trip Up" is the title of Anousheh Ansari's blog post from space. Ansari was the first the first civilian to blog from beyond Earth's orbit. She writes, "Hi everyone, it is about 11:30 GMT here on ISS. It looks like my first entry from space made it down there.. Amazing, isn't it...?" Read more...

I'm always interested in new blog networks. I've been fortunate to enjoy a healthy increasing readership and acceptance in several online networks. Most of these, however, push content out to other niche sites in the blogosphere. BlogBurst is a new product by Pluck, a company based in Austin co-founded in 2003 by Dave Panos and Andrew Busey. BlogBurst is an opt-in wire service for bloggers and publishers with a different approach. Read more...

SuprGlu "gathers your content from popular web services and publishes them in one convenient place." My first thought was that it sounded like another simple feed aggregator. I gave SuprGlu a spin tonight and was pleasantly surprised by both the ease of use and the sense of personal discovery. Read more...

There have been some excellent examples of Google map applications recently like Plazes, which allows you to discover locations and find people by proximity or location, and Mappr, where you can view Flickr photos by US geographic landmark or region. While these apps provide a social network for specific social purposes, the other wave of Google map applications like gVisit and MapStats provide another: a new way to discover, navigate and humanize your web statistics. Read more...