Net Entrepreneurs Launch European Blogging Venture

Blogs.........

[Shak]

LONDON (Reuters) - A trio of European dot-com survivors have embarked on one of the Internet's promising, but niche, new businesses as they launched on Wednesday a Web publishing business for Internet diarists.

Stefan Glanzer, Stefan Wiskemann and Christoph Linkwitz, founders of the once high-flying German Internet auction site Ricardo.de, have used some of the proceeds from its 100 million pound ($163.5 million) sale in 2001 to launch what has been dubbed Europe's first commercial service for Web loggers, or "bloggers."

Full Story [asia.reuters.com]

Shak

[werty]

Thank you for the story. I signed up and will give it a spin. It seems to be feature rich.

[heini]

Anybody sees a business in that? Selling a space and preinstalled sw to blog, hoping that business types start blogging like mad ...?

Why should they? I know there's large pro conferences going on where blog-gurus finally make some dollars for hyping blogging to medium management types, good for them, but where is the USP?

[NFFC]

1998 called, it wants its business model back.

[werty]

Well the interesting thing is it is free. So I assume they are either going to be adding a fee to it or selling advertising?

It seems to add some of the greymatter/moavable type features to a standard blogger page.

Blogger has a beta of their new software to test out as well. Seems like there will a push into blogging (or is it wlogging?) taking over for regular personal pages.

NFFC...nice one, got me smiling.