1. Adbrite – An advertising program that allows website owners to generate income from visitor traffic. A keyword driven marketplace for buying and selling advertising space on individual websites.
2. Adsense –Google advertising program that allows website and blog owners to generate income from displaying relevant Google ads on their websites.
3. b5media – Commercial blogging network with more than 250 blogs. In a commercial blog network the organization owns the blogs and hires writers to create blog postings.
4. Blogads – Ads specifically for blogs that allow blog owners to earn advertising income.
5. Blogger – A free blog publishing system owned by Google. Blogs can be hosted on the blogspot.com (Google’s Server) or externally on the user’s own server.
6. Bloggies – Blog awards that were started in 2001. Bloggies are an annual blog awards that involve nominations and then chosen by the public.
7. Bloglines – A web based news aggregator. Free online service that allows searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds and blog feeds.
8. Blogspot – Free blog hosting service for Blogger.
9. Del.icio.us – Social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing web bookmarks. Announced in September 2007, the website’s name is planned to change to “Delicious” when the site redesign is released.
10. Digg – Social book marking site. News stories, blog postings and websites are submitted by users. The most popular are promoted to the front page of Digg.com.
11. Feedblitz – A service that monitors blog and RSS feed updates and turns these into emails for subscribers.
12. Feedburner – A Google owned feed management provider that provides services for blogs and RSS feeds. They offer tracking the statistics RSS feed usage.
13. Flickr – A digital photo management and sharing website. Flickr allows photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means.
14. Icerocket – Search engine specialized in searching blogs, also searches web and MySpace.
15. LiveJournal – A free blog publishing system owned by SixApart. In addition to being a blogging platform, LJ is a is a virtual community with some social networking features
16. Movable Type – A blog publishing platform developed by California based Six Apart in 2001. Movable Type needs to be installed on a user’s own web server.
17. Newsgator – A News Aggregator service that displays content news and updates from the Web, the blogosphere.
18. Odeo – Online application that allows recording and sharing of podcasts.
19. O’Reilly Media – Company that originally coined the term “Web 2.0” in 2003. Company established by Tim O’Reilly in 1978. In 1992 they published the first book about the Web.
20. Pageflakes – Ajax-based start page similar to iGoogle. Allows users to read news and blogs, check their email, etc.
21. Pingoat – A web service that notifies dozens of blog ping servers every time you make a new post or update your blog. Similar to Pingomatic.
22. Pingomatic – Service used by most blogs to notify other ping servers every time you post a new article on your blog. They relay your ping to over 15 other ping engines.
23. Radio Userland – One of the early Blog publishing platforms that is still in use today. This was the first blogging software to allow adding audio which later became podcasting.
24. Sphere – Blog search engine based on algorithms that combine semantic matching with authority factors.
25. Technorati – Blog search engine that competes with Google, Yahoo, Sphere and IceRocket.
26. Typepad – Paid hosted blogging platform from Six Apart. Originally launched in 2003, TypePad was based on the Movable Type blogging platform.
27. Weblog Awards –Annual blog awards program, considered the largest of the annual blog award competitions.
28. Wordpress.com – Free blogging platform, this is the hosted version of the Wordpress blog. Competes with Blogger and Typepad.
29. Wordpress.org – Most popular self-hosted blogging platform. Open source, written in PHP and completely customizable.
30. YouTube – Google owned video sharing website where users can upload and share video clips.

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