As we talked about previously on helpmeblog.com streaming video and TV-style content is coming soon as technology companies continue to lead the way in making this a reality with the rise of broadband deployment around the world!

Brightcove, an Internet television startup that helps programmers syndicate shows across the Web and collect money from it, plans to announce on Tuesday it has attracted new high profile investors including AOL and IAC/InterActiveCorp, and a distribution pact with AOL.

You can read all about it on Reuters.

Net TV startup lands $16.2 mln from AOL, IAC

One of the hottest topics being blogged about right now is the launch of Microsoft´s Xbox 360 videogame console today.

With a 2 billion dollar marketing budget Microsoft intends to sell 3 million Xbox 360 units by the end of the year alone! With that type of promotion power I would say watch out Sony PlayStation

Extensive list of links posted on Joystiq’s blog massive Xbox 360 launch weekend blowout: the aftermath

Check it out! VideoGames sure have come along way since Pacman and Pong..

Yet another new feature to launch on BlogExplosion today is BlogExplosion ScratchCards! Members of BlogExplosion can win up to 1000 BlogExplosion credits instantly! (1000 visitors to your blog)

Remember this is for fun only and does not involve any money. Check out BlogExplosion ScratchCards now and good luck!

The Blog Herald (a blog I like to visit often) reports that the country of Finland alone has 170,000 bloggers.

We have 24 of them so far.. 

Looks like famous food blogger Julie Powell talked a little too much about other recipe blogs out there and what she “really thought about them”…

Great blog post by B.L Ochman´s on whatsnextblog. Check it out. Good read.

Negative blogging can be devastating for any company. A single blog post can be circulated around the Blogosphere in hours. For corporations that have spent millions of dollars buiding their brands (think of Coke, Nike, General Motors) over the years, negative blog buzz can potentially severely damage a corporate image in a very short period of time. One post..

Great post by George Simpson on iMedia Connection about how weary corporations still are of blogging and what the consequences can be.

Tessa Wegert of Clickz.com writes about blogs..

“They connect potential customers with products and brands. They’re a breeding ground for consumer feedback and a market research source. From a marketer’s perspective, blogs pretty much have it all.

Now, if only we could infiltrate them.”

BlogExplosion saw the potential problem of splogs or “keyword blogs” the first day we opened the site. Splogs are mass-produced fake blogs designed to attract the attention of search engines by clustering high-paying advertising keywords on their blogs. Search engines like Technorati and IceRocket are having a hard time of separating the good blogs from the bad blogs where these splogs are thriving in blog search engine results because of the way keywords are optimized. Something has to change…

That was the reason since day one we practiced the policy of manually approving each blog before it is listed on BlogExplosion. Without manual approvals the quality level would diminish to the point where we would lose the majority of our good members. We spend hours a day approving incoming blogs (100-300 per day) but that is the only way to maintain a quality base of blogs on BE.

On that note we deny 30-45% of new blogs added to BlogExplosion each day largely due to blog spammers trying to increase traffic to these fake blogs in search for clicks. Splog accounts are automatically deleted without notice. We really need blog hosts like BlogSpot to help do their part as we do our part to help keep the progression of blogging a positive one.

Nobody has been more vocal specifically about Blogspot “splogs” than Mark Cuban (owner of the NBA Mavericks and behind IceRocket.com) in his post Get Your Blogspot Sh$t Together Google.

On CNET News they refer to splogs as “spam re-invented”

The scourge of e-mail–spam–has reinvented itself for the world of blogs, in a phenomenon experts have dubbed “splog.” And Google is in the hot seat.

.. and of course there is a new search engine for splogs called Splogspot launched by our friend Kailash over at Pingoat (our Ping Partner on BlogExplosion)… Search Engine Journal has a good article about Splogspot here.

Looks like this blog helpmeblog.com is on their list. Better notify someone there and get that cleared up

Pajamas Media confirms “Instapundit” Glenn Reynolds, CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, Michael Barone, David Corn, and Claudia Rosett among Editorial Board Members

There has been plenty of talk about blog networks lately and asks many questions about how people will receive their media in the future.

Looks like it debuts in November.. Should be interesting.

Everyone is talking about this Web 2.0 or “internet version 2”

All of the big players like Microsoft, Google, AOL and Yahoo are all at war with each other trying to build next-generation web applications to capture your online attention. How these companies handle blogs in general will have a huge impact on the future of BlogExplosion and the entire blog industry at large.

So what will the net look like down the round? Great article here Innovation 2.0: Why Web 2.0 companies might have to flip to avoid being flopped that talks about Web2.0 and what that means to how the future internet will be delivered to us and the companies trying to bring you those services.