Weblog Tools Market – Update February 2005: As collected from Google, technorati and a couple of other aggregation sources. The analysis is detailed but the data collection methods are somewhat flawed in my opinion. Hosted services continue to dominate the blogging market but the increase in overall numbers is quite encouraging. There are some interesting takes on this analysis. Livejournal, Typepad and MT together seem to be part of the largest blog provider in the market. Well crafted strategic decisions made by Moveable Type seem to be paying off. Thanks Threadwatch
IMHO their method for ‘research’ is pretty strange – but just counting links & relations in Google. Hopefully some day most commercial providers will share some official data. I also thinks judgement by sheer numbers makes no sense. It neither reflects the strenght of a community (and LJ is more like a community) and the quality of content – also missing are numbers about paying users (like for typepad). It would be more interesting to see which tool really makes money …