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Jason Calacanis founded Weblogs, Inc. in September 2003. The company eventually grew to a portfolio of 85 blogs. In 2005, he sold the company to AOL for $30 million.
TypePad, a commercial blogging platform based on hit post Moveable Type, was released in October 2003 and hosts blogs for major multimedia companies such as the BBC.
In February 2004, videographer Steve Garfield began uploading one or two short videos each month to his personal blog, often about current events such as protests and rallies.
Other video bloggers started doing the same, and this became known as "vlogging." Steve Garfield called 2004 "the year of the video blog."
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In 2004, the most searched word in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary was “blog.” It was named word of the year.
This shows how much the world of blogs has influenced the mainstream world. According to one study, 32 million Americans read blogs at that time.