Weblogs.com is a ping server run by Moreover Technologies that automatically notifies subscribers when new content is posted to a website or blog. Essentially it acts as a central hub between publishers and consumers of content: Publishers notify the community at large when new content is posted, so that large-scale consumers of content (such as search engines) don't have to guess or blindly poll sites to check for new material. By creating a more efficient interchange between the two sides, content can be indexed and distributed more quickly, as close to real-time as possible.

Weblogs.com is the original ping service on the web and receives millions of pings every day from blogs, news and other information sources that have configured their publishing software to notify Weblogs.com the moment new content is published. Many of the large blog publishing platforms automatically ping Weblogs.com on behalf of its users.

Weblogs.com is a free, open service and everybody with a blog or website with updating content can ping it. For instructions, please click 'Ping Weblogs.com' on the front page.

For people looking to access and leverage the ping stream and be notified of updating sites in near real-time, please click the 'Download' link on the front page.

The benefits of pinging Weblogs.com

Bloggers and other publishers of content benefit from pinging the server because:

The benefits of calling Weblogs.com changes.xml feed

Weblogs.com is one of the largest ping servers on the web, and processes around 4 million pings every day. Individuals can access the changes.xml feed free of charge for non-commercial use. Calling Weblogs.com gives access to:

A short history of Weblogs.com

Weblogs.com is a site originally created by UserLand Software and later maintained by Dave Winer, one of the founders of RSS. In 2005, the Weblogs.com assets were acquired by VeriSign, who recognised the infrastructural significance of the service. Around the same time VeriSign also acquired Moreover Technologies, an original news aggregator set up in 1998 and led by Nick Denton.

The Moreover team has since managed and run the Weblogs.com service within VeriSign, and integrated it with its news and social media aggregation business.

In May 2009, after embarking on a new strategic direction, VeriSign divested of Moreover to an investor group led by Paul Farrell (press release). The Weblogs.com ping server transferred as part of this move and is now wholly owned and run by Moreover. Dave Winer's original vision and intent for providing a free, open access ping server remains the purpose of the site.