Daily Archives: 24 September, 2010

How big is the blogosphere in 2010? [Infographic]

Great infographic from the Blogherald that seeks to answer the question just  “How big is the blogosphere”. Well you know the answer is huge, and the number of individual blogs out there is impossible to hazard.

It says that BlogPulse currently tracks almost 150 million websites that are classed as blogs. I love the way they have done the big blogs as planets with The Huffington Post, Mashable, Gawker and Techcrunch. Read More »

Yahoo! Take 2: What if they went private?

So Yahoo! is almost worthless? One idea already suggested today is a merger with AOL. But there could be another option – taking the business private.

For the record, Yahoo! is not a bad company, in fact it is very good, comfortably generating billions of dollars in revenue. However it is not as good as Google in harnessing search and making money from it.

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The global Viral Video Chart: Ken Block’s on top

Disappointingly few new entries on this week’s viral chart, as curated by Unruly Media, although nice to see Mother’s stunning IKEA television ad has been doing the rounds (unless, of course, you’re an ailurophobe, in which case you might want to skip number seven).

1. Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l’Autodrome, France
Moving up into first place it’s Ken Block, defying any convention about how long is too long a viral with this 10-minute clip. Read More »

Yahoo! is worth next to nothing – is a merger with AOL in its future?

How times change. Yahoo! is apparently worth next to nothing according to ThinkEquity analyst Aaron Kessler.

He has repeated his rating on Yahoo! and said that the value the company’s core operations is close to zero. Read More »

Huffpo founder Arianna Huffington says old media don’t get the web

Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, has hit back at comments made earlier this week that accused her and other blogs and aggregators of being “parasites living off journalism produced by others”.

Huffington was responding to the comments of Leonard Downie Jr, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, who used the James Cameron Memorial Lecture at London’s City University to attack online news aggregators. Read More »