Back in June Michael Arrington, the founder of tech blog TechCrunch, hinted that he could be ready to sell his blog as content becomes hot again and AOL is understood to be close to completing a deal to buy it.
According to a post on the blog Gigaom, AOL is on the verge of cutting a deal that will see it acquire TechCrunch and add it to its growing content business, which has been refocused under CEO Tim Armstrong. Read More
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
Yesterday morning Security experts Sophos put out a message saying that twitter was being exploited by users that had figured out how to use a flaw to allow messages to pop-up and other sites to open in your browser window. In some cases users were redirected to a hardcore porn site in Japan. Read More
We all know that social media’s image has been tainted by issues such as personal data abuse, intrusive display advertising, and plagues of unsolicited demands from ‘friends’ to join mafia or pirate clans; but issues such as these have so irritated US consumers that they have rated Facebook as more annoying than many airlines, cable firms and even the IRS, according to research.
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It’s a beautiful day for U2 fans that are into social networking – Bono-backed investment vehicle Elevation Partners has forked out $120m for 5 million Facebook shares, upping its total to 7.5 million shares. Read More
Business network LinkedIn has taken some more inspiration from its social networking brethren and sexed up its groups feature, improving its design and adding more personalisation. Read More
In a market where content has suddenly become hot again Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington suggested he could be ready to sell his massively successful five year old industry blog.
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Lots of publishers have reimagined their magazines as an iPad app, but no one yet has created an iPad-only magazine. Until now. The first issue of a title called Sideways is available from the US app store for $3.99, and appropriately for a magazine that targets earlier adopters its content is focused on that readership’s current obsession – their iPad. Read More
Despite assurances to the contrary by Yahoo! chief Carol Bartz last autumn that it was “done” with job cuts, the search giant has done it again – announced another swathe of redundancies. Read More
Interesting piece in Ad Age by Steve Rubel at Edelman Digital who argues that as TechCrunch turns five it is part of a group of blogs launched around 2005 that were the last to make it big. Read More
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