The primary reason to publish slideshows, as far as I can tell, is to juice page views and banner ad impressions. Slideshows are super annoying and lists are awesome so we do lists!
— Jonah Peretti, on part of how BuzzFeed respects its readers, from an email to employers and investors
Liz Gannes in Social on May 15, 2012 at 6:30 am PT
A benevolent attitude and an informal alignment with Reddit have helped Imgur stand out in the commodity business of image hosting.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 31, 2011 at 7:18 pm PT
Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be
me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 3, 2011 at 1:15 am PT
It’s definitely better than one million!
News Byte
Voices in News on March 10, 2011 at 11:53 am PT
Yahoo today
launched the latest addition to its growing stable of original blogs–
The Envoy, which will cover foreign affairs with Laura Rozen, most recently chief foreign policy reporter for Politico, at the helm. Yahoo now has 23 original blogs across its news, sports and entertainment coverage, and said that in February, monthly traffic to those sites topped 550 million page views for the first time.
Kara Swisher in News on February 22, 2011 at 2:08 pm PT
BoomTown always enjoys the maiden voyage of a newly public company, so liveblogging Demand Media’s first quarterly earnings seems like a must-do.
It’s also the first public outing for CEO Richard Rosenblatt, who has sold off his previous entrepreneurial efforts.
His first point: Where else can you find out how to ripen an avocado?
Liz Gannes in Social on February 6, 2011 at 11:24 pm PT
Korean video fingerprinting company Enswers has acquired Soompi, a San Francisco-based company that runs the largest English-language Korean pop culture site.
Kara Swisher in News on February 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT
In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites.
As part of the deal, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington–who was derided by some when she co-founded the left-leaning site in 2005 with investor and well-known communications exec Kenneth Lerer–will become editor in chief of a new unit that has purview over all of AOL content properties.
The deal was signed just this afternoon.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2011 at 7:40 am PT
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, along with Apple’s Eddy Cue, rented out the Guggenheim Museum to show off their newest creation: A newspaper built for the iPad.