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Thursday, 10 April 2008

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Magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK buys DigitalSpy | Media | guardian.co.uk

Verrry interesting. No price disclosed though. DigitalSpy has over 2 million news users, and over 3 million forum users.

(tags: hachettefilipacchi digitalspy m&a)
AOL Tech Network

AOL groups its tech blogs together under one banner.

(tags: aol)
AOP/ IAB - the data behind a quite remarkable year

Simon on the incredible results in online advertising of the past week.

(tags: advertising aop)

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Monday, 31 March 2008

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Ned Batchelder: Active URLs

OmniTI has a new site design, and they've done something unusual with their URLs. Rather than have them be primarily noun clauses, as in www.example.com/about/jobs, they've made them all complete sentences, leading with an active verb. Their jobs page is

(tags: design informationarchitecture urls)

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Thursday, 20 March 2008

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More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant.

ust a month ago VentureBeat reported a $320,000 raise. In 2007 we saw Sugar Inc. ($10 million), GigaOm ($1 million), Xconomy, Blogher ($3.5 million) and The Huffington Post ($10 million) raise venture capital. That’s at least $25 million in 2007 investe

(tags: blogs venturecapital funding)

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Monday, 17 March 2008

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After Bebo could travel networking site Where Are You Now be worth £100m?

Er, no. Probably.

(tags: travel bebo wherearetheynow m&a valuation)

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Wednesday, 5 March 2008

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Kevin Kelly -- 1,000 True Fans

Is a thousand people who love your stuff enough to make a living? Is that how we survive the Long Tail?

(tags: longtail audience)
ITV.com to redesign again

On their earnings call, they said they'd be "improving the user interface." So who's been fired for last year's redesign? Anyone?

(tags: itv design)

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Tuesday, 4 March 2008

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Online Journalism Scandinavia: Danish news sites benefit from doing things ‘The Drupal Way’ : Journalism.co.uk editors blog

Interesting post on how newspaper sites are using Drupal. But they seem to be having problems using pictures - which would seem pretty fundamental, no?

(tags: drupal)
Don't Click This Ad - eMarketer

"The heavy clickers surveyed represented just 6% of the online population, but made one-half of all display ad clicks." So what makes a "clicker"?

(tags: advertising)
Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine

Nice review of some recent new navbar design stuff. Particularly like the architect's site where nav options take up more room if there's more content on the site.

(tags: design informationarchitecture navigation)
OS OpenSpace from Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey API - needs investigating.

(tags: ordnancesurvey api)

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Thursday, 14 February 2008

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Kevin Kelly -- The bottom is not enough

Read it. Absorb it. It's the start of something new.

(tags: community wikipedia)

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Monday, 11 February 2008

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Reuters to sell US online ads for Guardian | Media | guardian.co.uk

Smart move. They've been getting bugger all for their ads in the US up until now.

(tags: advertising guardian)
GCap Retreats From DAB, Regional Xfm To Focus On Broadband, FM

Drop digital radio in favour of the Internet. Interesting - do we really need both technologies?

(tags: radio gcap)

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Tuesday, 5 February 2008

links for 2008-02-05

PenPlusBytes: BBC News adopts new digital content management system

Is this true? Pretty massive news if it is - looks like an outsourced CMS to me.

(tags: bbc cms)

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Friday, 1 February 2008

links for 2008-02-01

Glam Media Close To Finishing Its $50-100M Equity Raise

Valuation looks to have gone down, but ambitions look *huge*.

(tags: glammedia, valuation, funding)

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