CNet has sold there photo sharing site Webshots for $45 Million – $25 Million less than what they bought it for three years ago. At this point, CNet just wanted to get it off it’s hands. One of the reasons Webshots did not live up to it’s potential is because of stiff growth and competition from sites like flickr and photobucket....
Read MoreMyspace Big Wigs Get a Big Raise
Myspace executives Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have just signed 2 year contract extensions with Myspace.com. The two will continue their current roles in the company. Each contract is reportedly worth $15 Million over the 2 years. The annual rate is just below the roughly $8 Million dollars a year CEO Rupert Murdoch receives on salary from the site. Peter Chernin the president, and Murdoch, however, both received nearly $30 Million...
Read MoreComScore Releases September US Search Rankings – Google Still Rising
ComScore has released their US Search Rankings for September this morning. Google.com remains the market leader, with it’s properties dominating with a 57% market share. This equates to 5.7 Billion Core Searches for the month. The 57% for Google is a half percentage point up from last month. Yahoo! and Ask properties also saw an increase in market share, while Microsoft lost some ground. Yahoo! came in at 23.7% of total searches,...
Read More22 Signs You May Be a Bad Blogger
With the thousands of blogs in each industry updating every day, it is impossible to read everybody. If you think you are being dismissed by the blogging community, here are 22 sure-fire signs that put you in a negative light in the blogosphere. 1. You regularly comment on your own blog, as somebody else. 2. You actually go back and answer those comments as “yourself”. 3. You don’t realize how obvious it is. 4. You make jokes that...
Read MoreT.R.A.F.F.I.C East Brings $7.8 M in Domain Sales
Last year at this time, I blogged about the Hollywood Florida T.R.A.F.F.I.C East and how impressed I was the sales totalled $4.9 M with the top price going to Cameras.com at 1.5 M. Well for those that thought that was the day domains peaked you were wrong. Yesterday, the same expo a year later in Miami Florida, netted $7.8 M shattering all records for a domain name auction. I wathced some of the live video cast via Moniker.com. Coming in...
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