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116,190,000
The Gawker Media network reached 116,190,000 pageviews for March, 2007 -- up from 60,275,000 pageviews a year ago.
· Traffic Chart [Flickr]
Posted in on April 02, 2007, 11:54 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Team Gawker at SXSW
If you find yourself at SXSW Interactive, please join us for Lifehacker @ SXSW.
Monday, March 12
8pm - 12am
The Side Bar
602 E 7th St
Come drink on Lifehacker and Gawker Media! An open bar, a great outdoor space, Team Lifehacker, and maybe even a guest appearance by Deadspin's Will Leitch.
More details at Upcoming.
Hope to see you there!
Posted in on February 13, 2007, 11:29 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
They Say Imitation...
They at least could have copied the design better!
· Viral 'Studio 60' Gossip Blog Unlikely To Bring Up Aaron Sorkin's Problems With Drug Abuse And Mouthy Call Girls [Defamer]
· Defaker
Posted in on September 20, 2006, 06:24 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Spam of the Day
Posted in on July 12, 2006, 06:24 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
MTV is With Leather
Posted in on June 20, 2006, 08:10 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Gizmodo: Your Boxes Resource
Are these people serious? Emphasis added.
Hi,
I took a look at your site a couple of hours ago...and I want to tell you that I'd really love to trade links with you. I think http://www.gizmodo.com/ has some really good stuff related to my site's topic of boxes and would be a great resource for my visitors as it deals with some great aspects of boxes that I'd like to give my visitors more information about.
In fact, I went ahead and added your site to my Boxes Info4u website at [redacted]
Is that OK with you?
Can I ask a favor? Will you give me a link back on your site? I'd really appreciate you returning the favor. There's some html for linking back to me on my Add URL page (http://boxesinfo4u.com/addurl/).
Thanks and feel free to drop me an email if you'd like to chat more about this.
Best wishes,
Nick
Boxes Info4u
info@boxesinfo4u.comP.S. If you'd like the description of your site modified just drop me a line.
Posted in on February 22, 2006, 05:28 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
How Many Blogs Did AOL Buy, Exactly?
"In online content that ranges from music to movies, travel to tech, food to fashion, medicine to mortgages, 85 new topical websites now call AOL and AOL.com home – providing online consumers with new micro-communities where they can connect, debate, editorialize, comment, and learn."
Or so says the press release announcing AOL's purchase of WeblogsInc. WIN claims to have 85 blogging sites, but how many do they really have?
As part of my work with Gawker Media, several weeks ago I was asked to undertake an analysis of WIN's properties. I went to each site listed on their sidebar and took note of the last two posts made on that blog. I also got rid of sub-blogs (Engadget: Wireless, etc.) and personal blogs.
My count was 31. Now, mind you, 31 is still a lot! Gawker Media only has 14 sites. But 31 is not 85.
How did they have so many "blogs"?
- For many blogs, the most recent "post" was the "Best of WeblogsInc" posts that show up on every blog every Friday. Check out the Xbox2 Weblog to see what I mean.
- Lots of posts were crossposted on multiple blogs.
- They counted categories within a blog as separate blogs. Engadget appears on the sidebar blog list 5 times: Engadget Cellphones, Engadget Wireless, etc.
Jason recently claimed that they were going to "retire" some of the blogs that haven't seen posts in weeks. We'll see when that happens.
Now that WeblogsInc is no longer an independent competitor to Gawker, this data isn't really confidential. You can download the spreadsheet below and see for yourself.
· WIN Analysis Spreadsheet [Excel File]
Posted in on October 06, 2005, 05:32 PM | Comments (2) | Permalink
WeblogsInc Sells Out to AOL for $25 Million, Gawker Staying Put
The big news today is the sale of WeblogsInc to American Online. Good news for Jason and company, great news for Gawker Media.
I've had several people mention how Jason arguably sold out too late last time and didn't want to miss the boat again. Seems like he didn't miss it this time!
The question is what will AOL do to the company?
· Weblogs Inc Being Bought Out By America Online [PaidContent]
· AOL to buy Weblogs Inc. network [Reuters via. Yahoo News]
· Technorati Search: WeblogsInc
Posted in on October 06, 2005, 06:05 AM | Comments (2) | Permalink
Gizmodo Now Publishing in Seven Languages
Thanks to a groundbreaking partnership with global media powerhouse VNU, today Gizmodo begins publishing in a total of seven languages. Quoting from the press release:
Under the terms of the partnership, Gizmodo’s content will be translated from English into 6 additional languages, then augmented with local coverage for each market. Besides English, Gizmodo.com now will be available in French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian and covering the Belgium market in Dutch as well.
Flags will be added to the homepage at www.gizmodo.com. Other versions of Gizmodo are accessible at fr.gizmodo.com (French), es.gizmodo.com (Spain), etc.
This is huge!
· VNU Partners with Gawker Media to publish Gizmodo, the “One of a Kind” Gadget Blog across 7 Territories in Europe [VNU Press Release]
Posted in on October 04, 2005, 09:28 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Gawker Media Launches Comments!
Moments ago, Gawker Media launched an invite-only comments system on Gawker, Gizmodo, and Lifehacker.
Many people have long criticized us for calling our websites "blogs" while not having comments.
Maybe I have a few invites to give away?
· Gawker Comments: We’re So Tired of Being Alone, So Tired of On Our Own [Gawker]
· Step Right Up For Gizmodo Comments [Gizmodo]
· Lifehacker comments launched! [Lifehacker]
Posted in on September 23, 2005, 12:23 PM | Comments (2) | Permalink
Gawker Media Launches Deadspin, Sploid Redesign
Today Gawker Media launches both Deadspin, our new sports blog, and a redesign of our news site Sploid. While I can't promise 80% ads or a million posts a day, hopefully you'll check them out all the same.
Wonder what comes next?
· Sploid
· Deadspin
· Sploid: Do You Like Jigsaws? [Whitespace]
Posted in on September 08, 2005, 03:23 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
T-Shirt Polling at Gawker
Today at Gawker Media we're launching a reader poll for readers to vote for their favorite catch phrases. We'll print some of the ones that receive the most votes.
Jessica says it best:
Perhaps you feel like telling the world It's not whoring if you do it for free; maybe you're more the type to proclaim that Vogue is a food group.
Whatever you feel like, tell us!
Look for more t-shirts in the near future.
· Gawker Shop: Vote Now [Gawker Shop]
· Gawker T-Shirts: Vote Now for Your New Skeet Rag [Gawker]
· Gawker Shop
Posted in on September 06, 2005, 01:52 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
