A daily review of Web and Media news that crosses my path during the day.
– comScore: Google Continues to Hold Top Position in Search Share Rankings (see also Shore analysis: “It also means that general aggregators will continue to position their search services increasingly for specific verticals”)
– Josh Porter has a number 1 hit on Squidoo, with his catchy tune called Introduction to Web 2.0 (I hear the disco version is awesome)
– Blog Herald being auctioned off: High bid stands at $72,000 (Blog Herald is a blog about blogging and is affiliated with the B5media network. Current owner Duncan Riley outlines his reasons for selling)
– Burnham’s Beat Reports Record Q4 Revenues (nevertheless, I’ve downgraded my Burnham’s Beat rating to AAA-)
– TechCrunch: Yahoo Acquires SearchFox Assets (as Mike said, unclear if Yahoo bought it before or after the recently announced SearchFox closure)
– Digg gets a WSJ write-up (Slashdot’s Rob Malda “said he considered a Digg-like format for Slashdot, but rejected the idea because he believes much of Slashdot’s value lies in its editors’ news judgment.”)
– The Prejudice Map of the World (New Zealand is not on the map, but I’ll tell you here what Google delivers for kiwis: ingenuity, good-natured bluster, tinkering)
– Managing Hotmail (“Hotmail relies on more than 10,000 servers spread around the globe to process billions of e-mail transactions per day.” Link via Jeff Clavier, who nicely summarizes it)
– Web 2.0 Show interviews Jason Fried from 37Signals. (“I encourage everybody to build things.”)
– anne 2.0: Where are the Women? (“At what point will men stop asking “where are the women in the blogosphere?” We are everywhere: writing about politics, about tech, about feminism, about new media, about motherhood, about economics, about academics, about everything that men blog about.”)
Disco pic by Éole
Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)