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Congratulations To Blog World Keynote Speaker Laura Fitton on Funding of oneforty.
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- Posted on December 18th, 2009 by
Jim Turner
It was announced today that Laura Fitton, or as we all know her more appropriately as @pistachio, and her company oneforty.com received funding in the amount of $1.6M. Those of you that attended BlogWorld & New Media Expo this year know that Laura was our opening keynote address for the Social Media Business Summit which [...]
Twitter Stepping Towards Commercial Accounts
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- Posted on July 24th, 2009 by Tyler Knott Gregson
Looks like all that talking might actually be leading to some doing. That’s right, Twitter has finally taken its very first steps out of the world of the free, and into the world of the paid…kind of. Twitter has unveiled a new thing called Twitter 101, which is basically a series of web sites and [...]
For Love or Money: How to Find the Blogging Sweet Spot
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- Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Lisa Barone
Being a professional blogger is sexy.
You get to make money writing on the Internet in your pajamas. It’s the epitome of the American dream, all idyllic and hypnotizing. Well, it is until your bills come anyway. Then that fantasy land you created while drinking overpriced mochaccinos comes crashing down and you remember that being a [...]
If ARS Technica is Worth 25 Million What is Huff Po Worth?
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- Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Rick
Just about two months ago 24/7 Wall Street included ARS Technica in their 25 most valuable blogs list and set the price market price at $15 million. If today’s reports of ARS Technica’s sale to Conde Nast are true the price was actually $25 million. That’s a 66% increase over 24/7’s valuation. Does that [...]
New Media Rich!
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- Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Rick
Tim Bourquin from New Media Expo has a must read post up today. Here is a small excerpt:
In the “old days” anyone who was famous in the media had the big bucks that naturally accompanied that fame. But these days, there seems to be a whole lot of folks that are “Internet famous” because of [...]
Zac Johnson at Affiliate Summit
This is really a test and my first attempt at embedding video on the blog. I did a quick interview with Zac at Affiliate Summit on my new Flip Camera. I did cut the video a little short. About an hour after this interview during his keynote Jason Calacanis showed a slide of Zac’s famous [...]
