VentureBeat: Yahoo buys Buzztracker for $5 million
Tim Jones
· 2 years ago
Eric - you need to clarify the second paragraph. It's Yahoo News that gets 36 million users per month NOT BuzzTracker! From the traffic estimates I've seen, BuzzTracker gets only 10,000 to 35,000 users per month.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, TechMeme was originally called Memeorandum. The two sites are run by the same person, so calling them "affiliated aggregators" is not entirely accurate.
Eric Eldon
· 2 years ago
Thanks. Clarified paragraph.
Scott Lawton (Blogcosm)
· 2 years ago
"TechMeme was originally called Memeorandum"
Well, the politics site is still at memeorandum.com. The tech site used to be at tech.memeorandum.com. For all the complaints about Alexa, it clearly shows when the tech content moved to Techmeme.com and kept most of the traffic. (Well, the actual date isn't clear, but it was circa April 2006.)
(I think "affiliated" is correct though perhaps not strong enough. My BuzzTracker roundup post called them "companion sites" (and I included the lesser-known WeSmirch and Ballbug).
Car Loan
· 1 year ago
Yahoo buys Buzztracker for $5 million can possibly be very interesting material when you enunciate spectaularly; thanks!
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Also, if I'm not mistaken, TechMeme was originally called Memeorandum. The two sites are run by the same person, so calling them "affiliated aggregators" is not entirely accurate.
Well, the politics site is still at memeorandum.com. The tech site used to be at tech.memeorandum.com. For all the complaints about Alexa, it clearly shows when the tech content moved to Techmeme.com and kept most of the traffic. (Well, the actual date isn't clear, but it was circa April 2006.)
(I think "affiliated" is correct though perhaps not strong enough. My BuzzTracker roundup post called them "companion sites" (and I included the lesser-known WeSmirch and Ballbug).