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Re: Yahoo buys Buzztracker for $5 million

Car Loan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:54:15 -0000

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Re: Yahoo buys Buzztracker for $5 million

Scott Lawton (Blogcosm) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:23:56 -0000

"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).

Re: Yahoo buys Buzztracker for $5 million

Eric Rosser Eldon — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:01:55 -0000

Thanks. Clarified paragraph.

Re: Yahoo buys Buzztracker for $5 million

Tim Jones — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:11:43 -0000

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.