Alexa
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Reddit 'excited' about chance to eat Digg's lunch
Venture Beat &bull Yesterday
For a long time now, Digg has been the king of technology news aggregation. Tech fans liked the way they could rate their favorite tech stories highly, and see links to those rise to the top of the site's home page. Competitor Reddit.com started much later than Digg, and never really had a chance to catch up - until now. Reddit is not only grabbing traffic from Digg in the wake of that site's troubled redesign, but it is also reporting a healthy jump in advertising deals and subscriptions.… Full Story »
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A Four-Step Guide to Generating Sales Leads from Your Blog
Copy Blogger &bull Aug 31, 2010
Okay, I jest. But to listen to some bloggers, you would think a blog's only purpose is to make money online, by selling ebooks, membership sites, or advertising. The truth is, blogs have grown into a more powerful tool than anyone ever imagined. They're ideal for making money online, of course. But they can also be used to generate profits for nearly any kind of business, including those that provide real services in the offline world. This often means generating sales leads for a service or consulting business. This is how I use my copywriting business blog, which accounts for… Full Story »
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Find out what your friends eat - get pictures
SF Gate &bull Aug 28, 2010
If there were a recipe to describe foodie website Foodspotting, it would probably be this: one part Foursquare, a dash of Yelp and a heaping of Flickr. Users of the site - also known as Foodspotters - post pics of… Full Story »
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The Icons of The Top Websites on The Internet
Laughing Squid &bull Aug 26, 2010
Nmap scanned the top million websites on the internet (based on Alexa traffic data) using their Nmap Security Scanner and collected each site's favicon to create an "Icons of The Web" image featured the top 288,945 websites. Full Story »
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Foodspotting backed by super angels
Venture Beat &bull Aug 25, 2010
Foodspotting, a site that helps users find the best place to eat the food they're craving, has just raised $750,000 in seed funding. There are plenty of restaurant guides and review sites on the Web, but I'm often less interested… Full Story »
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300,000 Largest Websites Visualized With Favicons
Mashable &bull Aug 25, 2010
An interesting visualization over at Nmap.org shows the favicons of the 300,000 biggest websites on the Internet (according to Alexa), with the size of the favicons corresponding to sites with the most traffic. The data has been gathered through a… Full Story »
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Alexa Site Audit Review
Jatin Mahindra &bull Aug 24, 2010The first section you'll see is the number of pages crawled, followed by 3 "critical" aspects of the site (Crawl Coverage, Reputation, and Page Optimization). All three have their own report sections as well. Looks like we got an 88. Excuse me, but shouldn't that be a B+? The next section on the overview page is 5 recommendations on how to improve your site, with links to those specific report sections as well. At the bottom you can scroll to the next page or use the side navigation. We'll investigate these report sections individually but I think the overview page… Full Story »
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Alexa: YouTube surpasses Yahoo! as the Internet's 3rd most visited site
The Next Web 2008 &bull Aug 23, 2010
In an interesting testament to what users consume on the Internet, YouTube has just passed Yahoo! for the #3 spot of the "most visited" sites on Alexa. Numbers 1 and 2, as you might expect, belong to Google and Facebook… Full Story »
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"Stop being weak." An Interview with Angelo Sotira, CEO of deviantART.com (TCTV)
TechCrunch Web 2.0 &bull Aug 22, 2010
One of the greatest things about TechCrunch is that they celebrate and reward each writer's own voice rather than forcing every writer to sing from the same hymn-sheet. They encourage differences of opinion. While deviantART isn't Erick Schonfeld's cup of… Full Story »
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Zagat And Foodspotting Get Cozy, Take Fine Dining To The Next Level
TechCrunch 2008 Web 2.0 Companies &bull Aug 13, 2010
Foodspotting and Zagat Survey, two entities that we have written about before, have today announced a decision to partner up in an app integration move that pretty much sets the pace for mobile social dining in the future (You listening… Full Story »
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XKCD-Inspired Cartoon Maps the World's Social Networks [PIC]
Mashable &bull Aug 11, 2010
This cartoon map shows the relative sizes of social networks based on real 2010 user data, and does so in a quirky and amusing way. The quirky and amusing aspect is hardly surprising, because this map - titled the "2010… Full Story »
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Google Doesn't Use Alexa Data For Sitelinks or PageRank
Jatin Mahindra &bull Aug 6, 2010This website uses IntenseDebate comments, but they are not currently loaded because either your browser doesn't support JavaScript, or they didn't load fast enough. A well-rounded view on search engines and search engine marketing by senior members of the major… Full Story »
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WorthySite.com - Comprehensive Website Information
Killer Startups &bull Aug 5, 2010
Worthy Site is one of these useful resources that let you know all there is to know about any website that you might be interested in, either because you are a webmaster who is planning on expanding his current portfolio,… Full Story »
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Founderspotting: Steve Jobs, He's Just Like Us!
TechCrunch Web 2.0 &bull Aug 5, 2010
As in sometimes it's hard for him to get a table with without a prior reservation Foodspotting founder Alexa Andrzejewski snapped the above pic of Apple demi-god Steve Jobs outside of San Francisco hotspot Flour and Water over the weekend.… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Mac
- Steve Jobs
- Alexa
- Sway
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Websitelog.net - Collecting data for all popular domains on web.
Feed My App &bull Aug 2, 2010
Websitelog.net is absolutely free service that gives you an estimate of website worth based on an uniuqe algorithm and technology. We collect data from various sources to give you all information like Google pagerank, Backlinks, Indexed Pages in major search… Full Story »
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LearnVest's founder: Is Alexa von Tobel Suze Orman 2.0?
Venture Beat &bull Jul 27, 2010
LearnVest founder and CEOA Alexa von Tobel turned down Harvard and a life on Wall Street to make personal financeA education accessible to women, and she has no intention on failing. She thinks learning how toA manage your money should be simpler, aA passionate belief which comes from her personal need for… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Alexa
- New York Times
- Quantcast
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LearnVest Launches Financial Bootcamp Programs To Keep Women Fiscally Fit
TechCrunch Web 2.0 &bull Jul 27, 2010
Personal finance site for women LearnVest has had a big year. Launched last fall at TechCrunch50, the startup raised its first round of funding from Accel Partners and seed investors a few months ago ($4.5 million to be exact). LearnVest has a simple goal:… Full Story »
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Social Site Reddit Shows Off Traffic Data - Puts Alexa, Compete, Quantcast To Shame
The Next Web 2008 &bull Jul 15, 2010
If you don't know Reddit, you have been missing out on one of the best websites online. Something of a Digg clone, Reddit has vital communities around nearly every topic you can imagine. If you love something niche, you have… Full Story »
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Top SEOs Analyze Glorified Scraper Sites After May Day
Jatin Mahindra &bull Jul 13, 2010WebmasterWorld's administrator, Tedster, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld that takes a deeper look at the May Day update by looking at sites that should be impacted by the update and were not. Tedster does something you rarely see at a WebmasterWorld thread and picks apart a specific site that is doing well. Then you have some really well-known and respected SEOs come in and discuss… Full Story »
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Top SEOs Analyze Glorified Scrapper Sites After May Day
Jatin Mahindra &bull Jul 13, 2010WebmasterWorld's administrator, Tedster, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld that takes a deeper look at the May Day update by looking at sites that should be impacted by the update and were not. Tedster does something you rarely see at a WebmasterWorld thread and picks apart a specific site that is doing well. Then you have some really well-known and… Full Story »
