Bigger Blogs buying smaller blogs

Posted by Marshall on July 22, 2008 | Link It

In a  way, hearing that GigaOm Buys A Mobile Blog - One Less Independent Blog In The World highlights a trend of larger blogs buying smaller ones to roll them up, according to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch:

"…the rollup of the better blogs (subjectively defined) as the space gets hyper-competitive (you gotta love zero barriers to entry)."

".. I predict that this is just the beginning of the process that will accelerate over the next 12-18 months. Larger blogs lacking the stomach for competition will sell to large media corporations. The more competitive large blogs who want to see this thing through will start to acquire the smaller ones and group by topic areas. Whoever builds the network of the most interesting and prodigious voices will eventually “win.” Or perhaps everyone will win, but to different degrees."

Was Arrington talking about himself selling TechCrunch to AOL?  My understanding is that there's a deal being discussed which I wrote about in

AOL TechCrunch - ugh, but if so, Arrington is cashing in

The only problem I have with this information - that TechCrunch isn't aquiring other blogs and is itself, shopping aroud to be aquired.

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On another note, I just want to remind readers that "other news" today - 200 dollar Web Tablet and ……. some other news that I'm more confident  Webmetrisguru.com will continue - though it will have to be moved to another location - more of that information as details flow in.

 

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Value of Social Networks

Posted by Marshall on June 24, 2008 | Link It

Wrote a post on my Thoughts on TechCrunch’s Modeling The Real Market Value Of Social Networks  today - as there was a lot of comments on the TechCrunch post my Michael Arrington Modeling The Real Market Value Of Social Networks.

That was a major post, wish I had wrote it myself - certainly could have - in fact, I could have done better - but I didn't write it, he did.

I think though, I will try to try to do some along the same lines, soon - if he's willing to take ComScore data and mash it up and try to make that data answer what a Social Network is worth - I can take certainly do the same thing - as I have access to all the same data, in this case, that he does.

I think, the answers we get are based on the questions we have - people have been wondering what a Social Network is worth - that's his question, and he got an answer - it was simplistic and 2 dimensional, as many of the comments pointed out - but a damn good piece of work, anyway.

 

 

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Boston TechCrunch 11 this Friday - November 16th

Posted by Marshall on November 12, 2007 | Link It

Toying with the idea of going to the Boston TechCrunch this Friday night - Blogger and friend Sebastian over at www.WebAnayticsBook.com has tickets - and says there's an easy way to get over to Boston by bus (though I question getting on a bus for 4 hours - hanging out for three hours and then getting back on bus for another 4 hours back to NYC).

I went to TechCrunch 10 in NYC last year and it rocked - wish they'd do it here again.

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