Comments on: Can Arianna Help AOL Figure Out How Online Content Works?

By: Arianna Huffington: Slave Owner or Crowdsourcing Pioneer?: Tech News and Analysis «

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:45:49 +0000

[...] AOL bought The Huffington Post for $315 million, some saw it as a validation of the Web 2.0 model of new media: aggregation, curation and providing [...]

By: Engadget Defection Exposes AOL’s Major Weakness: Tech News and Analysis «

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:57:32 +0000

[...] who took over control of AOL’s editorial direction shortly after The Huffington Post was acquired for $315 million in February, has said in interviews — including one with a deeply antagonistic New York Times writer in [...]

By: Why AOL Was So Desperate to Hook Up With Huffington Post: Tech News and Analysis «

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:52:56 +0000

[...] traffic and revenues have been climbing. As I wrote in a post after the acquisition was announced, the site also brings two things to AOL that it desperately needs: an understanding of how much social networks and social features matter to new media, and a sense [...]

By: NYT Editor Says It’s Only Journalism When He Does It: Tech News and Analysis «

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:36:23 +0000

[...] who labor over the making of original journalism but on aggregation,” an obvious reference to the $315-million acquisition of the Huffington Post by [...]

By: Newspapers Need to Be Of the Web, Not Just On the Web: Tech News and Analysis «

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:04:30 +0000

[...] — which created a perfect opportunity for Arianna Huffington, and helped her build a business that AOL just acquired for $315 million. It remains to be seen what kind of impact the NYT’s new “metered” pay wall will [...]

By: Tim Armstrong Is Betting AOL’s Future On Hollywood: Tech News and Analysis «

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:27:40 +0000

[...] the things the web giant has lacked on the content side is identifiable personalities, and that is clearly something the Huffington Post founder brings to the table — her site started as a collection of blogs written by famous people from various walks of [...]

By: This Week in Review: AOL’s big HuffPo buy, converging media in Egypt, and waiting on The Daily » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:02:56 +0000

[...] few miscellaneous pieces of sharp commentary: GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram said AOL needs HuffPo to help its other online content initatives figure out how the Internet [...]

By: Jack Isquith

Jack Isquith — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:11:34 +0000

The AOL purchase of HuffPo has big implications for AOL Music & the music industry in general. More thoughts here: http://bit.ly/fHvZmg

By: What the Web Is Saying About AOL’s HuffPo Purchase: Tech News and Analysis «

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:01:29 +0000

[...] of this merger, and I’ve written about my thoughts on the deal as well (I think it’s a pretty good arrangement for both, although its long-term success remains a question mark). Here’s a roundup of some of the [...]

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:10:59 +0000

1+1 = None is how I see it.