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Kevin Fitchard Jan 14, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Crowdsourcing your way to work

Moovit, the Waze of public transit, rakes in another $50M

The meteoric rise of Waze was a huge success story for the Israeli tech scene, and the country is now aiming to…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Jan 9, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Peace treaty in the works

Nick Denton says the traffic game is over, and BuzzFeed has won

In a memo to staff, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton says the site will no longer judge the value of posts purely on how much traffic they generate, and that when it comes to the readership wars, BuzzFeed has won…

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Media
Mathew Ingram Jan 6, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Size doesn't always matter

When it comes to media, not everything that counts can be counted

As Medium founder and former Twitter CEO Evan Williams points out in a recent post, there is still far too much obsession with metrics like pageviews and unique visitors instead of looking at ways of measuring real engagement by readers…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Media, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Dec 16, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- All the news fit to link

External traffic to Spanish news sites plummets after Google move

Traffic-measurement firm Chartbeat says that external traffic to Spanish news sites is down by double digits in the wake of their removal from the Google News index…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Media, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Dec 4, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Resistance is futile

So-called “dark social” traffic turns out to be mostly Facebook

Despite the fact that our ability to track and measure almost every aspect of user traffic has never been stronger, there has…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Media, Mobile, Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Dec 1, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Wooing the rest of the world

Facebook courts developers to compete with rivals in Asia

Monday Facebook's mobile app server company Parse released statistics on its biggest user growth. Its adoption in Asia has skyrocketed.…

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Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Nov 7, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Does BuzzFeed engage in clickbait? That depends on your definition

BuzzFeed strenuously denies that it engages in what some call "clickbait," which the site defines as not following through on the promise of a headline -- but that's not the only definition for clickbait, and probably not even the most common one…

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Media, Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Oct 27, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

This chart shows why publishers are right to be scared of Facebook

Facebook's traffic-driving power has more than doubled in the past year alone.…

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Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Oct 20, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Chartbeat tries to fight the smoke and mirrors in web measurement by going public with its metrics

Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile says the web-measurement and analytics market is still too full of black-box style tricks and smoke and mirrors, so he is making his company's entire measurement process and methods public in the hope that others will do likewise…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Media, Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Oct 19, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Dreamforce and OpenWorld may be fun for attendees, but for SF residents, it’s tech money run amok

Now that Salesforce.com and Oracle have released their grip on downtown SF, let's take a moment to marvel at the tech excess of their outdoor conference arenas.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Sep 29, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Chartbeat gets certified to measure attention, tries to move advertising away from clicks and pageviews

Web analytics firm Chartbeat says it is the first to be certified by the Media Ratings Council for a new way of measuring the actual attention of readers, as part of a move to get publishers and advertisers to stop focusing only on clicks and pageviews…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Media, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Aug 29, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

When does giving the reader what they want turn into clickbait? It’s complicated

The outrage over clickbait is really just a symptom of the change from a one-way, broadcast model of journalism to one in which we actually know what readers want to read -- and it's not always what we think they should…

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Media
David Meyer Aug 8, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Bitcoin scammer hijacked chunks of traffic from Amazon and others, researchers claim

The attacker redirected traffic to fool cryptocurrency miners' systems into connecting with his "mining pool" -- giving him the proceeds of their hard work.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Mathew Ingram Aug 5, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Washington Post has record traffic month after adding digital staff — is it the Bezos effect?

The Washington Post saw record traffic to its website in July, and editor-in-chief Marty Baron credits the paper's new digital projects and the addition of about 60 new editorial staff for the growth…

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Media
Mathew Ingram Aug 1, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Want to increase your readership? Forget about Twitter and stop posting so many stories, says the Telegraph

The editor-in-chief of the Telegraph Media Group says the newspaper has seen a large increase in traffic as a result of two strategies: focusing on Facebook more than Twitter, and devoting its resources to fewer stories…

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Media, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Jul 3, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

CBS website OnGamers shows why you shouldn’t rely on — or try to rig — a social network like Reddit for your traffic

The attempt to use Reddit to drive traffic to its new online-gaming news destination worked wonders for CBSi's website OnGamers, until the link-sharing community spotted what it calls vote manipulation and banned the site…

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Media, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Jun 23, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Gawker Media looks to boost traffic and wants to double staff, but its Kinja community platform still needs work

Gawker wants to add more staff and boost its traffic so that it can try to catch up to its nemesis BuzzFeed, but its ambitious Kinja commenting and community-engagement platform is having some growing pains, according to editorial director Joel Johnson…

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Media, Video
Mathew Ingram Jun 2, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Medium admits pay-per-click isn’t the best way to pay writers, still wrestling with being a platform vs. being a publisher

Medium says it is continuing to experiment with how best to compensate writers, but the recent departure of the contributing editor behind one of its collections shows there is still a tension between Medium the magazine and Medium the open platform…

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Media, Technology, Video
Cory von Wallenstein, Dyn Apr 20, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

User experience is the new differentiator. How will that affect the internet?

As businesses demand faster user experiences, the nature of the internet is going to change.…

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Technology
Lauren Hockenson Apr 18, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

LinkedIn surpasses 300M members, announces its “mobile moment”

On Friday, social network and recruiting site LinkedIn announced via blog post that it had officially surpassed 300 million members, with 100…

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Mobile, Technology
Mathew Ingram Mar 25, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

What the Oregonian’s new web strategy gets right and what it gets wrong about online media

A newspaper's leaked internal presentation on performance metrics and expectations for reporters has caused a furor about the rise of "hamster wheel" journalism, but the strategy also gets a lot of things right about where media outlets need to be focusing…

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Media, Technology, Video
Mathew Ingram Feb 18, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Reality check: No, Upworthy’s traffic didn’t get crushed by Facebook’s algorithm change

Many critics were eager to write Upworthy's obituary based on recent traffic statistics that seemed to show the site was suffering due to a change in Facebook's newsfeed algorithm, but that doesn't appear to be the case…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Media, Technology, Video
Lauren Hockenson Jan 21, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Despite rough month, Yahoo at the top of PC traffic in December

To say December wasn’t a pretty month for Yahoo (s yhoo) would be quite the understatement. Between its protracted troubles with its…

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Technology
Kevin Fitchard Aug 27, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Forget tablets. Nokia has a bigger connected gadget in mind: the car

Nokia believes its can use its role as the auto industry's mapmaker as a launchpad into the connected car. In an interview with GigaOM, Nokia Here EVP Michael Halbherr shares his vision of the Nokia-powered vehicle.…

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Cleantech, Europe, Mobile, Science & Energy, Technology

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