Source:  Techmeme
Posted by: Geoff Caplan
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1
TechCrunch
5.01%
Link
techcrunch.com

2
VentureBeat
3.27%
Link
venturebeat.com

3
CNET News
3.19%
Link
news.cnet.com

4
Ars Technica
2.79%
Link
arstechnica.com

5
New York Times
2.35%
Link
nytimes.com

6
Silicon Alley Insider
2.02%
Link
businessinsider.com/ alleyinsider

7
ReadWriteWeb
1.91%
Link
readwriteweb.com

8
AppleInsider
1.71%
Link
appleinsider.com

9
Bits
1.68%
Link
bits.blogs.nytimes.com

10
Wall Street Journal
1.66%
Link
online.wsj.com/public/us

11
Engadget
1.60%
Link
engadget.com

12
TorrentFreak
1.37%
Link
torrentfreak.com

13
Reuters
1.22%
Link
news.yahoo.com/i/578

14
Techdirt
1.20%
Link
techdirt.com

15
The Register
1.19%
Link
theregister.co.uk

16
Computerworld
1.17%
Link
computerworld.com

17
Gizmodo
1.12%
Link
gizmodo.com

18
Bloomberg
1.08%

bloomberg.com/news/ index.html

19
Boy Genius Report
1.06%
Link
boygeniusreport.com

20
Between the Lines
0.98%
Link
blogs.zdnet.com/BTL

21
MediaMemo
0.97%
Link
mediamemo.allthingsd.com

22
Digits
0.93%
Link
blogs.wsj.com/digits

23
MacRumors
0.87%
Link
macrumors.com

24
PC World
0.83%
Link
pcworld.com

25
TechFlash
0.83%
Link
techflash.com

26
BoomTown
0.79%
Link
kara.allthingsd.com

27
Forbes
0.78%
Link
forbes.com

28
Webware.com
0.77%
Link
news.cnet.com/webware

29
Guardian
0.77%
Link
guardian.co.uk

30
Apple 2.0
0.73%
Link
apple20.blogs.fortune. cnn.com

31
Business Week
0.72%
Link
businessweek.com

32
Microsoft
0.69%

microsoft.com/presspass/ default.mspx

33
Tech Trader Daily
0.68%
Link
blogs.barrons.com/ techtraderdaily

34
NewTeeVee
0.66%
Link
newteevee.com

35
paidContent.org
0.66%
Link
paidcontent.org

36
L.A. Times Tech Blog
0.64%
Link
latimesblogs.latimes.com/ technology

37
Epicenter
0.62%
Link
blog.wired.com/business

38
GigaOM
0.61%
Link
gigaom.com

39
Associated Press
0.55%
Link
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/ fronts/HOME

40
BBC
0.52%
Link
news.bbc.co.uk

41
Fortune
0.50%
Link
fortune.com

42
Washington Post
0.49%
Link
washingtonpost.com

43
Financial Times
0.49%
Link
ft.com

44
All about Microsoft
0.47%
Link
blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft

45
Search Engine Land
0.46%
Link
searchengineland.com

46
Beyond Binary
0.44%
Link
news.cnet.com/ beyond-binary

47
DigiTimes
0.44%
Link
digitimes.com

48
eWeek
0.43%
Link
eweek.com

49
Facebook Blog
0.41%
Link
blog.facebook.com

50
The Official Google Blog
0.41%
Link
googleblog.blogspot.com

51
Gawker
0.41%
Link
gawker.com

52
Mercury News
0.40%
Link
mercurynews.com

53
GamesIndustry.biz
0.39%
Link
gamesindustry.biz

54
A VC
0.39%
Link
avc.com/a_vc

55
AdAge
0.38%
Link
adage.com

56
PE Hub Blog
0.38%
Link
pehub.com

57
InfoWorld
0.38%
Link
infoworld.com

58
Business Wire
0.37%

businesswire.com

59
The Windows Blog
0.36%
Link
windowsteamblog.com/blogs

60
Inside Facebook
0.35%
Link
insidefacebook.com

61
O’Reilly [...]

It’s literally been ten years since Yahoo updated its online calendar. And it’s been more than two years since Google launched its Web-based calendar. But tonight it will start rolling out a new drag-and-drop, Ajax calendar in a closed beta to Yahoo Mail users in the U.S., UK, India, Taiwan, and Brazil. You can [...]

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NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal is borrowing elements from popular Internet hangouts like Facebook as it seeks to boost usage.

WSJ.com, one of the few news sites to restrict many of its stories to paying subscribers, is changing its layout to help nonpaying visitors navigate and identify free, ad-supported content. Those [...]

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WAKEFIELD, MA - February 8, 2007 -North American advertisers spent $9.4 billion on search engine marketing (SEM) in 2006, a 62 percent increase over 2005 spending, according to an annual industry survey conducted by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) www.sempo.org. SEMPO researchers also estimate SEM spending to double by 2011, [...]

Yahoo! has expanded its “Buzz Up” content recommendation service to include many more publishers, stepping up its challenge against Digg.Almost any publisher can now add a Buzz Up button to its Web site, Yahoo said. If a Web site doesn’t have a button, users can also submit a link to the content via Yahoo.
Buzz Up [...]

Google’s lead over competitors has almost gotten embarrassing. The company grew its market share by roughly 1 percent in November, and by nearly 10 percent from November 2006, according to Compete.com.
The news is particularly bad for Yahoo, whose market share fell nearly 1 percent sequentially and roughly 7 percent from the year-ago period. If it’s [...]

What exactly did Google do to create such a fervent enemy-combatant in the media company Viacom? Ever since we learned of the collapse of discussions over carrying Viacom cable content on YouTube, Viacom has been on an apparent crusade to bring Google to its knees.
After months of negotiations to give Google’s YouTube permission to display [...]

While Microsoft has dominated sales of personal computer operating systems and business software, it’s lagged behind rivals Google and Yahoo! in terms of Web search traffic and online ad sales. Analysts are divided on whether Microsoft will be able to mount a serious challenge to Google in the Web search space.
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