MacBlips and GadgetBlips Launch to Capture Leading Tech Stories (10)
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When I met with Jason and Erin Gurney of Ballhype and Showhype fame earlier this year, I practically sold them on the idea of launching an Apple Macintosh-focused site, which would distill the many Apple related stories from around the Web and provide a centralized site where Mac fans could discuss news, rumors and find a community with other Mac fans. Today, with the launch of MacBlips, they made good on that idea. And as ...
Holly Smokes Batman, two Digg clones sell for $3 million (13)
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Ballhype and Showhype, two Digg clones focusing on sport and pop culture respectively have sold for $3 million, according to Louis Gray and others. My initial reaction when visiting the sites was “OMG, Pligg installs” but a quick search of Google quickly changed my tune to “OMG, custom built Digg clones built on Django.” Still, $3 million for a pair of sites that just scrape into the Alexa top 10,000 is an utterly brilliant deal, ...
$3M for BallHype (8)
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The husband and wife behind BallHype and ShowHype, two Digg clones that focus on baseball and entertainment news, have earned a modest pay day: $3 million from media group Future US. That’s not bad given the two never raised institutional funding since launching the first site (BallHype) in April 2007. Users of BallHype and ShowHype (which launched in October 2007) vote up their favorite stories, and these stories hit the homepage page as they would ...
BallHype Acquired by Future US In Attempt to Join Big Leagues (6)
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After 18 months of progressing beyond the rookie stages of product development, Ballhype, the sports story discovery, submission and voting site, announced this morning that they have been acquired by Future US, a San Francisco-based media company. The purchase, for an undisclosed amount, enables the company's properties, including BallHype and a sister site, ShowHype, focused on entertainment news and gossip, to continue, but with a partner to help increase their monetization as traffic and engagement ...
LOUD3R Launches Massive Semantically-Driven Network (1)
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As I mentioned in yesterday's story on OneSpot, the quest to separate the wheat from the chaff in news and blogs through leveraging RSS and social tools is a vibrant market. Whether Web users are relying on Digg, Slashdot and Reddit to bring the hottest items to the top, or if they are instead turning to automated memetrackers like Techmeme to rank stories' popularity, a lot of people are asking to not read every single ...
