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What kind of house does AOL's money buy?
Jason Calacanis once told us that he has "all the money." He got it from selling Weblogs Inc. — home of Engadget and Autoblog, among others — to AOL for $25 million. Curious to see what kind of home that kind of money buys in Los Angeles? Check out Kara Swisher's video tour of Calacanis's guest "cottage." Watch out for the bulldogs.
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Jason Calacanis happy, verging on desperate to meet you
Attention, bottom-feeding Gothamites! Weblogs Inc. cofounder Jason Calacanis is eager to bore you to tears over dinner about how great his new venture Mahalo is. (The short version: Remember Yahoo's Web directory from 12 years ago? That's basically Mahalo.) The buntrepreneur is stuffing his bulldog-cute, apple-cheeked face full of dim sum — oops, back to fatblogging! — at the Golden Unicorn at 7:30 p.m. tonight, notes Silicon Alley Insider.
What happens when blogs fail? At AOL's Weblogs Inc., three cancelled health blogs have disappeared entirely — not even on Weblogs' list of retired blogs. [TechCrunch]
blogging for dollars
Blogs continue to sell — but blog valuations are staying modest. Discovery Communications, the cable-and-online media company, has bought enviro blog TreeHugger for a reported $10 million. With nearly 2 million unique visitors, that means Discovery paid a very modest $5 per "eyeball" — the unpleasant online-advertising slang for a reader. Contrast that to the bubbly hopes of GigaOm's Om Malik back in 2005, when he wrote about the "return of monetized eyeballs" for Business 2.0. (Full disclosure: I helped him crunch the numbers for that story.) More »
Discovery splashes a green $10 million on TreeHugger
Blogs continue to sell — but blog valuations are staying modest. Discovery Communications, the cable-and-online media company, has bought enviro blog TreeHugger for a reported $10 million. With nearly 2 million unique visitors, that means Discovery paid a very modest $5 per "eyeball" — the unpleasant online-advertising slang for a reader. Contrast that to the bubbly hopes of GigaOm's Om Malik back in 2005, when he wrote about the "return of monetized eyeballs" for Business 2.0. (Full disclosure: I helped him crunch the numbers for that story.) More »
