Joining Polaris Ventures Partners
August 2, 2009 – 5:28 pm | Comments

I am excited to announce that, starting Monday, I will be joining Polaris Venture Partners and will work out of the Dog Patch Lab on Pier 38. Over the last few years, I have had …

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Tiger Woods Propels TMZ to 51st Most Visited Website
January 13, 2010 – 9:27 pm | Comments
Tiger Woods Propels TMZ to 51st Most Visited Website

These days, sponsors might not like Tiger Woods… but TMZ sure does.
Steady at 3-4.5m daily pageviews, the news surrounding Tiger Woods over Thanksgiving doubled TMZ’s traffic, propelled them to the 51st most visited website, and …

Michael Jackson Drives Perez Hilton to Record 2m Uniques in Day
June 30, 2009 – 7:58 am | Comments
Michael Jackson Drives Perez Hilton to Record 2m Uniques in Day

Michael Jackson’s death was remarkable in several ways – one of which was what it signified for news delivery and discovery. Like millions of others, I first found out through Facebook, Twitter, text messages… all …

Widgetbox Breaks 100m Monthly Uniques, Introduces Facebook Connect
June 19, 2009 – 8:22 pm | Comments
Widgetbox Breaks 100m Monthly Uniques, Introduces Facebook Connect

Today Widgetbox reached a significant milestone in its three-year history: 100,000,000 monthly uniques (covered by TechCrunch here). Measured by Quantcast, our widgets are now seen by 100.5m unique users each month and served over 700m …

IRS.gov: The Web’s Hottest Property
March 29, 2009 – 6:31 pm | Comments

Nearly 30 million monthly uniques according to Quantcast – placing IRS.gov as the 26th biggest website. The 30m uniques represents 10x growth since January 1st:

Perez Hilton Hits 14,000,000 Pageviews Yesterday. Wow.
February 24, 2009 – 2:11 pm | Comments

You might not be interested in celebrity news and gossip…
You might not consider it important or meaningful…
But to the web, it is significant and marks a major move in the Digital Media space.
I’ve written …

Hulu’s Lazy Sunday: Family Guy & Saturday Night Live Clips?
December 31, 2008 – 2:48 pm | Comments
Hulu’s Lazy Sunday: Family Guy & Saturday Night Live Clips?

I love Hulu.
Hulu understands the web, delivers great quality, the experience is simple, and understands both search and portability…. better than any other video site on the web.
When YouTube hit it big, much credit …

ComScore Announces Self Service Model – Coming After Quantcast?
September 9, 2008 – 7:43 am | Comments

At the poorly-attended breakfast session at TechCrunch 50 (maybe because its 8am) – ComScore has announced quietly that they are releasing a self-service model “in the next few days”. A publisher will be able to …

Widgetbox’s Network Breaks 60,000,000 Monthly Uniques
August 22, 2008 – 9:28 pm | Comments

About two weeks, Widgetbox unveiled a new look and navigation. At that time, we launched hubs for partners and advertisers with a promo-graphic touting the network’s 56,000,000 monthly uniques – a number we are quite …

Widgetbox Relaunches Widgetbox.com: Partners, Advertisers, Games & More
August 7, 2008 – 9:50 pm | Comments

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Tonight, Widgetbox officially relaunched its website with an entirely new navigation structure… and it’s now blue!

Three important changes …

Techmeme’s Leaderboard is Shifting: Nearly 1/3rd of Leaderboard is New
July 12, 2008 – 1:53 pm | Comments

I’ve analyzed Techeme’s Leaderboard several times before (headlines vs. discussions, ‘presence’ vs. pageviews, etc) and thought it would be worthwhile to understand movement within the leaderboard.
I compared Techmeme’s Leaderboard on May 14 vs. today’s current …

Long Tail Analytics with Quantcast, Google Trends & Compete – Who Wins?
June 21, 2008 – 11:28 pm | Comments

Google entered the public web analytics game yesterday by expanding Google Trends beyond search queries and into web traffic. Just a couple years ago, we had two options for web data:
- Comscore provided detailed analytics …

Google Trends Launches – Apparently I’m Techmeme’s 3rd Most Overlapped Site? (No Way!)
June 20, 2008 – 12:45 pm | Comments

Google today announced that they are moving Google Trends closer towards Quantcast and Compete’s territories… This is potentially big news – but it depends on how transparent Google decides to be and how well integrated …