VNU partners with Gizmodo

Information and media company VNU has inked a deal with Gawker media, the creator of of Gizmodo and other popular blogs to provide its audience with both original and localised content.

Under the terms of the partnership, Gizmodo's content will be translated from English into six European languages and beefed up with local content from VNU's bloggers.

VNU is also looking for potential bloggers to blog to Gizmodo for payment and is asking passionate technology bloggers to apply, with links to exisiting blogs if available.

In addtion, VNU in the UK has launched its personal blogging service that offers its readers the chance to set up blogs hosted on the VNU Network

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October 4, 2005 at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Firefox hits 25 million downloads in 100 days

MOZILLA FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 25 MILLION DOWNLOADS OF FIREFOX BROWSER

Non profit making,  Mozilla Foundation announced that its Firefox browser has been downloaded more than 25 million times. Released less than 100-days-ago, Firefox has quickly become the mainstay on many business as well as consumer desktops and is snapping at the heels of Microsoft's Internet Explorer dominance.

Spreadfirefox.com has also mushroomed. The volunteer advocacy group charged with promoting the browser around the world, has grown to more than 70,000 members. Spread Firefox was developed on the same model as the open source software itself.

"Twenty five million Firefox downloads is a significant achievement, and we see that number continuing to grow," said Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. "

February 16, 2005 at 07:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Make some sense of your AdSense

Fred Wilson, a venture capital investor and blogger in New York is ready to go on strike, an AdSense strike that is. The blogger feels he isn't getting a fair deal from Google's advertisement programme.

His blog attracts a different, more attractive audience than the site where the kid from around the corner muses about the taste of the beer he had last night. Google however pays the same fee to both "publishers".

"I think the audience on my blog is worth more than $0.175 per click and I am going to find a way to get that number up," Wislon writes in a post today. Running Google ads over the past nine months has made him a cool $313.48.

Wilson has a point, but it's something Google at this point can't do too much about. The few bloggers who do make money, like London based Rafat Ali, don't use Google. Looks like there is an opening for a Google competitor.

December 15, 2004 at 09:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)