Briefs: NBC, Xbox, Huffington, TechCrunch

Cory Bergman March 30th, 2008

- NBC owned-and-operated sites to nearly double sales teams
- Veteran Hollywood producer set to make original shows for Xbox
- The story behind HuffingtonPost.com’s rapid rise to internet stardom
- MPAA calls on ISPs to proactively pull the plug on copyright offenders
- Behind-the-scenes in the Engadget vs. Gizmodo gadget blog battle
- TechCrunch poised to crack 3M uniques a month, now #1 on Technorati

4 Comments Add your own

1. Anonymous | March 31st, 2008 at 6:45 am

“Drudge still records seven times the monthly page views of The Huffington Post, meaning that readers are frequently refreshing for the latest headlines.”

In actuality, Drudge has his entire page automatically reload every 180 seconds, so anybody who simply leaves the page open, even in the background, is counted numerous times. HuffPo uses AJAX to update content without refreshing the page. There is, of course, a long-running argument against the relevance of page views as a metric when AJAX is employed, but Drudge’s auto-refresh practice just makes use of the metric a joke.
2. Safran | March 31st, 2008 at 3:00 pm

“NBC O&O Sites to nearly double sales teams”:

Good for them. It’s a simple equation: the more sales people you have, the more you sell. Combine this news with the report from Borrell that 75% of local station inventory is going unsold, and you can see the inarguable logic.
3. gralnick | March 31st, 2008 at 6:17 pm

is this safran related to “our” safran? and if not, alas poor our safran.
4. This Safran is Still Me | April 1st, 2008 at 4:15 am

Yes, JG, it’s still me. Good to see you’re still monitoring the ol’ LR stomping grounds.

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