10 days ago by therealjimlove

Social search - Our expert panel looks at Google Wave as an industry giant tries makes its big move into the social networking arena. Our featured interview is with Alan Meckler, Chairman and CEO of WebMediaBrands, owner of such “gamechanging” online properties as MediaBistro and Graphics.com. Alan ...

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42 days ago by Glynnis MacNicol

Last week WebMediaBrands CEO Alan Meckler had media tongues wagging when he twittered out that his company (formerly Jupiter Media) was “on the prowl for acquisitions” igniting rumors that it might be interested in purchasing PaidContent should that company be for sale (it’s unclear whether it is). ...

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91 days ago by Mark Hefflinger

New York - WebMediaBrands (NASD: WEBM), the online media company run by publishing industry veteran Alan Meckler, announced on Monday that it is selling its Internet.com family of technology trade publications to marketing firm QuinStreet for about $18 million. "We believe that this transaction will ...

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91 days ago by Chris Crum

WebMediaBrands (formerly JupiterMedia) has just announced that it is selling Internet.com for $18 million to QuinStreet Inc. QuinStreet calls itself the leader in online performance-based vertical marketing. “We believe that this transaction will be beneficial to WebMediaBrands and its stockholders ...

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145 days ago by Ryan Tate

Amanda Carpenter provided a gendered response to the Ensign scandal; MC Hammer shamed a writer and Choire Sicha revealed Awl. For the Twitterati, it was a day to discuss secrets. Finance writer...

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147 days ago by photosecrets

PHOTOGRAPHY & PHILANTHROPY – GETTY IMAGES & COMPASSIONATE EYE FOUNDATION CONTINUE TO CREATE A DIFFERENCE FOR CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD Ellen Herbert and I go back some time now. First I met her when she worked at Jeff Burke’s and Lorraine Triolo’s PictureArts in Pasadena. As a side note Jeff will be ...

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193 days ago by Owen Thomas

It's a horrible disease that threatens everyone's well-being! No, not the swine flu, silly — we're talking Twitter. Alan Meckler, Jon Fine, and Patrick Gavin were among today's victims:...

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206 days ago by Owen Thomas

The advent of Oprah has not changed the inanity of Twitter. Today, Bonnie Fuller met someone supercute, Karen Tumulty landed in the wrong spot, and Alex Blagg recommended meth! Erstwhile checkout-line tastemaker Bonnie Fuller found someone who made her seem less loathsome by comparison. Time writer ...

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209 days ago by Owen Thomas

Twitter is the ideal medium to express your own idiocy. Dan Abrams denounces the mainstream media which gave birth to his career, a Google-enriched entrepreneur eats its free lunch, and Alan Meckler discovers Twitter: MSNBC commentator Dan Abrams inveigled against the horrors of the "mainstream medi ...

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209 days ago by Owen Thomas

Failed Internet mogul Alan Meckler is really excited about the Semantic Web, aka Web 3.0! And who can blame him, since he pretty much failed at versions 1.0 and 2.0? Meckler, who has run a passel of third-rate Internet websites since the early '90s, when he was best-known for trade titles like CD-RO ...

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