Compete - The New Alexa?

February 4, 2008 | 2 Comments

I have to say the site name “Compete” is far more engaging and obvious as a name… As an admitted Alexa-holic, a new site that compares sites is exciting to me. It is very similar to Alexa, though they claim better data sources.

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NY Times Steps Back 5 Years

September 20, 2005 | 15 Comments

You have to wonder what the guys at NY Times are thinking. They just announced a new service called TimesSelect. One of the things being made only available to TimeSelect subscribers is “daily columns from influential Op-Ed writers” according to the site. NY Times can not be blind to the Google Economy or to the rise of blogs. Increasingly bloggers who have their fingers on the pulse of politics, current events, and public interest stories are becoming the resource for people to get opinion pieces. So why would NY Times decide to launch a service that puts their colunists behind a pay service? Either they’re going bankrupt or there is a hidden agenda I’m not seeing. They have to be making plenty off their ad revenue on the site…

I’m planning on keeping an eye on their Alexa rank after they put this in place. I bet within a few months a significnat decline in traffic becomes apparent.

In a lot of ways I think this is sad, NY Times is fairly well known for its left slant which I’m not exactly opposed to…

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