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- AOL's New HomePage Design (Smuggled Screenshot)
- Google Ventures Invest In HomeAway At $1.4 Billion Valuation
- Hey, We're Social Too! YouTube Passes One Billion Follows, Er, Subscriptions
- Coming Soon: 900GB Torrent Of (Mostly) Every Geocities Web Site Ever
| AOL's New HomePage Design (Smuggled Screenshot) | Top |
| It’s true. AOL is planning to launch a new homepage design next week. There have been reports, but no screenshots. Until now. A source close to AOL (but not, you know, us ) provided the screenshot above. As you can see, it maintains a consistent look and feel with the current homepage (below). But there are a few major differences. It’s going from a two-column to a three-column layout, with more splashy feature items above the fold. Instead of a single main column with rotating features at the top and news sections below, now the whole middle column will become featured items with bigger photos. The search box at the top is also more prominent, with tabs for web, image, video, maps, and news search. The directory to other AOL sites in the left sidebar is pushed down to make more room for the featured items (which drive more traffic). The first columns is still news, with latest headlines first, but the second spot now goes to “Local News” and neighborhood picks (hello, Patch?) The new, right-hand column is more focussed on discovery, with trending topics and most-shared stories. If you log in with AOL Lifestream, you can see the links and stories your friends are sharing across several social networks including Facebook,Twitter, MySpace, and YouTube. At least, that’s what it looks like from the screenshot. | |
| Google Ventures Invest In HomeAway At $1.4 Billion Valuation | Top |
| Google Ventures has invested in Austin, Texas based HomeAway , a vacation home rental service, at a $1.4 billion valuation, we’ve heard from a source. The New York Times first broke the story, but doesn’t have details on valuation or amount invested. Our source says Google Ventures invested somewhere around $25 million in the company. Google Ventures bought stock directly from existing shareholders and the money isn’t being injected into HomeAway. The valuation was set in the last round of financing, a massive $250 million raise in 2008. The company has been growing rapidly since launching in 2005, partly through acquisitions. We’ve estimated revenue to be in the $200 million range, with $70 million or so in profit. Around half a billion dollars has been invested in HomeAway to date. CrunchBase Information HomeAway Google Ventures Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Hey, We're Social Too! YouTube Passes One Billion Follows, Er, Subscriptions | Top |
| Google gets a bad rap for missing the boat on social. You know, all that stuff Facebook and Twitter do with friends, followers, and activity streams. But many of its products have had social features for a long time. YouTube reminds us of this fact by pointing out that people have subscribed to other people’s video channels more than one billion times. They are even celebrating the milestone on the YouTube logo today. If you think about it, the subscribe button on every YouTube video is very much like a follow button on Twitter. By subscribing to another user or video producer, you get all of their new videos in your personalized homepage stream when you are logged in. And you also get an email notification. It’s not quite the same as a status update, but one billion emails a week is quite a lot. There are 15 video YouTube video producers who have more than one million followers, er subscribers. To encourage more subscriptions, YouTube is releasing a subscribe widget that people can put in their blogs and websites. CrunchBase Information YouTube Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Coming Soon: 900GB Torrent Of (Mostly) Every Geocities Web Site Ever | Top |
| "[W]ebsites and hosting services should not be 'fads' any more than forests and cities should be fads – they represent countless hours of writing, of editing, of thinking, of creating. They represent their time, and they represent the thoughts and dreams of people now much older, or gone completely. There's history here. Real, honest, true history." And thus did the Archive Team set out to save the entirety of Geocities. | |
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