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Most Popular Online Media Sites Among Bloggers
May 16, 2009 at 10:36 am

Following a list of mainstream media websites that get maximum "link love" from bloggers. Or in other words, these 50 websites are the top sources of news for bloggers and thus are linked (or cited) most frequently from blogs.

With a few exceptions like BBC, Telegraph, Daily Mail & Guardian, most of the online media sites that tend to get most links from blog are based out of America.

Top 50 News Sources for Bloggers on the Web

Rank 1-10	Rank 11-20	Rank 21-30	Rank 31-40	Rank 41-50
1. The New York Times	11. FOX News	21. Slate	31. Salon	41. Science Daily
2. Guardian UK	12. The Boston Globe	22. CBS News	32. Chicago Tribune	42. Market Watch
3. The Wall Street Journal	13. USA Today	23. Google News (AP)	33. Newsweek	43. People
4. The Washington Post	14. Daily Mail	24. Wired	34. CNN Money	44. Miami Herald
5. CNN	15. Time Magazine	25. Financial Times .	35. CBC	45. The Seattle Times
6. Telegraph UK	16. BBC News	26. PBS	36. Yahoo! Finance	46. Yahoo! Sports
7. Yahoo! News	17. National Public Radio - NPR	27. NY Post	37. The Economist	47. The Dallas Morning News
8. MSNBC	18. NY Daily News	28. San Francisco Examiner	38. New York Magazine	48. San Jose Mercury News
9. The Los Angeles Times	19. Forbes	29. Business Week	39. Philly.com	49. Star Tribune
10. Reuters	20. San Francisco Chronicle	30. The White House	40. The Houston Chronicle

This list, known as Technorati Attention Index, illustrates the strong influence of mainstream online media in the blogosphere. And the higher the number of incoming links to a news site in the past 30 days, the higher the rank of that site will be in the Attention index.

International Herald Tribune (iht.com) is not part of the list as it has merged with The New York Times website (nyt.com) but the biggest surprise here is the absence of Christian Science Monitor website which recently ceased their print edition and switched to a web-only format.

Associated Press (AP) is probably represented by Google News in the index since that’s where AP stories are currently hosted on the Internet.

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From Dot.com to Dot.gone - Web 2.0 Start-ups That Have Vanished
May 16, 2009 at 8:45 am

This illustration was created in early 2006 using logos of Web 2.0 companies that made headlines or were launched around that time. You can scan through the archives of TechCrunch or Mashable to read more about any of these Internet start-ups.

Web 2.0 Logo Map - Original Version

web logos of 2006

Obviously, lot of things changed in the last three years - some companies got acquired, some became successful on their own while others went bust.

Meg Pickard of Guardian went back to the drawing board and updated the original Web 2.0 map to mark companies that either vanished or were acquired in these years. Here’s her updated version of the chart.

Web 2.0 Companies That Got Acquired or Vanished

web companies of 2009

A pink cross means that the company is dead now while green circles mark companies that got acquired.

Obviously there are some companies like XDrive that were acquired but still closed shop so you see both a cross and circle against their logo. And two greens circles, as seen on the logo of Pegasus News, means that the company was acquired twice in the same period.

Game Web 2.0 Over? - Picture Credits: Meg Pickard & Stabilo Boss [via]

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