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Don Dodge thinks Yahoo’s 2003 acquisition of Overture was 8th worst billion dollar acquisition of an Internet company. I would probably put it at the top of my best billion dollar Internet acquisitions list (if I did keep such a list). Yahoo got Overture at a low valuation (about 2x revenue) and gave Yahoo major […]

I’m going to be at the SIME conference tomorrow and Thursday.

Hans Kullin on social networking sites and Alexa pageviews.
There are a lot of problems with looking at Alexa pageview numbers for social networking sites (or any site). Alexa has a funky way of measuring pageviews (looking at accessed unique URL:s instead of counting pageviews). In addition Alexa has self-selection bias which seems to an advantage […]