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AOL buys the Huffington Post for $315 million.

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  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
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  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    Didn't they buy netscape and bebu?
  • WindUpBirdWindUpBird
    Yeah. Arianna Huffington now has full control over all the media output through AOL. That was part of the deal.
  • DaikunDaikun
    Didn't they buy netscape and bebu?
    Netscape has been dead for a few years.

    AOL bought Bebo in 2008, but then had to sell it last year.
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    Didn't they buy netscape and bebu?
    Netscape has been dead for a few years.

    AOL bought Bebo in 2008, but then had to sell it last year.
    Well done for clarifying my points.
  • AndrewAndrew
    Yeah. Arianna Huffington now has full control over all the media output through AOL. That was part of the deal.
    I thought the merger might have been good for HuffPo. Arianna Huffington supported way too much pseudo-scientific bullshit which definitely showed in the website. This disturbs me as she now has a much larger soapbox for her dangerous views.
  • MattMatt
    Yeah. Arianna Huffington now has full control over all the media output through AOL. That was part of the deal.
    I thought the merger might have been good for HuffPo. Arianna Huffington supported way too much pseudo-scientific bullshit which definitely showed in the website. This disturbs me as she now has a much larger soapbox for her dangerous views.
    Couldn't agree with you more on this one. From what I know about her, I don't like what I hear at all. Not looking forward to her having more influence in this world.
  • NuriNuri
    Yeah. Arianna Huffington now has full control over all the media output through AOL. That was part of the deal.
    I thought the merger might have been good for HuffPo. Arianna Huffington supported way too much pseudo-scientific bullshit which definitely showed in the website. This disturbs me as she now has a much larger soapbox for her dangerous views.
    HuffPo's growth was slowing as it reached a size that didn't really allow for more expansion under the business model. Selling to AOL now is a smart move for Arianna. She made an assload of money on this venture. The main question is whether Arianna's content aggregation strategies will work for AOL the same way they did for HuffPo, or if she can adapt to a new strategy that works when they do not.
  • CremlianCremlian
    I thought the merger might have been good for HuffPo. Arianna Huffington supported way too much pseudo-scientific bullshit which definitely showed in the website. This disturbs me as she now has a much larger soapbox for her dangerous views.
    I never took Arianna as supporting the BS on the website as much as tolerating it since it drew more people to the site.
  • TorontoKevTorontoKev
    This disturbs me as she now has a much larger soapbox for her dangerous views.
    Hmm, which are her "dangerous" views? I don't read her commentary much but I listen to her as 1 of 3 panelists on "Left Right & Center" on KCRW almost every week and she seems fairly sensible to my ears. Please edumacate me!
  • AndrewAndrew
    edited February 2011
    I never took Arianna as supporting the BS on the website as much as tolerating it since it drew more people to the site.
    Is there a difference?
    Hmm, which are her "dangerous" views? I don't read her commentary much but I listen to her as 1 of 3 panelists on "Left Right & Center" on KCRW almost every week and she seems fairly sensible to my ears. Please edumacate me!
    Arianna actively provides an a soapbox for anti-vaccination proponents, new age weirdos like Deepak Chopra, pro-Intelligent Design and creationist quacks, and homeopaths.
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  • CremlianCremlian
    Is there a difference?
    Yea there is, because I also see lots of pro-vaccination and pro-science stuff as well. She doesn't limit who she lets speak on her website as bloggers. While that is giving them a platform that's a bit different then endorsing.
  • gomidoggomidog
    Arianna actively provides an a soapbox for anti-vaccination proponents, new age weirdos like Deepak Chopra, pro-Intelligent Design and creationist quacks, and homeopaths.
    Indeed. My mom stopped going there because of, in her words, "too much woo."
  • TorontoKevTorontoKev
    Okay. Well, I tend not to read those articles. But I do seem to agree with her on a lot of political things. She started pretty strong Republican and is now a left leaning Democrat on most issues. I respect someone who reassesses themselves rather than think of political viewpoints as a "tribe" which one is born to and defends and attacks as such.
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