A few years ago, we published a list of companies who ruled the Internet each year, from 1994-2007. Then, we forgot to update it for 2008-2010. On this week’s HipMojo show, we run down the list and picked a company for 2008, 2009, and 2010… and then open it up for you to suggest companies for 2011. Vote for the company of the Year below in the Comments, feel free to vote for the company you work for, but explain WHY, what was the one thing or many things that made the company stand out from the noise? continue reading...

Nick Denton is getting out of blogs, sort of, by repositioning the look and feel (and to some extent its editorial direction) of his Gawker Media network of blogs, hum, I mean, online magazines: continue reading...

Not sure why it took Nick Denton this long to realize that marketers care most about uniques, but either way, interesting read on Gawker’s new found interest in uniques over pageviews.

Read more.  And no, I wasn’t calling Nick stupid, it’s an expression. continue reading...

Funny to see web entrepreneurs Loic LeMeur and Om Malik duke it out in the comments section of this entry, on Veoh’s layoffs, which was reported first by Valleywag, and confirmed to varying extent by PaidContent.

Says Seesmic founder Loic: continue reading...

I am calling BS on Nick Denton.  Let me explain.

Yes, no one is immune to the economy, not even online media.  However, I think Nick Denton is using the recession and accompanying slowdown in advertising spending to cut some fat. continue reading...

I’d say success is equal or a function of vision, ambition, execution, luck and timing… Nick Denton’s says timing’s got a lot to do with it.  Read more here via Valleywag:

A British-born Financial Times beat reporter sent to cover Silicon Valley during the dotcom boom, Denton reinvented himself as a technology entrepreneur. He sold a dotcom events business, First Tuesday, in a luckily timed deal as the bubble was bursting. He briefly entangled himself in an online newsfeeds venture called iSyndicate before starting a direct competitor, Moreover (that’s “more OH ver,” you Yanks.) But he quit as CEO years before VeriSign bought the company. He’s the first to admit that his success is more from good timing than hard work. continue reading...

For a few years, the newspaper industry put Craig Newmark in a category of people that included Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin for having the audacity to encroach on their classifieds monopoly.

This year, having elevated Gawker Media as a likely candidate for company of 2008 as early as January, expect to see Nick Denton join Newmark in that category of people who are harming the venerable business of printing newspapers and magazines. continue reading...

Are blogs “sellable” to big media companies?

Felix Salmon of Portfolio.com says yes, countering the viewpoint of BreakingViews (by the way, I agree 100% about his observations about BV. How backwards is the no-copy and paste function?). continue reading...

Yesterday, BubbleGeneration’s Umair Haque set off a storm by suggesting that tech blog networks are peaking. I agree that the signal-to-noise ratio in the technology blog network space has gone down considerably. While many of these blogs are hiring from traditional media, established publications are firing back with their own blogs and blog networks. CNET for one has been very aggressive, even appointing blogger Dan Farber to become editor in chief at News.com (of course, Farber is so much more than a mere blogger).

In fact, in the past year, many of these technology blogs have gone from being a one-site, one-man operation to a multi-site property hiring large operational and editorial teams. In a few instances, companies have even raised considerable funding. The quest to build an audience and generate ad revenues has pitted many of these sites in a competitive and cooperative dynamic that might indeed suggest that most of these sites have peaked. continue reading...

We updated our Annual Internet company of the year list. The winner for 2007 was Facebook, who was both the editor’s and readers’ choice. Facebook joins the 13 other companies we had selected from 1994-2006, see the entire list.

Who will be the Web’s company of the year in 2008? continue reading...