AOL: one letter away from LOL.
The story: AOL is buying Huffington Post for $315 million. Three hundred fifteen million dollars for a website that “counts nearly 25 million unique monthly visitors.”
Naturally, Stacy McCain can’t stand it:
I’m sorry: $315 million for 25 million monthly uniques? No, that’s crazy.
To which I say: dude! Shut up!
Here at The Trog, we’ve been averaging about 34,000 “unique visitors” (as StatCounter counts them) over the last six months, meaning HuffPo gets about 735.3 times the hits that I do.
$315 million divided by 735.3 is $428,396.57.
Sold! I’ll even round that down to $425,000 and buy all the drinks!
See, AOL? While other bloggers are mocking you and offering to “let you over pay for them, too,” I’m offering you a comparative deal!
Memeorandum, which didn’t actually lead me to the story, but I’m linking there anyway because I’d like to get my monthly unique visitors closer to 25 million.
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I think it actually worth more than 315 million, Im quite surprised she sold for that, given that worthless startups are commonly funded for more.
I like what I see from AOL trying to shepard worthwhile content, its about time somebody invested in the web that is, versus the web that will never be.
If AOL doesnt destroy these properties its acquiring it will be a great lesson to Yahoo: stop destroying the web, and start growing with it.
The native americans taught european settlers how to farm WITH the land and not against it. This is your lesson Yahoo.