Posts with category: Engadget
A week from CES eve
Looking over our CES wrapup posts from 2005, 2006, and 2007 has me so excited. Last year we finally broke threshold of news vs. coverage capacity (and how!), but this year’s going to be completely off the chain (and not just because Veronica‘s doing our video). So yeah, if I sound a little less stressed, [...]
Guess what’s going to win 2007 Gadget of the Year
Today I kicked off possibly my favorite Engadget activity of the year and opened up nominations for the 2007 Engadget Awards. Part of the rules of nominating a gadget for the award, though — as outlined TWICE in bold text — is that you shouldn’t nominate the same gadget more than once. Most people don’t, [...]
I guess I’m a web celeb!
Wow, Forbes did me the great honor of ranking me among this year’s Web Celeb 25. Hard to imagine I’ll be able to pull this one off twice, but for now I’m definitely in good company, along with Om, FSJ, Mike, Kevin, and everyone else. Oh, bonus extra profile action here. I think I’m going [...]
Engadget, crushing family owned cable TV channels since 2004
WealthTV has a totally hilarious anti-Engadget conspiracy theorist / linkbait press release. My reply. If only all posts were as fun to write as that one.
Why Engadget isn’t on Kindle
I’ve been getting a flood of questions from colleagues, readers, fans, friends, bookworms, etc. asking why Engadget (and the rest of Weblogs, Inc.) isn’t among the blogs being aggregated on Kindle. It’s a fair question with a simple answer. The folks at Amazon did reach out to our team to try to set up a [...]
And now for a word on Zune
Since I just had a word on Apple, probably appropriate that I mention what’s up with Zune! It’s been a crazy busy week but those waiting for my next Zune 2.0 review — or just looking forward to harshing on me some more — can look forward to tomorrow, since I’m hoping to get that [...]
Profiled in Fortune, where’s the fight?
Fortune did a profile on us vs. them packed full of trite boxing riffs — the spin being, of course, that there’s this huge, bitter public rivalry between us and Gizmodo. I wasn’t sure how they were going to pull it off since it has all the makings of a non-story: two very different publications [...]
CNET CEO Neil Ashe writes off Engadget
Check out this quote from a paidContent interview with CNET CEO Neil Ashe: “While others in the blogging community have anointed themselves as CNET competitors, the reality is that CNET is 20 to 50 times the size of any of those. CNET added more users in a month than the audience Engadget and Gizmodo combined [...]
Quote: Engadget drives 14x more clicks than TechCrunch
Spark Capital VC Bijan Sabet quoted: “We’ve had a fair share of press releases that have gone out on the wire and I don’t see much return from that. We had one investment company get picked up on Engadget and got a 14:1 return versus a mention on TechCrunch.” There’s no way you could extrapolate [...]
Google ranks being restored; fun with algos
Last week’s Google ranking smackdown hit a lot of high profile sites (Engadget included). Was it just been an unfortunate fluke, or did it spring a bunch of these publications (Engadget included) into action, encouraging them to take a closer look at how Google perceives their sites? I’m not entirely sure which, but it looks [...]
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