mashable.com — HowStuffWorks is the latest acquisition by Discovery Communications, for $250 million. While the map database doesn?t seem to be figured into the overall price of this particular acquisition, as it?s not yet profitable, this is Discovery?s largest online acquisition.
Oct 15, 2007 View in Crawl 4
rejoinedOct 15, 2007
Do you see a trend of what's happening here ? Remember that 'Treehugger' site? (Don't remember the actual address of it). Articles from that site used to hit Digg on a very frequent basis. Not a whole lot lately, or maybe I've missed coming across their artcles on Digg. And then it got acquired by Discovery.Now, lately I've been seeing a ton of articles from 'HowStuffWorks' hitting the Digg front page, getting a ton of Diggs (to be fair, their articles are reasonably good) and presto...it gets acquired by Discovery also. I may be wildly speculating, but I have a hunch that these sites' popularity on Digg..and thereby indirectly or directly having a trickle down popularity effect on the whole web community in general, was a major factor in that decision to acquire. Then again, I maybe totally off the track on this.But, I'm pretty much confident when I say, that these sites' popularity on Difg had a major hand in influencing that decision, which leads to the point that Digg has become a very important, and influential player on the Net...and I really feel good about that.Also, when I was writing this comment...I came across this:<a class="user" href="http://i24.tinypic.com/mkhpnb.png">http://i24.tinypic.com/mkhpnb.png</a>Is this happening only to me, or other users have faced the same weird commenting problem?
etruscanOct 15, 2007
Or, get high and then search for Marijuana on Howstuffworks.com - and get stuck inside a paradox............................ IN YOUR MIND.
ipodman715Oct 16, 2007
Umm.. How It's Made is what are looking for. It's on the Discovery channel.
fafaforzaOct 16, 2007
The very bane of the Internet's existance is to show the masses how babies are made. And the Internet has been extremely successful at it.
desertdudeOct 20, 2007
Let's hope the first thing they do is improve the dismal search engine.