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- TheWriteGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Nah. This would be more akin to taking out the G4 part and returning the rest to Ziff-Davis.
- rauz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Well they used to be owned by Lycos so it really doesn't count if they get bought up by Condé Nast.
It's very weird that Wired and Wired News hasn't had the same owner before. - dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7after spending 2 days as an intern at lycos, i can say they're headed for the front page of ***** any day now.
take that suckers, i never signed that NDA - titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Will this be TechTV and G4 all over again?
- allaboutdatiki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5$25 million for a news site with no staff writers? According to this article, they went through a round of whacking just last year:
http://news.com.com/Editorial+layoffs+hit+Wired+News/2100-1025_3-5805667.html
Remember when Wired was cool? - myrab, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Oh good, more media consolidation... (Sarcasm mode off now.)
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wait, Wired web and Wired mag were separate entities?
- pabloD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wired mag is so *****. It used to be great: cutting edge articles & design; a wonderful, non-standard format which was a plearure to read; fun on-press effects to tantalize the reader every once in a while. Then Condé Nast-y bought them out, and it became one long ad. Seriously. Go pick up a copy of Wired, and see if you can separate the editorial content from the advertising. It gets harder every month. Aexny, I had the same thing happen to me with Wired print and the North Shore collection agency, along with a bunch of other people. It's actually illegal for them to refer you to a collection agency for a subscription renewal fee (as opposed to an actual unpaid bill), and some dude a while back either sued them or something similar. I read about it on digg, as a matter of fact. They were supposed to have quit doing that after the incident, but I guess that just goes to show how wonderful the people over at Condé are.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the paper mag has gone down hill since conde took over.
it now seems to be a half ass attempt at cool by editors of a girl magazine - not nearly as cutting edge as in the past. - sh0k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope this won't affect the blogs (27B stroke 6)...
- sriracha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2One of the biggest stupidities here is that Lycos blew Wired's valuation in part due to bloated server code. I'm in SF, a few hundred feet from Wired's main office. Not that line of sight has much to do with hops to servers, but the Wired.com pages take about 10 seconds to load on a T-1, primarily due to non-value added Lycos code. With faster page loads, they could have have probably could have doubled pageviews and consequently revenue and gotten a higher valuation.
In the end, it really doesn't matter because the site has devolved into a few blogs, reprints of Wired print, and reprints of top-10-sexiest-car articles from Forbes Online. - hoglund, on 10/12/2007, -1/+125 million is not alot of bread for a company that has been around as long as Wired. Sounds like a shaft-job to me. Some poor employee is kicking the water cooler.
- Balcora, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1whats with the Indian born part, why is that Evan relevant?
- ericd543, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Is somebody mixing up billions with millions? It doesn't make sense otherwise.
from the article...
Net ad revenues reached a new record of $3.9 billion for the first quarter of 2006, the Interactive Advertising Bureau reported in May, up 38 percent over the same period last year, and up 6 percent over the 2005 fourth quarter total of $3.6 billion. According to TNS Media Intelligence, internet display advertising grew faster than for any other medium in the first quarter of the year, rising 19.4 percent to $2.31 billion -- though its report did not account for paid search listings, a category that has fueled meteoric growth at web darling Google. Total advertising expenditures for the same period grew just 5.2 percent, the research firm said, reaching $34.9 billion. - aexny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ugh... glad they're getting away from Lycos, but frankly, I'm less than thrilled with what Condé Nast has done with the print version. The paper, size, colors (flourescent, metallic highlights), and layout were all very unique and made Wired a "premium" magazine. Nowadays, it's looking more and more generic each month. Maybe this is a reflection of the subscription price ($10/yr), but I'd rather go back to paying $40/yr to get the old version back again.
Unfortunately, their billing department is also quite messed up. Once every two years or so I get a notice that I haven't paid for the sub (I have...). Instead of chasing them down this year, I decided to ignore the notice. And can you believe they actually sent it to a collections agency? For a $10 subscription! - 4tygames, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7Finally! Wired.com is not owned by Lycos! Great news people! Lycos sucks!
- Bulldog65, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Errr..such a critical pessmistic mindset here saying that Wired News is going nowhere (after a major purchase by a great media company?)..No doubt Lycos blew it with Wired news with lack of resources and cheap tech decisions. But in a world of constant change, the name Wired holds value as it heartily maintained its audience size - in light of their challenges, to make it this far 8 years later.
Devloved into blog? Don't ya think Conde Nast bought Wired.com to rejuvenate it with new editorial and tech resources. CN has great patience and sophistication with consumer marketing..but no, Wired.com will just vanish now.. pick your head up and smile Its only going to get better with Chris Anderson's guidance...or do the posters here have Nostradamus visions of failure. - talcyone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0its unfortunate that no layoffs are planned, as the first thing i was going to propose was to fire that commie bastard spluttering his factless opinionated drivel all over the site every week or so, which has no relation to anything interesting or tech watsoever.
There is still good things on the site, suche as Lore Sojberg and the odd interesting article but lately it seems far from what it used to be a while back when i'd visit the site each morning hoping for something new to enlighten my day.
The upside of that of course being, i find myself here more often. - psycloned, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I wouln't go that far but if they can cut down on the advertisement articles and the kinky-tech stuff, that would be an improvement. Remember when wired featured interesting cutting edge stuff. How many recall reading the original store "Super toys last all summer long" or something like that, that would latter turn in the last movie Kubric ever made, and didn't even finnish. God, they raped that movie.
- dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Edit: nevermind
- MrDiaz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3I wonder how much digg could cost then. Digg's traffic is 3 times higher than wired, so...
- sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2dont mod this parent down. this is a good question.
- 4tygames, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Finally! Wired.com is not owned by Lycos! Great news people! Lycos sucks! After having them install so much spyware and adware, I have always been hesitant going on their website.
- DonPMitchell, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0One stop shopping for sensationalized inaccurate news about modern technology.
And for those who are not dummies, there is http://www.theregister.co.uk/ - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Kanye West bought Wired News?
- goldcityguy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Cool, now we'll see Kate Moss wired in Wired
I've had a subscription for Conde Nast Traveler...nice magazine
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