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SEO Quotient acquires WebStatsHQ
WASHINGTON, DC – November 5, 2010, Blake Newman and SEO Quotient is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of WebStatsHQ, a web traffic statistical analysis program similar to that of Alexa.com and SmartViper (by Markosweb). SEO Quotient, a product of … Read more
SEO Quotient buys BLVD status
WASHINGTON, DC – On its blog, SEO Quotient™ announced today that it acquired BLVDstatus.com along with the real-time web analytics code that tracks live web stats, keyword rankings reports, custom alerts and a white label solution for SEO professionals.
Foursquare Dennis Crowley Internet Millionaire
In a recent post covering Internet Millionaires, I listed over a dozen dot com entrepreneurs who cashed out – in the millions, sometimes tens of millions and, in a few cases, hundreds of millions – over a period of less … Read more
Internet millionaires & billionaires
With a billion people on this planet connected to the Internet and the barriers to entry relatively low, the Internet has created unprecedented opportunities for people to create unfathomable wealth. What is interesting and remarkable about many of these particular … Read more
Internet entrepreneur sells website for $22 million
Derek Sivers sells CD Baby for $22M The cat’s name is Derek Sivers and back in 1998, he created the website, CD Baby, as a personal need to help fulfill his personal passion (making music) and selling that music online … Read more
Recipe for Success: Facebook, Google, Twitter
Lessons from Silicon Valley If you look at the Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies, a large proportion of them are Internet- or Information Technology-based companies. Never in history have so many people become so extraordinarily wealthy from a single industry. The IT … Read more
Voice of America News – History of the Internet
WASHINGTON, DC – Todd Grosshans, of Voice of America News, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first test of the Internet by producing video interviews with Blake Newman (Internet historian and founder of inQbation™), Lee Rainie (Pew Research Center – Pew … Read more
Happy 40th Anniversary – Internet is 40 years old
Although the launch of Russian satellite Sputnik was the inciting incident (1957) that set the wheels of Internet history in motion, it wasn’t until 1969 that the first nodes or web sites were installed on servers at UCLA, Stanford, UC … Read more
History of the Web – WordPress
Matthew Mullenweg, creator of WordPress Along with Google and Facebook and Twitter, I have to say that WordPress, developed by Matthew Mullenweg, must go down in Internet history as one of the most significant events and turning points in the … Read more
History of the Internet: Twitter
When Jack Dorsey sat down for two weeks in March 2006 to create the prototype for Twitter, do you think he had any idea that Twitter would change the course of history? Think about how quickly Twitter has changed the … Read more
My History of the Internet
In the movies, during the first Act, there is often an inciting incident that sets the rest of the screenplay into motion. It impacts the world in such a way that the course of history is changed forever. If our … Read more
Google buys this, eBay buys that…
Google Earth – Google buys ImageAmerica July 22, 2007 – Google buys ImageAmerica Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1billion April 14, 2007 – Google acquires online advertising company, DoubleClick, for $3.1 billion. HP buys LogoWorks April 24, 2007 – Palo Alto, … Read more


