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New York Times Anoints Ebooks With Own Bestseller List

3:40AM November 12, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Starting early next year, the venerable New York Times is going to include ebooks in its weekly literary sales ratings. Taking their place alongside paperbacks and hardcovers, ebooks will be ranked based on a system that it took the Grey Lady two years to perfect: More »


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Here’s Who Really Rules The Twitterverse

1:00AM September 10, 2010 | Brian Barrett

All apologies to Lady Gaga, but it turns out that your quantity of Twitter followers isn’t nearly as important as their quality. At least not for news-media feeds, according to this new ranking of the 100 most influential media Twits. More »


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Here Are The 1000 Most Popular Websites In The World

8:25AM May 28, 2010 | Jason Chen

Google just released a list of the top 1000 websites in the world, something they’re uniquely suited to rank, since most traffic funnels through them first. Google left themselves off (they’d be #1), so Facebook and Yahoo are close together at 1 and 2. To save you time, Gizmodo US is at 540, edging out Pandora, Intel, that site you use to do currency conversion and the California government. Suck on that Costco and the web standards website. [Top1000 via Erin's Twitter]


Acer Leapfrogs Dell To #2 Globally, But Dell And HP Still Rule The US

12:59AM October 16, 2009 | Danny Allen

Acer rightly cops a lot of stick about build quality, but as predicted, they’ve passed Dell to second spot in worldwide sales. Separate research from Gartner and IDC also ranks Acer third in the US, ahead of Apple in fourth place. More »


HP Ranked #1 Green Company (What!?)

4:40PM October 15, 2009 | Don Nguyen

Newsweek’s latest Green Rankings gave Hewlett Packard the top position, establishing the firm as the greenest Fortune 500 company this year — a far cry from Greenpeace’s #14 ranking. So what gives? More »