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Porn.com sold for $9m

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MXN Limited is the new owner of premium domain porn.com, according to the DomainTools blog (via Techmeme). They claim that this is the second largest adult domain transaction, behind sex.com of course which sold for $14m.

The new owner is going to take their time to consider what long-term project plans they will take with Porn.com. They said, “It does not need to transform overnight. In the meantime, we will keep it parked with PremiumTraffic.com, a leading domain name monetization company”.

That’s probably a good idea. I wish I had $9m to put on something and then just let it linger while I figured out what to do with it…

Originally posted on May 16, 2007 @ 6:22 am

Blogosphere darling gets more juice

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MacBookApple, a company on a constant honeymoon with the blogosphere it seems, updated their MacBook consumer line today. Nothing fancy really, just more juice when it comes to the Intel Core 2 Duo processors, a bigger hard drive and shipping with 1 GB RAM from the start.

“The MacBook is a huge hit with customers, and is one of the reasons that Mac sales are growing three times faster than PC sales,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The new MacBook is faster, has even more memory and storage, and is an ideal notebook for customers’ growing library of digital music, photos and movies.”

In other words, the rumors where true and I’m totally biased about it. I would probably buy a smaller MacBook Pro, 15.4″ screen doesn’t rock my boat so I went with the standard one, but this won’t get me to upgrade. It also feels like a poor boost to the standard MacBook given the fact that the Pro range is rumored to be getting the Santa Rosa chipsets and better screens in the near future.

Anyway, that’s it. Have a look in your local Apple Store via apple.com if you’re interested in buying one, or just check out the press release. There’s a Techmeme discussion as well, but that probably doesn’t come as a great surprise, right?

Originally posted on May 15, 2007 @ 11:11 am

WordPress 2.2 is out, no tagging support

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WordpressWordPress 2.2 is out, the first release in this new faster release schedule that the developers have adapted. It has lost its tagging feature since they wanted to make it better, it’s slated for 2.3 which is due in September.

There’s a lot of fixes in the 2.2 release, 244 closed tickets it appears, and a few new features. Widgets is an integrated part of WordPress now, something I’m not too fond of but fine, I won’t bitch about it. Mac users will be happy to know that the WYSIWYG editor should work in the next version of Safari. Oh joy, right?

Anyway, check out the launch post and grab it if you will. I haven’t updated any of my blogs yet so I don’t know if you should expect trouble, but I haven’t heard anything yet…

By the way, 2.2 is named “Getz” and Matt is treating us with Got That Swing over at his blog. Happy listening.

Originally posted on May 16, 2007 @ 6:46 am

CBS News buys Wallstrip

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WallstripWallstrip, the web show with a pop culture take on the stock market, have been bought by CBS News according to Jossip. The blog claims that the price tag where around $5 million, which should boost the wallets of investors Fred Wilson and Howard Lindzon I’m sure.

This is interesting of course, since it appears that Wallstrip is making no or little money. TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley (former blogger here at 901am) confirms the story and I’ll add my own belief to his: that CBS is looking for an Amanda Congdon 2.0 in Wallstrip host Lindsay Campbell.

Nothing is said about the deal on the Wallstrip site yet, by the way. Also, the price tag will probably render us a whole bunch of web show so beware of impending video garbage…

Update! It seems that Jossip and TechCrunch have gotten Fred Wilson’s involvement a bit wrong. He hasn’t negotiated any sale whatsoever, according to this blog post, and Union Square Ventures isn’t involved either. Fred is merely a curious angel investor as it were. I’m guessing his wallet isn’t going to be that thick after all, at least not from the Wallstrip sale anyway…

Originally posted on May 14, 2007 @ 3:07 am

Heroes goes online to keep viewer interest

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heroes.jpgTV series hit Heroes, the biggest thing to come out of NBC in quite some time it appears, is nearing its season finale. The end, the one that will bring everything together. But there’s a second season coming, of course, and it’s due this Fall.

To keep viewer interest over the Summer, NBC will not only continue to update the online graphic novel but also publish Inside Heroes online. I’m guessing it’ll be behind the scenes andstuff like that, and B&C seems to agree. For the hardcore fans then. It’s due May 21 over at nbc.com.

Originally posted on May 11, 2007 @ 1:32 pm