Reddit's dream: I'll trade you all of these page views for all of your money

Last week, I wrote about popular user-generated news site Reddit, which, despite being owned by Conde Nast, finds itself having money problems.

To solve them, at least temporarily, it asked for donations. And it got plenty of them -- approximately 6,000. Calling the fundraising campaign a "triumph," a member of Reddit's team also wrote, "It's given everyone involved with reddit a good kick in the pants right when we needed it."

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Posted 19 July 2010 15:47pm by Patricio Robles with 2 comments

Traffic and Audience Measurement - what free tools do you use?

Econsultancy Compete profileI'd be interested to hear what free tools and services people use to gauge levels of traffic and the nature of the audience to any website? 

Obviously this information is useful for competitive intelligence, media planning and buying, search optimisiation, online PR, affiliate marketing etc. 

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Posted 01 May 2009 11:00am by Ashley Friedlein with 11 comments