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Written on November 21, 2008 – 2:36 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Wow, this cartoon was made for us! We knew we did something right when we decided to name our company “The Next Web” instead of something boring like “The Web2.0 Blog”.
Found at Geek And Poke.
Thanks for the tip ellemijn!
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Written on November 11, 2008 – 4:38 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Last month we bought TheNextWeb.com in an auction at Sedo.com for only $1000. It took a while to transfer the domain to our hosting provider but it worked out and today we decided to take a deep breath and switch our blog from TheNextWeb.org to TheNextWeb.com.
The .org version of our domain will always work too but now redirects to the .com url. No need to update any old links! We will also start using the .com version for our email addresses but the old ones will also keep working.
So far it looks like everything still works but we are keeping an eye on it and if you see something that doesn’t seem to work as expected please do let us know. As far as I know there shouldn’t be any effect when it comes to Search Engine Optimization but I can imagine that readers are more inclined to return to a blog that has a .com domain name. Right now almost 30% of all our traffic comes from Google so we are keeping on eye on that too!
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Written on October 27, 2008 – 11:05 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Robin Wauters recently moved from being a blogger for TheNextWeb.org to blogging for Techcrunch.com. Yesterday he published a post about MySpace leaving The Netherlands. This is the first comment on that post:
I know, it is JUST one comment but I showed it to Ernst-Jan and said “That is why TheNextWeb.org matters”. Techcrunch.com has 1 million+ RSS subscribers and a large part of those readers have no interest in the rest of the world.
We are here to serve those that ARE interested.
Are YOU interested in the rest of the world?
Written on July 30, 2008 – 12:28 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
On May 27, 2008 I reported here that we had received 32,000 unique visitors in the last 30 days. Since then we have written another 266 posts which brings our total to 824. Those posts are attracting more visitors every day. In the last 30 days we attracted 95,000 unique visitors!
Today we also passed another milestone: 4000 feed subscribers!
Check out that graph. How many subscribers will we have in 12 months? If you haven’t subscribed yet you can do that now by clicking here.
The most popular search terms:
1: nasza klasa
2: nico nico douga
3: the next web
4: leah culver
5: nasza-klasa
6: photofree
7: snagfilm
Our top 3 most viewed posts. Not sure if that is the same as ‘popular’ but it is the only thing I can find easily:
1: Reality in Sweden: download a HD DVD in two seconds
2: 3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia
3: Nasza-klasa: Polish example of the copy-cat approach
We are getting a lot of views from StumbleUpOn and news.ycombinator.com lately.
I would have loved to include more detailed graphs about our stats but I guess this one just sums it all up better than any other graph I can think of:
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