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A perfect example

Published by Ronny on March 26th, 2010 in General. 4 comments Tagged with , , , ,

‘This is a perfect example of go home and do it again… You know what I mean?‘
Not too long ago, I wrote about how Smashing Magazine and their business was kind of “destroying” the internet. Today I ran into the perfect example of what disgusts me the most. Take a look at this:

What you see here is a page of TheNextWeb magazine. And let me start by stating the following: I love that site. The content is relevant, relaxing and not too serious all the time. So I do like the philosophy of the site. But would you mind taking a look at that screenshot? The red square shows the actual content. Everything else can only be described as

  1. Ads. Really. Advertisements. Hey… It’s okay. They gotta make money somehow, right?
  2. Their own social profiles: They mention every single one of them at least 3 times on that page. I think they might have forgotten they put it there twice before…
  3. Social sharing links: They want you to push their content as far into the web as possible, using any social service they can get their hands on.
  4. Egotripping data: After you shared this article with every living soul on the planet, they tell you what you have done. A thousand diggs! A million retweets! And a billion RSS readers!!! This actually makes me wonder: Does anyone actually care?

Because that overall look of the page annoyed me so much, I made an effort and measured the whole thing up. This is what I came up with. Read the rest of this entry »