The Huffington Post mixed aggregated news, celebrity bloggers and huge headlines into the busiest news blog of 2010, with comment sections in the thousands. Its traffic and Facebook-savvy strategy led AOL to buy it for $315 million in early 2011.
- Domain in 2010
- huffingtonpost.com
- Launched
- 9 May 2005
- Founders
- Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, Jonah Peretti, Andrew Breitbart
- Owner in 2010
- HuffPost (private)
- Status today
- Still active
What people used it for
- News aggregation and opinion
- Celebrity and political blogs
- Comment-section arguments
Interface characteristics
- Giant all-caps headlines
- Three-column front page with hundreds of links
- Green logo
Notable features
- Facebook Connect comments
- Aggressive search-engine headlines
What happened later
AOL bought HuffPost in 2011; it later became part of BuzzFeed.
Archived on the Wayback Machine
Archived pages open on web.archive.org (Internet Archive). They are historical captures, not part of this exhibit.
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