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CNET News.com Turns 7

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the late-night-filler-blah-blah dept.

dmehus writes "Just as Google celebrated its 5th birthday last week, which was covered by Slashdot, I thought it would be equally appropriate to point out that tech news darling CNET News.com celebrated its 7th birthday this past week. To mark that occasion, its Editor-in-Chief Jai Singh wrote an article, in which he reflects on their founding slogan of 'Tech News First' and their commitment to that going forward. He also announces a brand new redesign that was unveiled yesterday. To that I'd add, here's to another seven more! Thoughts or opinions, anyone?"

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  1. Congrats! by stev3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've learned to take CNets news with a grain of salt, since many times they just seem to editorialize stories and add in useless comments etc.

    To be in business 7 years is a great accomplishment though, and my congratulations go out to them.

    1. Re:Congrats! by Rolman · · Score: 5, Funny

      I've learned to take CNets news with a grain of salt, since many times they just seem to editorialize stories and add in useless comments etc.

      Sorry, but I don't see how is this different from /.

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    2. Re:Congrats! by mikis · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I tought it was vice versa: CNET aquired ZD. See CNET buys rival Ziff-Davis for $1.6 billion

  2. Domain name.. by Aliencow · · Score: 5, Funny

    They have com.com as a domain too... Reminds me of how I always wanted to buy dotcomat.com ..so my email address could be
    dotcom@dotcomat.com..

  3. Yay for tableless design. by reaper20 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow, CSS, XHTML, and and lots of div tags. Doesn't validate, but they're better off than they used to be, at least they made an attempt I guess.

    To bad they ruin it with static width pages. You'd think they'd know this after 7 years.

  4. These guys aren't so bad! by DeathPenguin · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the spirit of promoting the Slashdot effect, I decided to visit cnet.com after having dismissed their site as rubbish. Well, as it turns out, I found an interesting article where an EFF attorny suggests that universities obfuscate student IP addresses by shuffling them to fend off the the RIAA. Any site that posts that sort of content is okay by me! So to you, cnet.com, may you grow in our dismal economy!

  5. Can't remember what the old design was like? by a.koepke · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want to compare the new site design to the old one check out the archived copy provided by Archive.org Wayback Machine.

    Or why not check out some of the previous designs... Nov 17, 1999 or why not go right back to Dec 23, 1996.

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  6. Re:Early Bias by Enoch+Root · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found CNET News.com to be rather biased towards Microsoft early on by running stories favorable towards the company. (often ignoring news critical of Microsoft)

    Wow... That makes them the anti-Slashdot! If packets from Slashdot and CNet ever collide, the Internet will blow up in a huge blast of photons!