A timely week for the Huffington Post to launch mobile

In all the election excitement, this nearly got missed but the Huffington Post went mobile this week.

Media Bistro originally reported:

“HuffPost Mobile’s election coverage includes top news stories, election results and featured blog posts. Other non-election content includes pieces from HuffPost’s various sections like green, living, entertainment, media and style.”

It’s powered by Crisp Wireless and the two partners will now be looking to gain advertising revenue through the service, Media Bistro reports.

Tags: advertising revenue, Crisp Wireless, Crisp Wireless Inc, Huffington Post, huffpost, media bistro, Mobile

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ReutersBlogs: Huffington Post tops traffic for independent political blogs

ComScore reports that HuffingtonPost.com had 4.5 million visitors in September, above the site’s tally of 792,000 in the same month last year. It was followed by Politico.com with 2.4 million visitors and DrudgeReport.com with 2.1 million. Full story...

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Editor&Publisher: Top 30 news sites for September 2008

Nielsen Online's top 30 current event and global news destinations list, with percentage changes comparing September 2008 with September 2007. The Huffington Post continues to pull off big increases in unique users - visitors to the site soared 457 per cent to 7.4 million in September. Full story...

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Huffington Post’s Rachel Sklar on online video

Beet.tv is carrying this interview with Rachel Sklar, editor of Huffington Post’s Eat the Press column, following a report by Gawker that she is set to leave the site to concentrate on writing a book.

In the clip below Sklar discusses the site’s approach to video and says it’s building ‘hub’ pages for books, sports and world news events.

Tags: Huffington Post, Rachel Sklar, Video

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Huffington Post local launches Chicago site

A beta version of the Huffington Post’s new site for Chicago has gone live.

The site is the first of a potential dozen local Huffington Post sites set for launch and will aggregate news for Chicago from local sources and posts from local bloggers.

Local information, such as crime stats, events listings and nightclub opening hours, will also feature in a ‘rotating at-a-glance’ way, said editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington in an introduction to the new site.

“Transferring The Huffington Post’s blend of news, opinion, and community - delivered with our familiar look and attitude - to a local level, HuffPost Chicago is part local news source, part resource guide, and part virtual soap box,” said Huffington.

The site will be edited by Ben Goldberger, a former reporter with the Chicago Sun-Times.

Tags: Arianna Huffington, Ben Goldberger, Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times, Huffington Post, Local, USA

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Poynter.org: The secrets of the Huffington Post’s success

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Huffington Post introduces ‘Big News Pages’

The Huffington Post has created its own version of the BBC’s topic pages - HuffPost Big News Pages.

The pages will aggregate a mixture of HuffPost content alongside Digg and del.icio.us links, posts from other bloggers and relevant Twitter conversations.

There are 75 so far, but more will be added to meet reader demand, the site says.

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