I was never very impressed by Mashable. Far too much linkbait.
Far too many "100 ways to" or "Be sure not to miss" and then their "tips" being rehashing of other people's work or thigns I could've thought of myself too, especially with a little Google work.
Seems to work to sell for $200M :-)
No. Rather seems to be a _part_ of work that got them to sell for $200MM. Mashable has executives with very deep connections. I say this was more important.
Mashable is essentially a low-quality content farm. Certainly no place for a self-respecting geek to get tech news.
Mashable represents what media has become; popularist, global and free. This is largely driven by us believe it or not, with help from the Internet off course.
I pretty much stopped reading Mashable when I discovered HN. I probably haven't been on Mashable at all in the last 6 months, as the last I did there was absolutely nothing of value that I hadn't already seen elsewhere.
I've moved away from sourcing news through multiple news apps like mashable to consuming all my tech news via a news aggregation app called pulse.
Without the "sort of". Mashable has deteriorated noticeably the past few months. It was a pretty interesting blog about social networks. Now it's a pageview machine. The best example of this happened when Bin Laden was killed [1].
I deleted it from my Google Reader months ago, there were a lot of articles daily and few of them were somewhat interesting.
I feel like Business Insider is doing the same crap. Top 10 XYZ regurgitated 10 ways and split testing headlines to get more pageviews. No quality whatsoever.