The founder and managing executive of Hamptons.com left the company abruptly this week, citing differences with the company’s majority shareholder about the news and lifestyle website’s direction.
Robert Florio’s departure follows the firing of the website’s executive editor, Christine Bellini, who was replaced late last week by the site’s original executive editor, Nicole B. Brewer.
“Basically, my partner and I had very different ideas of what the future of the company should be,” Mr. Florio said on Monday, referring to Joe Kazickas, who is the majority partner and shareholder in Convergent Holdings, which owns Hamptons.com. “It was a multitude of differences about how media operates in this region. You will see a change in direction of the site in the next few weeks, I think. The audience will decide if that’s good... more
Robert Florio’s departure follows the firing of the website’s executive editor, Christine Bellini, who was replaced late last week by the site’s original executive editor, Nicole B. Brewer.
“Basically, my partner and I had very different ideas of what the future of the company should be,” Mr. Florio said on Monday, referring to Joe Kazickas, who is the majority partner and shareholder in Convergent Holdings, which owns Hamptons.com. “It was a multitude of differences about how media operates in this region. You will see a change in direction of the site in the next few weeks, I think. The audience will decide if that’s good... more
Hamptons.com did have some interesting articles, but you had to dig for them.
Doesn't matter who is reporting for them if you can't present the information in a clean and easy-to-read format. Look at the front page of hamptons.com now.. Could they fit anything ELSE on there?
hamptons - 2.42mb 5.42s page load
I think there's a little more to it than gossip... Loading all that annoying flashy-scrolly stuff, aside from being generally annoying makes the page load over twice as long.
Sure, the average Joe would have no idea what is going on, but anybody that develops for the web knows the statistics and long page loads lose pageviews.
I think hamptons is primarily an advertising media first, news second. 27east ...more is the other way around imho.
Again, hamptons did have some good articles imho, but the presentation doesn't work for me.