The , the left-leaning news and opinion site, is an honest-to-goodness new media powerhouse. What began in 2005 as a group blog for conservative-turned-liberal pundit Arianna Huffington's celebrity pals now attracts more than double the traffic gets in any given month. More importantly, Huffington is attracting something no media company these days has: venture capital. (Image Caption: HuffPo-To-Go: The mobile app for HuffingtonPost.com looks a lot like the Web site. But on an iPhone-sized screen, that's not necessarily a good thing.) The app for the iPhone and iPod touch looks and feels a lot like the Web site, with its bold heads and lengthy sub-headlines. But the app suffers from a number of technical glitches that make it an unreliable mobile news companion, falling somewhere between the generally slick (if slow) news...
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