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May. 6, 2008 at 8:38am by Greg Sterling
Myanmar Cyclone Maps, Paid Search Ads & Other Disaster Resources
This past weekend a cyclone hit Myanmar (formerly Burma), killing at least 15,000 with many more missing. It's a massive tragedy. Now data on the cyclone and its path, from the UN Institute for Training and Research Operational Satellite Applications Programme, are available as a layer in Google Earth. But...
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Apr. 16, 2008 at 9:17am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Launches Live Search News
Microsoft hits back at Google with Live Search News from News.com reports Microsoft has launched Live Search News. Live Search News takes a more linear view of news compared to the Google News or Yahoo News home pages. Live Search News looks more like a Techmeme style news approach, but...
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Feb. 26, 2008 at 1:40am by Danny Sullivan
Yahoo Buzz Launches: Votes, Searches, & Emails Used To Rank News
As expected, Yahoo Buzz has now launched -- a site where "buzz-worthy" news articles are highlighted based on user votes, searching activity, and email sharing. Hot stories on Buzz may also get featured on the Yahoo home page, an added incentive to get publishers considering the program....
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Feb. 20, 2008 at 3:51pm by Vanessa Fox
Newspond Lauches News Aggregation Site That Uses A "Tireless Electronic Brain"
Newspond is a news aggregation site that boasts "No editors. No voting. Just an AI news engine." Presumably, the lack of voting distinguishes it from sites like Digg and the lack of editing from the Mahalo-like and maybe Slashdot? Does this mean it's like Ask's recent news aggregation entry BigNews...
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Feb. 19, 2008 at 9:23am by Greg Sterling
Topix To Power Community For Local NBC Affiliates
Community and local news site Topix struck an agreement to power discussion forums for NBC Universal’s 10 local owned and operated station web sites. Topix already does this for selected newspapers and Gannett TV sites and claims 100 media partners for its local news and/or community features....
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Jan. 24, 2008 at 8:23am by Greg Sterling
Hyper-Local "News" Site EveryBlock Emerges
EveryBlock is a new local "news" site that seeks to answer the question, "What's happening in my neighborhood?" It aggregates data and content from a variety of sources and currently covers three US cities: Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. EveryBlock competes with Outside.in, YourStreet, and Topix to some degree....
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Nov. 2, 2007 at 8:44am by Barry Schwartz
New York Times Adds BlogRunner To Technology Section
The New York Times’ Blogrunner—A Techmeme Killer? from TechCrunch shows that the New York Times has added BlogRunner headlines on the Technology main page. BlogRunner is very similar to Techmeme, where the system aggregates top news, and automatically tracks the discussion from around the web via linkage data. The New...
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Oct. 22, 2007 at 9:26am by Barry Schwartz
Getting On Top Of Techmeme
Robert Scoble has posted about two interesting videos he did about reverse engineering Techmeme. The two videos are Part I and Part II, with the first being about 6 minutes long and the second being about 25 minutes long. Robert explains how he feels Techmeme works and how you can...
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Sep. 19, 2007 at 10:01am by Greg Sterling
Reuters Introduces Video People Search
Google Operating System reports on a new video search engine from Reuters that uses face recognition technology developed by Viewdle to find people in videos. Riya, which became, Like, uses similar "visual search" technology applied to product search. The Reuters engine only yields Reuters video results -- at least for...
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Sep. 12, 2007 at 8:12am by Danny Sullivan
Propeller.com: New Home For The Netscape Social News Site
Last week, it was announced that the social news site Netscape had been transformed into a year ago was going way, with Netscape becoming a more classic news portal and "social Netscape" to be moved elsewhere. Now we know where elsewhere is: Propeller.com (not currently live). Social News Update...
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Sep. 12, 2007 at 6:53am by Greg Sterling
User-Driven News More Diverse Than Mainstream Coverage
In this era of fragmented audiences, with newspaper journalism feeling the pressure of blogs and the Internet more generally, the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) undertook a study comparing mainstream media coverage of news with user-driven news and content sites Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit. The authors of the study...
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Aug. 31, 2007 at 1:08pm by Danny Sullivan
Google News Now Hosting Wire Stories & Promises Better Variety In Results
Today, Google News will begin offering articles from several major wire services and news agencies hosted on its own site, rather than sending readers away from Google. The move is part of licensing agreements that have been stuck over the past year. Google News is also promising better duplicate story...
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Jun. 27, 2007 at 8:42am by Barry Schwartz
Tolles Replaces Skrenta As CEO Of Topix
Chris Tolles announced that he would be taking over the roll of CEO at Topix. Rich Skrenta, the former CEO of Topix, will be a member of the board and an advisor. Why the change? Chris explains that Rich wasn't having "as much fun" as he did in the past....
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May. 31, 2007 at 1:36pm by Greg Jarboe
Revealing The Sources Of Google News
American journalists and news reporters never reveal their sources. Google News follows suit, nowhere providing a list of the more than 4,500 English language news sources it claims to track. However, Henk van Ess, an investigative journalist from the Netherlands, offers a service that reveals the names of 1,256 news...
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May. 24, 2007 at 10:12am by Greg Sterling
Google Hot Trends, Yahoo Buzz Index: Tracking Tools For Traditional Marketing
Search Engine Journal compares Google's recently introduced "Hot Trends" database with the Yahoo Buzz Index. (Barry Schwartz wrote extensively about Hot Trends previously.) These tools, while fun and interesting, are also potentially important as business intelligence and data mining tools and increasingly useful to track the efficacy of offline marketing....
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May. 24, 2007 at 9:48am by Greg Sterling
Inform To Power Site Search, Content Aggregation For Major Publishers
According to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), "Inform Technologies LLC, which is based in New York, said 16 online publications plan to include its new search function. Among them are WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive's Newsweek.com and Conde Nast's Portfolio.com."...
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Apr. 2, 2007 at 12:11am by Greg Sterling
Topix Transforms Into Community Generated Local News Site
This evening Topix is doing something entirely logical and taking a big risk at the same time. The site, which has been a "top 25" news destination, is now effectively flipping its model and going from being a news aggregator with comments and community at the margins to a community...
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Feb. 14, 2007 at 7:27am by Danny Sullivan
Google News: Top Of Mind, Even If Not Top Of Traffic
I've often written about how Google News comes under far more criticism and attention than its apparent usage as a news resource, considering other sites like Yahoo News have more traffic. Is Google News the Tail Wagging the News Search Dog? from Greg Jarboe at Search Engine Watch tries to...
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Jan. 29, 2007 at 3:06pm by Chris Sherman
News Search + Personalization + Social Media = Wikio
Wikio is a relatively new startup that blends articles from major news web sites and blogs with commentary and tags from Wikio users. It also offers powerful search and customization options that go beyond what you find at most other "media harvesting" sites on the web. Google News offers personalization,...
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Jan. 29, 2007 at 8:47am by Greg Sterling
Topix.net And Tribune In Mutual Classifieds Syndication Deal
Back in March, 2006 newspaper publishers The Tribune Co., Gannett and KnightRidder (now McClatchy) acquired 75% of news aggregation and community site Topix.net. But with the exception of a minor placement of a "contextually relevant news" box on content pages of some of those sites, the newspaper owners haven't done...
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Jan. 17, 2007 at 8:32am by Danny Sullivan
Q&A With Gabe Rivera, Creator Of Techmeme
Over the past decade, I've seen a lot of search tools that were supposed to transform my life. Few of them have. But Techmeme was one of those. When it kicked off back in September 2005, I wrote a review, gave it a preliminary thumbs-up and soon found myself...
