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Twitter’s Purchase of Summify Gives Insight to New Products
So, as we now learn that they’ve purchased Summify, our speculations of niche and topic specific news and events handling, seems to be coming to fruition, right before our eyes.
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ad-ition Blog Top 10 for 2010
Well it’s come to that time of year where we recap our top posts from 2010. These posts were selected based on the subjects staying power in our media and it’s ability to make long lasting changes to the way we interact with the world wide web. So, let’s begin.
Considering a Shift from AP… CNN Could be an Option.
The Associated Press has been loudly talked about in our blog, primarily due to their noise around aggregators and search engines leveraging their content, which in most cases gave the credit back to them, and because of their trepidation to working with their newspaper clients on their fee increases
Monetizable Change for Newspaper Publishers – agility required for more than just sales teams
Logic tells that it will be next to impossible to make more on the same legacy products and systems. Therefor, there is an increasing need to introduce monetizable change. Monetizable change that allows sales professionals at newspaper publishing units to sell solutions, products and a vision that sets the organization up for the long haul and not just the here and now.
Patch.org: Does it have what it takes to compete in the online news space?
I haven’t yet had a chance to weigh in on the Patch.org initiative backed by AOL, but I will tonight, inspired by a glowing post by Fast Company. Although my prose will not be as long as usual, it will be clear and concise. This Patch.org thing… umm… not so much.
Fwix – local aggregated news done right!
There has been a lot of talk on what the ideal news Web site should look like. Is it the New York Times? Is it a personalized site that allows users to select their news categories of interest? Even after all of the debate, the exact recipe for success in online aggregated news usership has yet to be morph itself. But regardless of what that winning recipe may be, a group called Fwix has what we feel is the best display yet.
Social Networking Impact on Recruitment
Social media and networking on its own is an interesting topic and can be debated for any extended length of time, but where social media gets pointed is when you apply it on a vertical by vertical basis (generalist classifieds, automotive, real estate, and employment). Specifically today, we’re particularly interested in recruitment and the ever-growing social media impact in the employment vertical.
Microsoft to Pay Publishers for their News Content
So, it is no surprise that Microsoft has chosen now to capitalize on the “Google is stealing” mantra and offer to pay publishers for the right to use/index their content.
More Papers to Pull Out of AP Arrangement
We hear now that there is another group of regional papers, in Ohio, who are joining forces to share content and kick the Associated Press out of the party. THANK GOODNESS, newspaper publishers are seeing the light. We’ve suggested that newspapers do this a long time ago. The Associated Press, in my mind, is just … Continue Reading
AP’s Shortsightedness Strikes Again
The most recently announced Associated Press move to take on Web sites that use their articles, through one of their affiliated newspapers, without permission is such an awful sign of desperation. Why is it that when the “content” question is raised, traditional media heads get protectionist and on the defensive? I personally see this as … Continue Reading
