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MySpace is becoming more involved in the political process and today announced plans to hold their own Presidential primary. The social networking…
Topix went beyond aggregation today by launching the ability for local news readers to post or comment upon stories. CEO Rich Skrenta describes the business model transformation where they took more risk to turn SEO attention into participation -- sharing control to create value.
As we talked about last week, Doubleclick is for sale and Microsoft was thought to be the leader in the clubhouse to buy the advertising company.
Topix, the local news aggregator that is owned by several big U.S. newspaper chains (Gannett, The Tribune and McClatchy), is doing what amounts to a relaunch of the site and adding “citizen journalism” or social media to the mix, as well as moving to a dot-com domain (it used to be dot-net). Founder and CEO Rich Skrenta — who describes on his personal blog how…
The news aggregating site at Topix.net has a new complementary domain at Topix.com, and a renewed focus on the local audience that CEO Rich Skrenta thinks can be a difference maker for the site. Oh, and just call them Topix.
Just when you thought the Internet was full…Today, Comedy Central opened up an online joke school for the humor impaired. Marking yet another stop along the way to TV/Internet content integration, while taking advantage of the broadband boom and the online community meme, the all-comedy cable network's "Crash Course In Comedy" is an interactive online comedy school "for wannabe standup comedians."
