A Couple New News Ideas

Jan 13th
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Local pay per click idea? "Topix.net launched into beta today, and was done by the same team that built dmoz.org/newhoo. One of our goals is to aggregate local traffic at the zip code level and be able to drive local web hits to ads." - Rich Skrenta

Topix has over 150,000 news channels which are constantly updated. I think a big flaw with their idea is that currently you have to go to their site to find all the information...or at least they did not make it easy for me to find a data feed. Thus they can not compete with sources like Google News (ad free and not biased by human editors), and they will likely strugle to pull visitors from local news papers due to customer loyalty. Time shall tell...

An Awesome new news aggregator (which is ad free and amazing if you figure out how to use it) is del.icio.us

Published: January 13, 2004

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January 13, 2004 - 9:55pm

We have plans to put out RSS for each of the Topix pages, but haven't implemented it yet.

Note that Topix's news pages are all machine categorized with a big AI engine...there is no human editing involved.

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