Media

Competing in the RSS Feed Monetization Business

Business 2.0 ran an interesting article entitled, “Redefining the RSS feed” regarding FeedBurner. The article is based largely on an interview with the company’s CEO, Dick Costolo, and it explores the company’s business model, and discusses how it integrates advertisements into publishers’ feeds and reports back on the size and scope of their audience....

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Attack of the Digg Clones

In the last few weeks, we’ve seen the news aggregation site Digg expand its’ focus beyond Technology news in an effort to reach more eyeballs. We’ve also seen Netscape launch a Digg competitor that is also aimed at a wide audience, covering just about every topic you can think of....

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Eye on Customer Service

Jackie Huba of the Church of the Customer blog shares how stories spread, with the help of YouTube and audio. As you may have heard, an AOL customer tried to cancel his account and dealt with a CSR who pretty much wouldn’t fulfill his request. The customer, Vincent Ferrari, who is also a blogger,...

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The Funny (Web) Pages

What is a web comic? Its like a regular comic, except it’s hosted online and generally does not follow a strict release schedule. They also differ in that they tend to be larger than regular comics taking up 3, 6, or 9 comic panels. The art is usually hand drawn and scanned,...

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Netscape Enters News Aggregator Space


Netscape has just entered the news aggregator business, launching the beta version of a news site that mimics the model of sites like Digg and Newsvine. These sites rely on users to vote on the stories they like and use this data to create the equivalent of a newspaper homepage,...

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