Akamai offers this fun little tool that shows volume of traffic to news sites around the world. It’s more fun than useful, but Akamai could add value to it by trying to pinpoint the news stories that are causing upward fluctuations. For example, at 6:45 PM ET tonight, it showed Australian news traffic was 200% above normal – why?
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Scoble points to some new, niche versions of Memeorandum that have been created. Specifically, he spoke with Gabe Rivera, creator of Memeorandum, who told him about tech.Memeorandum and the latest version of the original which is focused on current events and politics. It’s all computer driven to come up with stories — it uses links…
In one of those odd twists of automated ad placement, I saw an ad for Dell product coupons (from a third party site, not Dell itself) in the RSS feed for Jeff Jarvis’ blog tonight. Those familiar with his "Dell Hell" experience will understand the overwhelming irony.
P&G debuts measurement tool calculating PR’s value – PRWeek US (tags: PRmeasurement)
Topix.net “announced the availability of its NewsRank(TM) categorization technology across the 177 newspaper and television station Web sites of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Knight Ridder, Inc. (NYSE: KRI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB). Articles on Topix.net powered sites provide links to related, categorized content, discovered through their NewsRank(TM) technology.”
Matthew Hurst notes that David Sifry of Technorati appears to be making the rounds of major PR firms, likely to let them know about his company’s professional blog monitoring product (reportedly soon to be released). He also observes: There is no doubt that blogs are an important part of the equation, but the world of…
PRSA’s New York chapter is putting on what should be an interesting event on September 29 called "NY MegaTech Day." It’s essentially a daylong seminar on blogging and new technologies for online PR. It features prominent bloggers like Steve Rubel and BL Ochman and should provide much food for thought. The agenda is here and…