Is Content Still King?

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Jeff Clavier reports on a company he holds an investment in: A few days ago, Truveo went quietly out of stealth. It did not get noticed immediately because of two major news “sandwiching” its release: Skype/eBay and Google BlogSearch. However the buzz has been growing since then, and the initial feedback is pretty positive. Yes,…

I admit I never even think about AOL as a player in online news search.  But I guess I should.  MarketingVox reports: AOL News has sprinted into a leading position in online news search, joining Yahoo News, Google News and Topix.net, writes SearchEngineWatch, citing July Nielsen/NetRatings data, according to which AOL News has a unique…

Florida Trend carries a lengthy profile of Jimmy Wales, the man behind perhaps the most successful consumer generated media site, Wikipedia. he website is among the 100 mostvisited on the internet, according to the web-traffic analysis firm Alexa. The firm reports that Wikipedia is the 58th-mostvisited site globally, compared to a 69th-place ranking for About.com,…

Over in the UK, text messaging is taking on new importance as a way to communicate with the parents of school children.  From LeedsToday.net: FOR 27,000 parents, a reminder of an upcoming teacher training day, or a message that a school trip is returning late, could soon arrive instantly by text message thanks to Leeds-based…

Google’s IM client (Google Talk) has gotten all the attention today, but it strikes me that the bigger announcement is the way they will start verifying Gmail accounts – through SMS messages to users’ cell phones.  The rationale is that you can fake other ways of verifying a real person is creating an account, but…