Mike Orren: "Earthlink joins
the hordes trying to do local via aggregation, in this case using
Topix and Google."
He also notes that "any successful local play has to be a hybrid of original content and
aggregation." (which the Earthlink product is not)
Mike’s right. The aggregation can help jumpstart the community with consumer generated content then carrying the ball forward.
A new news aggregator is launching Inform.com, and it does so with a wet kiss from the New York Times’ Bob Tedeschi today. It has a pretty slick layout, though as others have pointed out, it doesn’t appear to add that much to the current marketplace. It’s basically just like Google News only with a…
Curt Monash writes: “Perhaps the coolest of the applications Information Builders cited for me is by the NYC Department of Health. This site provides a small amount of restaurant health information to tens of thousands of users per day. As a former long-time Manhattanite, I can confirm that there’s a great need for this application. IBI…
MediaPost Publications – IT.com Bows White Paper Search Engine – 10/11/2005 (tags: VerticalSearch Research)
My Internet radio show, Disruptive Dialogue, is coming back. It has been on hiatus since the last episode was recorded and released on July 4. I had put it on the shelf because of time constraints and because, although I was getting positive feedback on it, I didn’t feel it had really found the right…
Stuff worth checking out: "Chris Heuer is the project lead: Signups for the new media press release (really!)" (Tom Foremski) – more on the effort to update the press release for the new media age. Something worth following. "Blogs, Politics and Public Relations" (Beltway Blogroll) – campaigns in the new media age "GOP Superiority in…
As long as we’re talking about USB products, to me the biggest news of the day at DEMOfall is something that I’m not sure how much I can talk about. I had the opportunity to talk at length with an entrepreneur who has developed a product he claims would offer a once-and-for-all fix for viruses…