There are some interesting takeaways from this column written by Topix CEO Chris Tolles. (Topix is a local news aggregator and community that’s focused on regions, cities and neighborhoods.) First, Tolles does some rough math: There are about 1,400 daily newspapers and 7,000 television and radio stations in the U.S., and back-of-the-envelope math shows that they each produce about three to six stories per day, or about 22,000 local stories for the entire U.S. If ...

Yahoo API’lerini kullanarak kendi arama motorunuzu yaratabildiğiniz BOSS‘tan sonra Google da Google Custom Search Engine ile hizmetini genişletmeye başladı. Arama motorları kendilerini özellikle Friendfeed‘in arama teknolojisinden sonra çeşitlendirmek ve kullanım alanlarını bir şekilde bu servislerle birleştirmek için ek mesai harcıyorlar. Friendfeed içi yapılan arama sonuçlarının ne derece önemli olduğunu geçen günlerde Robert Scoble ile bir sohbette Mark Zuckerberg tarafından da dile getirildi. Zuckerberg’in FriendFeed hakkındaki tek yorumu “harika bir arama motoru var” oldu. Bu arada ...

Yeah, you are probably sick of the FriendFeed hype. Sorry about that. But I do look around to see if there’s any other choices out there. Today I found one. 125,000 comments per day. Heck, FriendFeed doesn’t even have that many people on it yet. Here’s an interview with Topix’ CEO, Chris Tolles, having a conversation with me about the online community business. How is he doing it? He covers his advertising, his marketing, and ...

Yeah, you are probably sick of the FriendFeed hype. Sorry about that. But I do look around to see if there’s any other choices out there. Today I found one. 125,000 comments per day. Heck, FriendFeed doesn’t even have that many people on it yet. Here’s an interview with Topix’ CEO, Chris Tolles, having a conversation with me about the online community business. How is he doing it? He covers his advertising, his marketing, and ...