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“The news property is built on Newroo technology, a company they acquired in early 2006 for a rumored $7 million… Users can vote on each item of news with a ranking of 1-5.”
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Very Beta: one or two votes for most of the top items, and no way of submitting stories yet. Will be interesting to see how this evolves over the next couple of months as they improve the product and start promoting it to Myspace users.
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“1. Why no comments? 2. Needs widgets, or other integration with profiles. 3. Search? 4. Spam… 5. The site is dead, and will remain dead until they link to it from elsewhere on MySpace.”
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Wired News’s Combiler isn’t impressed yet either: “Like many people, I anticipated MySpace News making a big splash upon release… It seems as though MySpace should have spent another six weeks in development.”
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Upcoming relaunches, switches to Yahoo’s login system, and gets itself a better locations system.
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Stick-it-to-the-man style post from Mashable on Upcoming’s relaunch and integration into Yahoo’s network.
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On the introduction of time per visit metrics, touted as a replacement for page views: visit duration is inflated by distractions from the site; ignores tabbed browing; and is only indirectly linked to engagement.
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“The king of free online classified advertising insists that Craigslist is not a threat to the newspaper industry. ‘It’s just a simple platform where people help each other out,’ he says. ‘In a way, anyone can do what we do’.”
links for 2007-04-22
22 April 2007 · Leave a Comment
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Hello. I'm David Black. I work as Group Director of Digital Publishing at Trinity Mirror plc. This personal blog includes links on the trends transforming newspaper and classified businesses online. 
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