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The State of Citizen Journalism: Part 1, Newsvine

Written by Richard MacManus / July 13, 2007 1:24 AM / 17 Comments

In the young but growing world of user-generated news, sites like digg and slashdot dominate in the tech sphere. In the political arena, it is mostly editorial-driven sites that do Continue reading »

Digg Needs Editors

Written by Richard MacManus / July 2, 2007 5:12 PM / 26 Comments

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One of my pet peeves currently is when people badly submit an article to digg. It is bad for both digg readers (who may never get to see the article Continue reading »

New CNN.com Goes Live - Google and Yahoo Both Search Providers

Written by Richard MacManus / June 30, 2007 6:35 PM / 11 Comments

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As we reported yesterday, CNN is this weekend re-launching its website as an enhanced multimedia site - packed with web 2.0 features such as recommendations and user generated content. The Continue reading »

CNN.com To Launch Web 2.0 Re-design This Weekend

Written by Richard MacManus / June 29, 2007 3:44 PM / 13 Comments

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Over the past year or so we've seen many mainstream publications 'web 2.0-ize' their web presence. BBC has been a leading force, while in March USA Today announced a re-design. Continue reading »

Three More Microsoft WPF News Readers Launched: Forbes, Seattle PI, Daily Mail

Written by Richard MacManus / February 22, 2007 7:04 PM / 6 Comments

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Following on from the New York Times Reader last year, made with Microsoft's rich presentation technology WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), three more big media companies have released Web/desktop News Readers Continue reading »

Findory Fades Away

Written by Richard MacManus / January 14, 2007 2:19 PM / 2 Comments

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Greg Linden just posted on his blog that Findory, the personalized news service he created and has been running for the past 3 years, is to slowly "fade away". In Continue reading »

Avantoure: A Magazine for the Web Age

Written by Richard MacManus / December 4, 2006 5:07 PM / 7 Comments

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Recently I came across a new magazine that is delivered via the Web - and utilizes a lot of Web native functionality in the process. It's called Avantoure and the Continue reading »

Demand Media aims to Capitalize on Web Content

Written by Richard MacManus / November 16, 2006 8:21 PM / 6 Comments

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Bambi Francisco from MarketWatch has an interesting interview with Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media. Rosenblatt was chairman of MySpace at the time it was sold to News Corp and Continue reading »

About.com: The King of SEO

Written by Richard MacManus / November 16, 2006 3:02 AM / 10 Comments

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While at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I caught up with About.com CEO Scott Meyer. About.com is the long-standing network of how-to websites, purchased in March 2005 by the Continue reading »

Wired Acquires Reddit (instead of just white labeling it)

Written by Richard MacManus / October 31, 2006 12:03 PM / 2 Comments

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In other acquisition news today, Techcrunch reported that Cond√© Nast, owner of Wired and other magazines/websites, has acquired Boston-based Reddit. I pinged Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian about this and he Continue reading »

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