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You Know Print Is Dead When….

February 27, 2009

You know print is dead when the CEO of your publishing company wants to put out an e-Reader to cannibalize business. Such is the case with Hearst Publishing’s CEO due to plummeting ad revenue for newspapers and magazines, and rising costs for paper and delivery. Hearst publishes magazines such as Cosmopolitan & Esquire as well [...]

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The Real Reason Kevin And Jay Cashed In Last Round

December 20, 2008

Somehow Business Week got their hands on Digg’s financials and reports that the company had 2007 revenues of $4.8 million and losses of $2.8 million. In its first three quarters of 2008, Digg had revenues of $6.4 million and losses of $4 million. Trend those specs and you’ve got 2008 revenue of $8.5 million, [...]

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TechMeme Getting Manual Intervention. Still Won’t Add Us In

December 3, 2008

TechMeme is an automated news site that aggregates and ranks breaking tech stories based on incoming link quantity and source power, is changing their ways.
Founder, Gabe Rivera today in a blog post said that the system isn’t working anymore, at least not for certain topics that he uses his algorithms for, like Celebrity News (WeSmirch)
To [...]

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Why Digg’s Recommendation Engine is Broken: Social Media Marketing

November 19, 2008

Stan Schroeder at Mashable says that he finds Digg’s recommendation engine more or less useless. I have to agree.
Digg spent a lot of time hyping the recommendation feature back when they released the beta of the service in June.
The system attempts to match you up with other Diggers who have similar interests based on the [...]

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Barry Diller Giving Up On BlogLines

October 18, 2008

Bloglines for the past 6 months hasn’t been updating feeds from thousands of blogs, and about 1/3 of every feed is having some problem. The problems have never been remedied despite countless requests. 
Founder, Mark Fletcher is upset with the situation which he has no control over; he sold the company to Ask.com in 2005, a [...]

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