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Topix Tags AP in Deal

11:11 pm - May 22, 2006 in Topix.net Weblog

We're very jazzed to announce a deal that we've just signed with the AP. We'll using our technology to guide users to the most authoritative source of breaking news across the country by applying our clustering and localization technology to...

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Topix.net For Sale

8:23 pm - June 6, 2006 in Topix.net Weblog

On Saturday, Steve Rubel outed our Classified System, which we've been quietly baking on our local news pages for about a month. While we still think it's a bit premature to crow about this, given that a classified system...

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Topix.net/ZIP: Local News + Mobile Support = Best Mobile News Site

9:32 pm - July 19, 2006 in Topix.net Weblog

It took our CEO buying a Blackberry to make it happen, but we just launched our new Topix.net/ZIP service, including support for mobile devices. It's really cool. You can now get local news for every ZIP code in the...

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Biggest Index, Most Sources, Best News Search Our Dial Goes to 11

1:28 pm - August 7, 2006 in Topix.net Weblog

We've just launched a totally new version of the Topix.net News Search - adding an index of news and blog results going back over a year, and providing a click-o-gram (interactive histogram) of news results giving people a view...

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Topix on Fora.TV!

4:11 pm - February 26, 2009 in Topix.net Weblog

The IAA put on a breakfast on conversational marketing, which was well attended by folks from all parts of the advertisign ecosystem, brands, agencies and publishers. I thought it was a pretty good example of people speaking for their constituencies...

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Topix at SXSW: Come say hi!

8:34 pm - March 10, 2009 in Topix.net Weblog

I am going to be moderating a panel at SXSW Interactive this year, User Generated Content: State of the Union - thanks to the invitation of Dean McCall, the founder of IdeaGin, and it would be great to see...

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The future of News is here. Has an office.

3:00 pm - March 14, 2009 in Topix.net Weblog

After I moderated my panel of user generated content yesterday, I popped into the talk Steven Berlin Johnson gave on the Ecosystem of News , then was nearly bluedgeoned on twitter by the number of people urging the internet to...

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Topix at Web 2.0, local audiences and local advertising

4:33 pm - April 9, 2009 in Topix.net Weblog

Lots of discussion around the fate of the news business -- for us, connecting our local audiences to business wanting to reach them seems to be a growing part of our revenues, and I'm on the road talking about that...

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LAist interviews Topix

7:26 pm - April 10, 2009 in Topix.net Weblog

Mark Dienger, roving reporter for the LAist interviewed my at the Web 2.0 show, and I think he teased out a pretty good overview of Topix, the opportunity for local content and advertising as well as my take on LA...

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Topix becomes #1 news site of Gannett, Tribune & McClatchy Internet Portfolio

10:34 am - April 21, 2009 in Topix.net Weblog

In March of 2005, we received investment from the three largest newspaper companies in the US, Gannett, Tribune and Knight Ridder. Flash forward four years: In March 2009, we edged out USA TODAY to become their #1 media property at...

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