Topix quietly builds momentum in small towns
The lament of newspapers has become familiar by now: With readers moving online, the once community-binding dailies are falling apart, losing both readers and advertisers. That’s especially true for small town papers. But a growing site called Topix is picking up where they’ve left off, self-reportedly reaching over one hundred million pageviews a month.
Topix has come a long way since its inception. Originally conceived as a news aggregator consolidating thousands of sources for local audiences,… Continue Reading
The dirt on Amazon, Steve Jobs, Topix, Fatdoor, MySpace, VC tax and more
Here’s the latest action:
Amazon’s odd and scary patent — First, Amazon rolled out a product called Mechancial Turk (image left), where people do tasks for you that a machine couldn’t perform. Strange name, we thought, but nicely couched in history, and the people still ruled. But the latest Amazon patent puts the machine in charge, breaking down tasks, and commanding the human to do them. According to the patent, just awarded, “the humans perform the subtasks… Continue Reading