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The numbers are in ... and once again, March has proven to be an interesting month here at Topix.net. To wit, March '04 marked our public launch, and in March '05 we closed on our $64M deal with Tribune, Gannett,...
Read 230% Growth: Happy Birthday Topix.net (Links)
Covering the news can be grim business. All of us know this intuitively -- at Topix.net we have the data: Last October, as Katrina ravaged New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, we saw our highest traffic levels in 2005....
Read Citizen Journalism: Alive in Caruthersville (Links)
Read Vast.com launches credit card search (Links)
Back on December 12th, we released a site redesign that included user forums on each of our news pages. We were pretty psyched about this -- a chance to let our users “talk back” to the news seemed like...
Read Topix.net forums on fire: the Ni-chan paradox (Links)
Thanks to a feed from the Knight Ridder/Tribune News Wire, Topix.net is now categorizing news photos based on their caption text into our 30,000 geographic and 300k+ subject feeds. We're hosting the full size photos, along with zippy thumbnail...
Read Topix Tags Photos (Links)
Read Work at Topix, Build a Better Informed Society (Links)
I wrote a post a couple of weeks back walking through the on-site and off-site earnings of Google and Yahoo. The upshot was that if the Internet’s publishing leader, Yahoo!, with all of its technology, hardware and, most importantly,...
Read Las Vegas – The New Publishing Capital? (Links)
Read Topix.net @ SES NY, Year 3 (Links)
Back when web directories were still cool, AOL had an effort to build their own based on the Dewey Decimal System. They had 60 contractors in Arizona typing in web urls and assigning DDC numbers to them. This didn't work....
Read Every word in every document is already a tag (Links)
Assistant editor Neil Macintosh of the Guardian writes: We are also thinking of revealing on the site every commenter's rough geographical location; information not exposed to the public before. Experiments on other sites suggest debates are more civil when everyone...
Read Guardian Copying Topix Forum Geolocation? (Links)
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