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    • No Acquisition For Digg - Raise Series B Round Instead

      Posted by Jeff from Tech Crunch

      Interestingly, the post claims Digg is not yet profitable despite earlier reports that it was. I expect to see some further changes in their model. This makes me doubt NewsVine's claim that it will be profitable early in 2007. By the way, Digg has 18 people - how many people do you think it takes to build NewsCloud?

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    • New York Times adds sharing tool

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      The New York Times now allows readers to share with Digg and Newsvine ... and FaceBook(?). Interesting move. Seems experimental to me. Definitely a coupe for Newsvine because they seem to gain the most from the deal. The New York Times is also adding a permalink feature (wow?). Anyway, this won't apply to premium firewall content.

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      News brought to you by the average Joe

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      Blogs have long been a home for personal essays and observations, but they're also a key tool for citizen journalists. Some of the best-known citizen journalism sites started off as blogs, but have since acquired a more professional sheen. A notable example is Talking Points Memo, a well-read, three-employee political blog that its creator says is profitable. "What's powerful about what the Web has done is it allowed a lot more voices and information to make it to the surface than ever before," said Jeff Reifman, a Seattle software developer who worked at Microsoft for eight years. Reifman recently redesigned his news-aggregator site and changed its name from CommonTimes to NewsCloud. But writing is difficult, he said, and it takes time and expertise to cover a "beat." Generally, people who write blogs are not in it to break news. A recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life project said that only a third of the 12 million American adults who keep a blog consider them to be journalism.

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      Idealog: NewsVine and NewsCloud

      Posted by Jeff from Idealog.US

      I put some thoughts together comparing NewsCloud with NewsVine, one of the earlier social network news sites. I also wanted to share a bit more about what NewsCloud is about - our values, etc.

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    Damianmann comments on:

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    I didn’t know Newsvine was connected to Disney. Did I read that right?

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    4:33 pm 12/11/06
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    Jeff comments on:

    News brought to you by the average Joe

    We don’t even know each other – but I appreciate that you see the good will behind NewsCloud and the personal effort. That laptop in the picture is – as I type this – NewsCloud :)

    As for whether NewsCloud will eventually be for profit or non profit – this issue hasn’t been fully decided yet. The more I see of the problems in media – the more obvious that the problems are connected reliance on advertisers and profit—- hence nonprofit has its allure.

    However, I do need to get paid for this work at some point. Finding a way to support the site either through foundations – or advertising revenue will be important. I just want to be up front that the ultimate direction of the site has not yet been determined. A lot will depend on how it grows – and what opportunities exist out there in the foundation world. I am actively looking into these currently…

    Thanks again for your enthusiasm.

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    10:39 pm 9/27/06
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