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Re: Guidelines for competing with Twitter (Scripting News)

Yakov Shafranovich — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:36:42 -0000

Dave,

The issue is the money. Twitter is spending serious money on a free service and they have yet to make money of it. Messaging costs money. Servers costs money. Unless a very big investement is made is would not work.

A distributed twitter can be made today. Use XMPP. Use Amazon SQS. But who is going to pay for it?

Re: Announcing Tech.NewsJunk.Com (Scripting News)

Yakov Shafranovich — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:37:11 -0000

Dave,

Is there an OPML list of feeds that it is based on?

Re: Amazon S3 down all day (Scripting News)

Yakov Shafranovich — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:45:17 -0000

Nirvanix is their competitor. Trivial to hook up to. Take a look at:

http://www.nirvanix.com

Re: Opening the newsroom, Step 1 (Scripting News)

Yakov Shafranovich — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:26:16 -0000

Dave,

Have you seen http://www.examiner.com/about_examiner/? They are getting local people to blog and write news for them for the share of the online ad revenue.

Re: HP's BookPrep could be springboard for book sites

Yakov Shafranovich — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:34:49 -0000

Take a look at the following similar service:

http://www.publicdomainreprints.org

Re: 2007/07/13/tagging-tools/

Yakov Shafranovich — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:19:04 -0000

There is also this site:

www.shaftag.com

It allows you to search multiple places by tag.