Comments on: Fwix Drives Local News Aggregation Via Custom Algorithms http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/04/27/fwix-drives-local-news-aggregation-via-custom-algorithms/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Www.Alittletenderness.com http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/04/27/fwix-drives-local-news-aggregation-via-custom-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-2641782 Thu, 22 May 2014 07:18:10 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=7135#comment-2641782 Dеnke, daѕs аn ԁіеѕem Օгt ɑսѕgеաaеhltе Eіntrаеɡе еіn ScҺսsѕ vօn Ԁem ԜеsеntlіcҺеn аƅԝеіchen, еin Βіѕѕerl іst ɡеleɡеntlіcҺ aսch սеbегtгеіbеn, Ԁеnn
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]]> By: Chris Tolles http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/04/27/fwix-drives-local-news-aggregation-via-custom-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-432537 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:38:09 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=7135#comment-432537 Peter:

Nice piece. Glad to see that you are covering local news aggregation so thoroughly!
Also, I’m happy to see that there are folks coming into the space — It ups the attention, and is a probably good for all of us.

Let’s be clear with regard to differentiation between FWIX and Topix:
– Instead of hand cranking per city, Topix’technology covers 38,000 localities and 211,000 other topics from 70,000 different sources.
– There just *isn’t* much local news in many towns and cities across the US, so with our 100M comments, we *are* the news in many of the small towns where we have gotten takeoff.
– Not sure where the unique visitors numbers came from — comScore has Topix at 8.4M uniques in March of 2010 and FWIX at 100k. Kind of curious as to what stats you are using.

My large takeaway is that there just isn’t enough local news to power a major business, and you have to use aggregation as a base for soemthing else — inour case, being the home of local voice on the web.

FWIX seems to be getting some great partnerships, headlines and is pushing product out the door, so am looking forward to seeing how they take on the challenges of growing traffic.

Chris Tolles
CEO Topix

]]> By: Peter Krasilovsky http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/04/27/fwix-drives-local-news-aggregation-via-custom-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-432492 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:52:55 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=7135#comment-432492 Joe and Colin: Thanks for writing in.1- Joe, my take is that Darian and the guys are trying to break away from keywords. I am not sure how that plays out. 2- Colin, it also feels to me like Topix Redux. I am writing an update on Topix now.

]]> By: Colin Mathews http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/04/27/fwix-drives-local-news-aggregation-via-custom-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-432237 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:12:14 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=7135#comment-432237 Please explain how this is not Topix 2.0.

]]> By: Joe Murphy http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2010/04/27/fwix-drives-local-news-aggregation-via-custom-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-432233 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:56:51 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=7135#comment-432233 Hi, I’ve got one question after reading this article: What, exactly, does “linguistic quality” mean when it comes to search engine algorithms?

-Joe

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