Wednesday, January 18, 2006
BUSINESS MODELS: Gather.COM and competitors seeking to cash in on freelance blogging and advertising
SEE:
http://mistersnitch.blogspot.com/2006/01/flood-of-startup-money-may-enable.html
The blogger "Mister Snitch!" has posted a somewhat disjointed -- but thoughtful and well-linked -- roundup of information on some of the startups seeking to make money by aggregating free-lance blogger writers, then sell advertising around them. The post is precipitated by a story in the Sat., Jan. 14, Boston Globe, about Gather.COM, funded by the founder of Lotus Development Corp. and the New York investment bank, Allen & Co. But there are others, writes Mister Snitch, including (with links to writeups about them):
SQUIDOO:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/01/squidoo_update.html
BACKFENCE:
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/11/30/lz_bcfc.html
PERSONAL BEE:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/08/22/the-personal-bee-a-better-way-to-read-news/
Others include:
NEWSVINE:
http://www.newsvine.com/
