http://blog.topix.net/ News and information about Topix. en-us amy@topix.net 2009-11-03T16:00:15-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000245.html Today, Topix launched its new community toolbar, powered by Conduit. Never miss a reply to your comments. Stay on top of the latest news for your town. Grab the most popular headlines and Top Stories. Right in your browser. Already... 245@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-11-03T16:00:15-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000244.html We really love local news. We see ourselves at Topix as part of the local ecosystem of news and community, especially in towns which have a lot of usage (We have nearly a million daily page views in Tennessee, mainly... 244@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-09-25T15:32:27-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000243.html Today, Topix launched its first iPhone app, the Topix Aura. With in-depth coverage nationwide, Topix Aura dynamically updates local information based on your GPS location or saved ZIP code. You can easily browse a stream of the latest local information,... 243@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-09-11T10:35:03-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000242.html It’s that time again. Time to cast your vote, make yourself heard, and decide the agenda for the 2010 SXSW Interactive Conference. Last year, Chris Tolles moderated a lively panel on User Generated Content. LA Weekly wrote a great... 242@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-08-20T11:42:31-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000241.html An article in the Daily Telegraph, making the "what's all this, then?" argument that the "social media revolution is going nowhere". came my way on Twitter via Andrew Keen. The author makes a bunch of vaguely arguable points, damns the... 241@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-08-19T15:16:43-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000240.html Great story on SFGate from the Chronicle regarding how their commentary helped show the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, who had threatened a BART strike, just what the public thought of this during these difficult economic time. We here at... 240@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-08-18T13:02:20-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000239.html Got a chance to bat cleanup at the Twiistup conference down in Los Angeles with a conversation around startups with Jason Calacanis. His show This week in startups had me on as the guest, which also served as the closing... 239@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-08-02T18:16:14-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000238.html Sigh. I guess its time for another crop of news products from journalists. Why is it that when these guys all go onto the field of battle "once more into the breach" style, they don't understand which side of the... 238@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-07-18T09:08:33-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000237.html The recent news about Google's new Chrome OS was a great case study in why Steven Berlin Johnson was right about the state of the tech news business. We had Google with their own blog post, being chased by Miguel... 237@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-07-09T09:43:21-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000236.html Peter Kafka of AllthingsD, got Mark Josephson, CEO of Outside.in to project what the "online newspaper for tomorrow" might look like. Mark posited that with 40MM monthly pageviews, and $560k of revenue (half is which is from a network of... 236@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-06-24T14:07:53-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000235.html You know what the Internet is good for? Shopping. Researching the best deal. Sleuthing quality through reviews. And shopping. And I'm not talking about e-commerce (although I'm as big a fan of Zappos as anyone). I'm talking about finding out... 235@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-06-10T12:26:21-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000234.html Here at Topix, we receive a lot of press releases. Since we post our news by aggregation or volunteer editors, these releases usually end up in the circular file. But this press release caught my eye today, when it came... 234@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-05-29T14:14:43-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000233.html Many thanks to the Topix community and CNET Webware editors for voting Topix a Webware 100 Winner in the Location-Based Services category. The 2009 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading... 233@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-05-18T13:18:10-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000232.html Virginia Heffernan's article Comment is King in yesterday's Sunday NY Times magazine was an insightful piece around the role of commentary on news sites like the Washington Post, Salte and others -- although perhaps more insightful than she intended.. For... 232@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-04-27T13:33:04-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000231.html In March of 2005, we received investment from the three largest newspaper companies in the US, Gannett, Tribune and Knight Ridder. Flash forward four years: In March 2009, we edged out USA TODAY to become their #1 media property at... 231@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-04-21T07:34:53-08:00