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TechCrunch: Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders

Thursday, 28 April 2011, 10:25

"Yahoo has finally found a buyer for long suffering Delicious. YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired the company, says Yahoo, via a “new Internet company, AVOS. … The YouTube founders plan to work closely with the community…

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New Media Age: Power is shifting in who chooses the news

Thursday, 17 February 2011, 16:58

Michael Nutley: "The role of editors has been vital to the media success stories of recent years, where niche audiences have proved willing to pay for products closely tailored to their interests. … We may be approaching a tipping point, however…

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Spiegel Online: Chris Anderson on the Economics of ‘Free’: ‘Maybe Media Will Be a Hobby Rather than a Job’

Thursday, 30 July 2009, 08:19

Chris Anderson: "I read lots of articles from mainstream media but I don't go to mainstream media directly to read it. It comes to me, which is really quite common these days. More and more people are choosing social filters for their news rather than professional filters. We're tuning out television news, we're tuning out newspapers. And we still hear about the important stuff, it's just that it's not like this drumbeat of bad news. It's news that matters."

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 Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 07:47 0

"AideRSS is a Godsend. It analyzes the activity around each item in an RSS feed — Technorati hits, comments, Del.icio.us links, traffic reports, etc. — and calculates a score for the item."