Laurel Papworth

JANUARY 17, 2010

Business: An online newspaper/news aggregator and group blog. We estimate about $10 million in 2009 revenue and apply a 15-times multiple (higher than other blogs given growth and brand strength) to arrive at a $150 million valuation. Monetizing: Virtual Goods venture capital 2009 (2). Estimated Value: $150 million.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

It wasn’t until a couple of months later, that the #SanDiegoFire hashtag was sparked to aggregate tweets and updates about the California wildfires. In 2009, Twitter capitalized on the hashtag by adding hyperlink capabilities. The first tweet ever, posted by co-founder @Jack Dorsey read: “just setting up my twttr.”

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Swix also plans to publish its own API so that third-parties can push and pull Swix data into other applications. Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

I also have doubts that blocking the submitter data would even work, because of the API. Why is Digg allowing third-party sites to aggregate the statistics? Sites like [link] use the Digg API to pull in the information and display it and Chris’s site does the same. Problem solved.&# People will do it, regardless.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

We are launching in Boston, MA and New Hampshire in June and will expand to the other major markets around the country in Q4 2008 and 2009. This is the reason why they have been so conservative making an API available as this is where the value of their business resides. aggregators. Posted by: pierreloic | May 21, 2008 3:30 PM.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 22, 2011

But I accept at face -value the argument that News.com is being impartial, and aggregating opinions. The collecting of different original source material from community members and shaping it into an aggregated story (quotes from Experts Du Jour, statistics, photographs) becomes the bards’ oops journalists’ content.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

100 Blog Topics I Hope YOU Write (Chris Brogan): This post should keep you devoid of writer’s block until at least 2009… 101 Essential Blogging Skills (Skelliewag): You need not possess all 101, but they certainly help. Definitive List of Video Aggregator Sites (SEO Space): There are a lot of video sites beyond YouTube.

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