Three Months to Scale NewsBlur

Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by MatthewPhillips on Sunday March 17, 2013 @09:21PM (#5391855)

Indeed. If one were wise, you could stalk Google/Yahoo/BigCo properties that are being neglected, launch a paid competitor and reap the reward when they shut down.

Pinboard and now Newsblur.

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by StavrosK on Sunday March 17, 2013 @09:56PM (#5391947)

Quick, someone make a search engine!

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by vineet on Sunday March 17, 2013 @10:54PM (#5392153)

See https://duckduckgo.com/ :-)

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by boyter on Monday March 18, 2013 @12:07AM (#5392390)

Thats actually a really good idea.

I wonder what would be next? Most of Yahoo's properties seem be be neglected at the moment, but what about Google? Google News perhaps?

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by MatthewPhillips on Monday March 18, 2013 @09:16AM (#5393902)

Probably Google Alerts. It's rather niche but people who use it absolutely rely on it. But the VC-funded Mention seems poised to take that one.

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by MiguelHudnandez on Monday March 18, 2013 @02:30PM (#5396171)

Google Alerts is a good candidate. Pardon anecdotal evidence, but the people in my circles who rely on it are executives who watch for their own names, or brand managers who watch for coverage of their company.

This information is very valuable and I'm sure a good service could charge a nice premium.

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by darkspaten on Monday March 18, 2013 @04:53PM (#5397063)

I've received some deliverables from a marketing team which uses the following service for just such a purpose (at a nice premium) @ https://www.meltwater.com/products/meltwater-news/online-med...

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by frankdenbow on Monday March 18, 2013 @10:27AM (#5394343)

I have been using warble.co recently, which does alerts for twitter

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by bobdvb on Monday March 18, 2013 @05:17AM (#5393173)

flikr -> openphoto

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Re:Three Months to Scale NewsBlur by misiti3780 on Sunday March 17, 2013 @10:48PM (#5392127)

but delicious is still around, it was never shutdown, and from what i can tell, is better (from a functionality perspective) and has a bigger community than pinboard. the site design of pinboard alone turns me off to it

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