NYTimes.com Expanding Its Tech Section, And We’re Part of It
The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) has expanded its tech ambitions online: it has relaunched its tech section in a major way, and added some cool features, including what can be characterized as a Techmeme competitor. It has added third party sources such as IDG and selected stories from our site as well. Besides the syndication deals, it has added an automated tech news/blog aggregator from its other site Blogrunner (which it bought early last year). Says Saul Hansell, the tech section editor in an e-mail: “Unlike Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News and Techmeme, we aren’t trying to prove machines can be better editors than people. We have a hybrid model, with Web Crawlers and Editors both helping find and ranks posts.” More details in the release.
From from Saul on the Bits blog about the relaunch.
Disclaimer: We have a syndication deal with NYTimes.com, whereby the site is publishing selected stories from paidContent.org.
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Comments (4)
Nov 1, 2007 7:41 PM
Wow! Techmeme actually mentioned on paidContent! Almost believed Techmeme was of no consequence to the media industry until the above allowance of a characterization.
Uncorking champagne now. :-)
Nov 1, 2007 10:00 PM
The Times is just doing what any newspaper does when it needs a new idea when its somes to layout or design. They steal it. Newspapers are the slowest moving creatures when it comes to creative design.
Nov 1, 2007 10:11 PM
Hey Gabe
I don’t think they exactly are…a sidebar in a sub-section of NYTimes.com does not make it a competitor to Techmeme…but I think they’re trying to position it as such. Hence my use of the word “characterized” :)
Nov 1, 2007 11:48 PM
Gabe, I bet when you one-day sell Techmeme for megabucks, you’ll be all over PaidContent.org. : )