After having lunch on Friday with Chris Tolles of Topix, which is owned by newspapers, I was struck again by how newspapers a blowing an opportunity by not leveraging the heck out of that site and its assets. Here’s my previous post on the subject.
Topix’s community content, Tolles informs me, is growing very fast. That plus local content (notwithstanding Yahoo!’s recent addition of local news) are Topix’s two big differentiators.
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