Archive | December, 2009

Getting Indexed in Google News

I chatted with CT Moore from NVI Interactive Strategy at Pubcon a few months back about several topics including some of the things we’ve seen from Google News in the past year or so. Note to self: Remember to take off that ridiculously large event badge next time.

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Business Wire “Super Charging” Press Releases

Business Wire recently announced the launch of “unique features that ‘super-charge’ press releases.”  After spending several minutes trying to slice my way through marketing sludge (that included an actual reference to “global-mobile-social-measurable features”) I think I managed to distill the following: Increased mobile distribution – Business Wire will be distributing content via the mobile applications [...]

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PressLift Review

File sharing company drop.io is currently working on a news release creation tool called PressLift.  PRNewser’s Joe Ciarallo provided a good synopsis of PressLift this past week. Without taking a deep dive into the product, the key components seem to include: A basic CMS that will provide users with the ability to create a Web [...]

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Review of Google’s Living Stories

Yesterday, the Google News team announced the beta launch of Living Stories, a platform that aims to provide a new way for users to consume news.  The prototype blends Google technology with content from the Washington Post and New York Times. According to Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager at Google News, “The idea behind [...]

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