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Topix News Archives for May 2008

May 27, 2008 | readwritetalk.com | ADalton

ReadWriteTalk Interview with Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix

Topix is an interesting hyper-local media company. The company uses a blend of algorithms and human editors to aggregate and classify news stories into different topics, with the majority of stories being classified into topics about different geographies.

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Related Topix: Tagged News

Thu May 22, 2008

www.womenshealthmag.com | ADalton

Topix Named to Women's Health Magazine's 100 Best Websites

With thousands of local sections for 32,500 U.S. zip codes, this site includes stories, blogs, and links - corralled from more than 50,000 news sources.

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Related Topix: Life, Blog News, Recipes

Wed May 21, 2008

CNET News.com

Search engine Blekko gets more funding

Last year, Blekko raised $2 million from Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers. They joined in this round, along with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, SoftTech VC and Western Technology Investment.

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Related Topix: Open Directory Project, Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Tagged News

Wed May 14, 2008

mashable.com | ADalton

Mochila and Innovation: New Video Player and Comments on Reuters API

Mochila isn't announcing a new partner , but the new player has kicked in a lot more functionality.

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www.bnet.com | ADalton

Chris Tolles: Localizing Internet News

Chris Tolles is CEO of Topix, an online local news aggregator. Tolles talks about the shortcomings that most news sources carry and gives fresh perspective on his target user base.

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Tue May 13, 2008

The Future of Music, Media & Entertai...

media outlets with the most engaged audiences will thrive... News.com on Topix

"Tolles operates on the sound assumption that the media outlets with the most engaged audiences will thrive. via The Future of Music, Media & Entertai...

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