Linkworthy – BlogNation Canada, Publish2 and Blogscope
Posted by Joseph Thornley on August 19th, 2007
A set of links about start ups:
Tris Hussey edits the new BlogNation Canada. There’s lots of interesting things going on in Canada Web community. So, Tris should have a steady stream of posts.
Scott Karp announces his new venture, Publish2, “a social network and 2.0 platform … which aims to put journalists at the center of news on the web by creating a journalist-powered news aggregator.” Grounded in the belief that humans make better news judgments than humans, who better to make these judgments than journalists, including practitioners drawn from old and new media. Should be interesting.
A look at Blogscope, a new measurement tool for blogs
Jeremiah Owyang looks at Blogscope, an “analysis and visualization tool for blogosphere which is being developed as a research prototype at the University of Toronto.” In Jeremiah’s view, “The most interesting thing about BlogScope is that it’s feature set is available for free, so if you work for Nielsen, Cymfony, Factiva or others, … you should pay attention.”
August 19th, 2007 » 1:45 pm
Joe, thank you very much! Yes, Canada’s wealth of Web 2.0 companies is going to keep me busy. Sorry we didn’t get to chat more at Gnomedex!