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Re: New York Times Launches TimesPeople Social Networking Site

sameer_bhardwaj — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:16:46 -0000

Hi to all.........

Re: New York Times Launches TimesPeople Social Networking Site

Colin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:51:54 -0000

"if you love the NYTimes then you should enjoy TimesPeople."

Maybe not.

I've been a NYT reader for most of the last 35 years so I guess that makes me "loyal," though I have no emotional attachment and certainly don't "love" it. But it's the premier U.S. newspaper and a site I look at half a dozen times a day and spend 15-30 minutes daily in. So they've got my eyeballs for their ads.

If I want social networking, I'll use a dedicated social networking site.

I go the nytimes.com for news, period. Nothing else. I understand why they want to try and leverage the brand into other stuff, but I wish it didn't get in the way. For example on the TMobile G1, the TimesPeople bar is almost impossible to get rid of, and it takes up 10% of the tiny screen and moves around jerkily, obscuring the screen.

Re: New York Times Launches TimesPeople Social Networking Site

michael — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:31:39 -0000

"Naturally some people will be concerned about security and privacy matters regarding their activities on the NYTimes website."

True - but its worth clarifying the point that TimesPeople is opt-in. You have to take active measures to be able to perform recommendations and other actions. Even then, only what you choose to send is collected - there is no 'monitoring'. In addition, you can always delete individual activities from your feed or disable Sharing entirely.

Re: New York Times Launches TimesPeople Social Networking Site

www.artikel32.com — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:50:36 -0000

How they say :
TimesPeople is a new way to discover what other readers find interesting on our site â€” and to make recommendations of your own.

So we should beleive them?

Re: New York Times Launches TimesPeople Social Networking Site

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:02:12 -0000

Good suggestion on a social network for a group of newspapers, could make better sense here. After all, I would not say that NYTimes overloads us with the number of articles that we could really need a recommendation engine. What's more, it could be better off as an application for Facebook or LinkedIn (better yet) instead of making us build yet another network of friends.