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Re: OneSpot Launches Publishing-as-a-Service Platform. What’s That?

Jake Rutter — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:07:21 -0000

Cool Idea, we have been doing something like since December. We aggregate all the best content for sports and allow you to filter which sources you would prefer to get your news from. Soon we will be adding widgets, which will allow other sites to grab out content and place it on their sites. Check out FanBoom.com!

Re: OneSpot Launches Publishing-as-a-Service Platform. What’s That?

Matt Cohen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:33:18 -0000

Kristen - thanks for the insightful review! Excellent point about email: it may be old school, but it's still the primary way of sending content to most people - it tends to get underestimated in the "Web 2.0" discussion.

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Re: OneSpot Launches Publishing-as-a-Service Platform. What’s That?

Matt Cohen — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:04:31 -0000

We've definitely been watching the AP story with interest - a lot of us are hoping that a reasonable compromise will come out of the current discussions....

Re: OneSpot Launches Publishing-as-a-Service Platform. What’s That?

Matt Cohen — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:00:24 -0000

Sphere, as you say, finds "related content" - content that is related to a particular article. OneSpot is more of a "top stories" engine: it finds the stories from around the Web that are likely to be interesting to a given audience, independent of any specific story. Put another way, OneSpot can find interesting content even for people who don't have content at all to start with.

We see Sphere as a complimentary service: as you also say, OneSpot and Sphere are used by a number of the same sites.

Re: OneSpot Launches Publishing-as-a-Service Platform. What’s That?

Ling — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:21:38 -0000

Doesn't Sphere already do something like this? I've seen 'Related content from Sphere' on sites like WashingtonPost.