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    • Daniel Bachhuber of Publish2 and CoPress linked this on December 1, 2009 at 4:42PM EST
    • Daniel said: A beta could be released into the wild as early as the beginning of next year.
      Quote: At present, we are close to wrapping up development on the four elements that constitute our basic offering. First, we now have a real-time stream of content, which includes database scrapes of selected public records, RSS feeds of news sources and blogs, tweets, Flickr and Picasa photos, YouTube videos, and placeholder advertisements. Second, we have a working stream engine that pushes content to web-enabled smartphones and our web widget. Third, we have a real-time filter that enables the end user to filter the stream for items that contain specific words or text strings. Fourth, we’ve built a web-based dashboard that newspaper advertising staffs can use to manage and analyze ads and ad campaigns.
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    • Daniel Bachhuber of Publish2 and CoPress linked this on November 4, 2009 at 1:29AM EST
    • Daniel said: More interestingly, they've focused a lot of attention on unique ways of presenting content, including TribWire and topical landing pages.
      Quote: Tribune CEO and editor Evan Smith took me on a tour through the site last night, showing off what he and a staff of just 16 (plus some outside help from Austin design group FlashBang) have put together in just three months of ramp-up time. Smith points out that Trib (as it tends to call itself) is not just about journalism, but about information and context. And in fact, the depth of political information already offered on the site puts to shame the offerings of many metro newspapers with vastly larger reporting, technical and design resources than the Trib.
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    • Daniel Bachhuber of Publish2 and CoPress linked this on October 30, 2009 at 5:24PM EDT
    • Daniel said: Current revenue streams are advertising, syndication, and subscription Passport service. The subscription service has 500 paying customers currently; they hope to scale to "25,000 or 50,000 members in the years ahead."
      Quote: Phil Balboni, chief executive of GlobalPost, said the company is on pace to generate $1 million in revenue this year and expects $3 million in revenue next year, which would reduce their operating loss by 50 percent. (He didn't say so explicitly, but you might deduce from those numbers that GlobalPost's annual expenses are $5 million.) The goal is to achieve profitability by 2012.

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Portland Media Lab Contributors

Daniel Bachhuber Editorial Intern and Executive Director, Publish2 and CoPress
Cornelius Swart publisher, Portland Sentinel
Rebecca Robinson Freelance Writer, Various
Becca Robinson News Editor, Portland Sentinel
Abraham Hyatt Production Editor, ReadWriteWeb
Steven Walling Writer, ReadWriteWeb