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The leading news community on the Web has recently executed a “re-invention” of their already successful website. Topix connects people to news and information in every town and city in the United States. People can catch the latest news in their own areas, and then see what’s going on in the town they’re planning a [...] Tags: Chris Tolles, Google, Jimmy Wales, Topix, Web2Expo, Wikipedia

News gathering site Topix has relaunched with a new look and an updated focus on citizen journalism. The updated site will continue to build on its localized news success by inviting readers to read, discuss, and even edit local news stories. Topix also turned on the new site under the topix dot com domain, which [...] Tags: Journalism, Local News, News Update, Rich Skrenta, SEO, Topix

SEO critic Jason Calacanis may have to backtrack from his old opinions. After he accepted a challenge from Neil Patel over optimizing the Calacanis web site to receive more search engine traffic, Patel’s first efforts have yielded a twenty-one percent increase. Patel said on his blog that only about ten percent of the changes he [...] Tags: Andy Beal, Calacanis, ComputerWorld, e-Tech, Google, Jason Calacanis, Kathy Sierra, Neil Patel, Rich Skrenta, Robert Scoble, Topix

Microsoft may be ready to pay eight hundred million, or possibly more, to acquire TellMe Networks. TellMe is a voice applications company that enables speech recognition, and could be very important to Microsoft’s mobile Internet plans. Last year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the Wall Street Journal that “The leading edge battleground between us and [...] Tags: Beet TV, Dynamic, Google, Live, Microsoft, Phone, Podzinger, TellMe Networks, Topix