Comments on: NYTimes permalinks

By: Kenny Easwaran

Kenny Easwaran — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:13:17 +0000

I would guess that they include Facebook for the same reason that the SF symphony and opera give student discounts – it helps win future customers.

By: Eszter

Eszter — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:31:24 +0000

John, when logged in to your account on del.icio.us, click on Settings and then under Blogging select “daily blog posting”. You can see the output on my blog. Unfortunately, there is no option to customize the title so I edit the “links” word to capitalized “Links” every time. I’ve been using it for almost a year now, it looks like my first post was January 1st of this year. I think it’s great. Some people don’t like such blog content, but I appreciate it on other people’s blogs and I also find it to be a helpful backup of my own links for myself. Plus at least some of my blog readers seem to like it.

By: britta

britta — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:26:40 +0000

john: check out “daily blog posting” on your settings page. :)

By: John Faughnan

John Faughnan — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:27:21 +0000

Huh?”would be del.icio.us in my case thanks to its automated post-to-blog feature.” I searched all over, couldn’t find any mention of this. Do you have a link to any docs? It might make me use my ancient account there.

By: Eszter

Eszter — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:58:50 +0000

Jacob, thanks for doing the research for me.:) It would be nice to have a bit more info. Or perhaps they really didn’t think about it any more carefully? It doesn’t quite address why some arguably more relevant (or at least as relevant) sites were left off the list.

Adrian, I know that Facebook is much more inclusive now, but that doesn’t mean that the users have necessarily expanded in other groups and I certainly haven’t seen any figures suggesting that college students are no longer its main user base, or that it has really taken off in other crowds. (That said, I haven’t researched sources on this.)

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:20:53 +0000

Maybe the Facebook thing is activism: as one of my professors said, when she noticed that not a single student in the room read the NYT, “you all must be getting your information from, er… Other Sources.”

By: Jacob Christensen

Jacob Christensen — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:44:57 +0000

For lazy readers or just in case the article is moved – here are the two quotes form the Seattle PI article linked in #1 mentioning specifics about the cooperation:

Davidson declined to comment when asked if The New York Times had considered investing in Newsvine. He said there is no revenue-sharing agreement, adding that it is simply a technology deal. It is the biggest newspaper partnership for Newsvine since its March debut.

And:

Christine Topalian, manager of strategic planning and business development at NYTimes.com, said it was looking for ways to tap a tech-savvy audience that is accustomed to commenting on and sharing news stories. The newspaper contacted Digg and Newsvine directly, with Facebook approaching The Times after developing a news-feed service earlier this year.

(There is also a partial quote of the latter in the Mulife page linked in the post).

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:51:20 +0000

Facebook as of September lets anyone join; I couldn’t say how many non-students have done so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Opening_of_Facebook

By: talboito

talboito — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:01:05 +0000

Like anything else, the choices available have to do with money and marketing. By the way, if you want to be hip and with it, call that "space", "Iconistan".