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Getting some buzz
Posted By katie allison granju
Apparently media legends Tina Brown and Barry Diller plan to copy Knox’d with their own aggregated-by-actual-human-editors news site:
A fresh site for aggregating links to the hottest news stories is coming courtesy of Barry Diller and Tina Brown.
Diller and his InterActiveCorp business will bankroll the effort, which doesn’t have a name or a launch date. The site will be run by Brown, the so-called “Queen of Buzz” famous for having once been the editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
Brown also authored The Diana Chronicles, her tell-all book about Princess Diana, and is writing The Clinton Chronicles for release in 2010.
Diller, IAC, and Brown aren’t discussing details of their venture, though published reports have former Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Edward Felsenthal as the site’s planned editor.
The story compares the planned Diller/Brown venture to Drudge and The Huffington Post, but misses the point that both Drudge and HuffPo have a very distinct angle, voice, and point of view. That’s why people come to the sites.
Without that, I predict failure, no matter how well-connected the backers are.
Apr 7th, 2008
I dunno … who copied who?
http://alltop.com/
But at least they seem to encourage others to use the same idea
As much Patrick and I would like to take the credit, if you read our About page you see that we drew inspiration from sites like Alltop and popurls. Thanks for the link though! That’s why we love you Katie.