Comments on: Inform.com Re-Launches with Major Feature Changes

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UK hosting web services — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:02:57 +0000

Seems interesting, but are they making any money?

By: dailywireless.org » DayLife

dailywireless.org » DayLife — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:22:24 +0000

[...] Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, an investor in Daylife, pans it in a review on his site. Daylife enters the market about a year after a slew of other competitors came out with their products. Gather.com, Inform.com, NewsVine and Topix all have competing products. Google News reigns over all of them. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Daylife Launches, Starts Very Long Uphill Climb

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:43:27 +0000

[...] But Daylife enters the market about a year after a slew of other competitors came out with their products. Gather.com, Inform.com, NewsVine and Topix all have competing products. Google News reigns over all of them. [...]

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By: jbyers - blog » Tale of the Tape: Inform

jbyers - blog » Tale of the Tape: Inform — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:03:01 +0000

[...] In case you looked at Squidoo’s graph and weren’t impressed, here’s a sobering comparison. I went poking around for sites that were TechCrunched around the same time Squidoo was in beta to see how other big-buzz launches stacked up. Inform.com caught my eye because of their launch double-whammy: a New York Times feature followed shortly by a TechCrunch evisceration. Five months later – with a more favorable second look by TechCrunch in December, the picture is not good. [...]

By: TechCrunch » The Gather.com Issue

TechCrunch » The Gather.com Issue — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:54:07 +0000

[...] Bloggers are generally giving Gather a big thumbs down. Mathew Ingram does a particularly good job in talking about all the competitors. He left out the massively funded Inform.com though, another service that has struggled with product direction but that is clearly taking criticisms constructively. Tags: gather, inform, techcrunch, news, web2.0, web 2.0 Categories: Company & Product Profiles | Bookmark this post with del.icio.us [...]

By: James

James — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:30:29 +0000

Hmmm, clicking on any story crashes Safari outright. Interesting that they don’t even use HTML links but opted for (apparently non-functional) javascript instead. After the popup fiasco and now this, I wonder if anyone technical is leading the charge over there.

It just seems like someone had a decent idea for a web site but couldn’t find anyone competent to build it. I know this is still a beta but these sorts of things are not “kinks” really… they are poor decisions made at the architecture level. Almost unthinkable ones really, in this day and age.

By: Sarat Pediredla

Sarat Pediredla — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:39:03 +0000

Thats it! If I see one more Smiley graphic ad on a “Web 2.0″ site, I will flip.

RSS aggregators are abundant and yet I still like the look of Inform. So, here I am looking at the slick interface and clicking around when I notice the dreaded graphic smiley ad.

Alas, we cannot do away with advertising but that specific ad ONLY reminds me of spam sites and cheap tricks.

By: Ed Dunn

Ed Dunn — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:41:32 +0000

My belief is once you launch a business and you didn’t win over the critics, focus on developing strategies that will build your business looking foward.

I’m going to assume Inform.com PR went out the way to communicate their new “technical” features to the blogosphere. I do not understand this approach. Initial launch, they went out and got MSM publicity, bloggers wrote about them very critically and the past is the past. I say get over the past – get to business!

Inform.com is in a hostile competitive market – headlines aggegration. Mainstream media is fighting mad for survival, Search engines and portals are competiting hard and Inform.com need get in the fight instead of trying to win over bloggers for nice reviews.

In other words, mentioning these new features have little value when Inform.com haven’t answer the question why should anyone use Inform.com and how do their service differentiate?

By: Gtox

Gtox — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:42:48 +0000

looks ok, although i hate it when i can’t middle-click the links/stories in firefox