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February 3, 2006

Newroo’s Real-Time News Aggregator

Michael Arrington

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San Francisco based Newroo, founded by Brown University graduates Brian Norgard and Dan Gould in 2005, is just two weeks away from launch.

Like Megite, Newroo is ultimately addressing the same market as Memeorandum. However, they have a number of squidoo-like features (this is meant as a compliment) to allow anyone to create their own topic-based version of the main service.

The basic engine is like Memeorandum - they index and group blog posts based on topics in order to show emerging news in near real-time and to show distributed blog discussion in a single place.

Newroo is launching with a number of verticals, including Brin Rank (Google news), Series C (Venture Capital news), Jockzilla (edgy sports news) and Celeb Trash (celebrity gossip). Pictured here is JockZilla, although all verticals currently have a similar look and feel.

Soon after launch Newroo will allow users to create and customize their own sites, starting with a clone of an existing site. The revenue model is based on presenting amazon affiliate links for items related to the news, and eventually they plan to share this revenue with the creators of the sites.

I know the founders but am not affiliated with them in any way. Nevertheless, I appreciate the link to TechCrunch on their current landing page.

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  1. Dan Gould

    February 3rd, 2006 at 11:47 pm

    Thank you for the nice comments.

    We figured there’s no real need to collect people’s email addresses since everyone who would sign up is probably subscribed to your feed.

    Our ad optimization system is actually pretty general–we’re just testing with Amazon since their API is nice.

    We’re excited to see how people use it once we’re launched and to talk to folks about what we can build for them.

    [And, a correction: I actually dropped out of Brown...]

  2. Michael Arrington

    February 3rd, 2006 at 11:49 pm

    Good. Dropouts are always more successful in the end. :-)

  3. Kevin Burton

    February 4th, 2006 at 1:27 am

    Should be interesting to watch… I TOLD you this is a new space ;)

    I do like “memetracker” as a name though…

    Kevin

  4. Kevin Burton

    February 4th, 2006 at 2:02 am

    Typo btw… “feal-time” …

    Also. I’m not even sure what this means other than a marketing pitch.

    By definition you can’t have a “realtime” memetracker because the community has to think about it before it explodes and becomes a meme. This takes time…

  5. Cadence

    February 5th, 2006 at 12:57 am

    My question is… why are they stealing Australia’s national animal for their web2.0 product… any of them got anythin to do with this glorious land down under?!

  6. Heath Row

    February 5th, 2006 at 5:30 pm

    “Squidoo-like features”… We’re flattered!

  7. Justin Lee

    March 14th, 2006 at 9:17 pm

    I wrote something about the coming emergence of news aggregators:

    “I think in the next couple of months, as these technologies continue improving, more people will turn their attention towards online newspapers and the competition will only get hotter as people begin to see the size of market. Algorithimic/automatic newspapers are disruptive technologies that can disrupt the paper-based distribution model of current newspapers. Currently, this sector looks classically disruptive because the quality and relevancy is not very advanced. I’m sure many people will scoff at it. But disruptive technologies being disruptive will soon exceed expectations and become good enough. I’m sure incorporating some kind of evolutionary/learning algo could help it in this aspect.

    Maybe in a few years, having your own automatic newspaper will be as trendy as having your own blog.”

    http://www.justinlee.name/2006.....newspaper/

  8. Sarah B

    March 16th, 2006 at 7:45 pm

    Is anyone worried about news filtering tech?

    Check this 8 min video out…
    http://www.broom.org/epic/

  9. Christian Donner

    May 2nd, 2006 at 9:09 am

    Interesting, today is 5/2, but I can’t seem to get to http://www.newroo.com/. What happened, did they get crunched?

  10. mathiastck

    March 9th, 2007 at 3:10 pm

    So what do yall think of MySpace news?

    http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-6166033.html

  11. thegoogleguy

    March 9th, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    Check out teenwag

    Teenwag

  12. Larry Cully

    March 12th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

    MySpace News? No bet, I’ll keep using http://www.CavengerNews.com

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