TopTenSources acquires Style Feeder

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1. Pete Cashmore
   

   June 27th, 2006 at 5:20 pm

   Seems like a bizarre combination - any idea how they’re going to realize synergies here?

2. Brian
   

   June 27th, 2006 at 5:57 pm

   It sounds like there is a lot of room for clarification on what this merger means and why do we care so much? Or even better, what will result as the child of this process.

3. Philip Jacob
   

   June 27th, 2006 at 6:28 pm

   (I’m the founder of StyleFeeder)

   Both StyleFeeder and Top 10 Sources have done considerable work in the area of human-assisted search and that’s the main thing that we share in common. The difference you’re seeing between, on the surface, some kind of social shopping application and a directory of blogs is mainly a question of focus. But we are together building technology to provide a set of tools to users interested in exploring large datasets in some innovative ways.

   (Plus Halley promised to buy us Llamas… who could refuse that?)

4. Mike Rundle
   

   June 27th, 2006 at 8:25 pm

   Phillip, I hope you can talk Top Ten Sources out of this practice now that you’re part of the team. Many people I know had their content *fully* republished without anyone asking their consent *first* and I find that extremely troubling. Anybody from Top Ten Sources care to comment about whether you guys are actually emailing people *first* before you take their RSS content en total?

5. Philip Jacob
   

   June 27th, 2006 at 8:56 pm

   No need to talk them out of anything on that front since that kind of activity stopped some time ago. Top 10 Sources only includes full content when it’s allowed by the blog owner. There are actually 5 levels of inclusion that feed owners can specify when they submit their feeds to Top 10 Sources, so there’s a reasonably granular level of control available to those who choose to participate.

6. Halley Suitt
   

   June 28th, 2006 at 4:26 am

   Phil’s got it right there … we’re hypercareful with your content. Meanwhile, Mike, did you sign up for Stylefeeder and try it yet?

   It’s really fun. I want to see what you buy, so go do it.

   BTW, you don’t have to actually buy the stuff, you can use Stylefeeder as a wishlist that RSS publishes to other cool people.

7. Halley Suitt
   

   June 28th, 2006 at 4:29 am

   And one other thing — check out the Stylefeeder widget on my blog (below the blogroll on the left-hand column).

   Did you see that beach ball you toss around — the blue thing — that makes ice cream. How cool is that?!?

   I expect Mike to have it at his next party.

8. Seth Wagoner
   

   June 28th, 2006 at 3:35 pm

   I think the problem Top10 may have is that their name sounds an awful lot like the “best8sites” “best4sites” pure adwords/adsense arbitrarge plays I see so often. I now avoid any URL that looks like that because it’s usually completely devoid of real content. I hate to say it, but they *might* be better off picking another name. I’m probably a little bit ahead of the curve on how annoyed I get by these things, but then I was ahead of the spam-hate curve as well…

9. Renee
   

   November 7th, 2006 at 5:16 pm

   sounds good to me