Seattle Times Profiles CommonMedia
Aug 16th, 2005 by Jon Stahl
The Seattle Times’ Kristi Helm offers a nice profile of CommonMedia and its founder, my friend, Jeff Reifman.
What it does: CommonMedia’s collection of Web sites acts as a platform to distribute free music and video for download, plus an online newspaper whose front page is determined by story selections of readers.
Of particular note is CommonTimes, which is news aggregator powered by its users. It’s full of all that Web 2.0 goodness that early adopters love, including Tags, RSS Feeds, Greasemonkey scripts, social networking and more.
Future: Reifman sees the Common Times model as a worthy challenger to Google News because it takes Web news a step further through the use of tags and reader selection. His site has had 2 million page views so far this year.
I recently wrote about CommonTimes in ONEList, too.
