Honolulu Civil Beat: Where’s the Marketplace?

In my community, I'd have great local news reporting, great community discussion -- and great Yelp-like functionality, great Open Table-like functionality, great-Angie's List like-functionality, hey, great eBay-like functionality (aka The New Classifieds!). Maybe, that's a wrinkle up Civic ...

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Chronicle Crackdown Prompts Question: Where’s the Bay Area Online Super Startup?

Could the Chronicle indeed go away? Well, don't expect anyone to buy it. The newspaper market is, to use the kind word, illiquid. Frozen solid by two minor problems: 1) the credit meltdown, which will someday ease; 2) no one knows how to hell to value a newspaper company because no one has ...

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Freelance Organizer Helium May Be User-Gen 2.1 for News Sites

Consider it user-gen 2.1. It’s easy to see Helium, whose Marketplace product comes out of within the next week or two, as a website organizing the loose and large gaggle of freelance writers out there. It’s attempting to do that, and that in and of itself is interesting. Even more ...

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