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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

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Eric Berlin

You've laid out the playing field exceptionally well, Michael. Two other players (more or less) are Lycos which, like AOL, seems to outsource much of its news to Wired but also aggregates some of its own news content and Ask, which seems to follow the Yahoo model of utilizing a very small group of news (AP) and high-end websites/blogs (Ain't It Cool News).

Do you foresee "winning" and "losing" models for how these companies deliver news and if so, who wins and who loses?

Eric Berlin
Executive Producer
Blogcritics.org

Michael Parekh

Thanks for the comment, Eric. You ask a good question:

>>Do you foresee "winning" and "losing" models for how these companies deliver news and if so, who wins and who loses?<<

Not sure the answer is clear at this early stage, but at the very least the outsourcing model seems to trade expediency today for strategic advantage tomorrow.

In that way it's reminds me of when Yahoo!, AOL AND MSN all outsourced their search functionality to Google because it was viewed as expedient and not a core capability.

If I'm right about the importance of developing your own capability in how your mainstream users CONSUME this content, then Google's approach obviously seems to be the most strategically sound, even though they may make lots of mistakes along the way.

Thanks again,

michael

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