+ Topix Adds New Features: Top Picks, Polls, and Car Seats
Btw, Topix now also offers browsing for international news by country. Also, you can access local info for Canada entering a Postal Code.

See Also: Topix Mobile? Yes, it’s available. Just enter http://www.topix.net into your mobile browser (auto-detection) or go to http://m.topix.net

See Also: Topix Search
A) Topix search is case sensitive. Example: SAT vs. sat.
B) The interactive graph at the top of a results page clickable and makes finding older content easy.

See Also: Top Blogs Page
“monitors the activity of 25,000 blogs and ranks the stories that bloggers are writing about.”

See Also: Most Popular Top Stories
Ranked by number of commentators.

Note: All Topix pre-built topics and search results have RSS feeds.

+ Google tools to power virtual worlds (via News.com)
Worth noting that two weeks ago, the CIA’s venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, invested in Forterra, a provider of virtual worlds software.
++ See Also: On a somewhat related note, two other companies first invested in by In-Q-Tel and then acquired by Google are Keyhole Corp. (Google Earth) and @Last Software (Sketch-Up) .

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 and is filed under Information Industry, News Search, Search News, Technology and Internet. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.