Kareem

I appreciate the “watch” list letting you watch anything. People, tags, sections, anything on the site can effectively be “watched”.

Oh, I also posted a little review on my site, though it is not nearly as in depth as the ones listed above.

The reason for this comparison: Recently, my girlfriend and I found ourselves labeled as living in caves. Specifically, we found that 12 of 13 miners had passed away in a collapsed mine (days after the story broke). We quickly jumped to Newsvine as our first source of news and found bits and pieces, but no way of understanding the hype around the most recent story (people were quite upset at the news – of course I would be too if 12 people had died and I knew them – but why were people so pissed?). Not finding any good organization [a way to track backwards in time of the news], I switched to Google News while Justine switched to CNN. Google news gave me quite a bit of information, however difficult it was to also organize. CNN on the other hand included all stories in chronological order, with references and even video.

So, back to my comparison: Is Newsvine less of a place to FIND news as it is a place to CONTRIBUTE to news? If so, have you added a new task (visit newsvine.com) to the daily list of URLS and habits that an Internet user practices? With Google News, I may not be able to contribute to the news engine itself, or add my own contributions (perhaps that means Newsvine isn’t for me?), but I can get the news – quickly – that I’m looking for from a vast source list.

Like I said, I hope to turn this into a full editorial, but time has been short – so short I’ve stopped writing two or three times to jump on other jobs just while posting this message.

Good luck with Newsvine – I can certainly see it’s value. For my own sake, I’m still trying to come to terms with how it will fit my daily routine. Daily routine has become a mantra for my project and I’ve found it to be a very valuable measure.

I’ve also been pretty damn impressed with the speed which you guys make changes, fix bugs, and answer support questions. And its very refreshing to see a CEO that gets his hands dirty with coding / designing / debugging. I know of many CEOs of EVEN SMALLER companies that ONLY deal with business-related concerns such as meetings, etc.

All across the board I’ve been wowed by Newsvine. I expect to see the site explode over the next few months, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to have witnessed the genesis of this thing.

Oh yeah and uh, nice work! Brilliant! Looks great! Wow that not my dad’s news source! w00t!

Well, good job with Newsvines!

If so, assuming $0.01 per view with 1 million main page hits per day would generate about $3.6 million in revenue per year.

But a more realistic traffic report about be 500,000 main page view per day bring down yearly revenue to ~$1.6 million. That doesn’t seem to be a lot of money when you have a staff of approx. 10 people and haven’t considered cost of hardware etc.

Also, the cost of hardware is extremely low. The only two components that turned out to be pretty expensive were the SQL Server license and the load balancer.

I would also be extremely disappointed if we were only averaging a million page views a day after several months.

Additionally, let me just say that although this sounds non-capitalist, the aim of Newsvine isn’t to make a ton of money right now. It’s to get to break-even or a small profit and keep growing the user base. By keeping overhead as low as possible, we hope to achieve this in fairly short order.