Wednesday, June 18, 2008
New York Times Launches New Social Platform for Times Readers
The New York Times has just launched the public beta of TimesPeople, a social networking platform for visitors to the site who want to share and recommend content. The new program, which only works on the Firefox browser, can be downloaded here.
In addition to sharing within the Times site, the program allows users to push recommendations to Facebook, the iPhone and other platforms.
To find out about TimesPeople, Beet.TV visited the New York Times headquarters in Manhattan for an interview with senior software designers Derek Gottfrid and Nick Thuesen.
Joining us during the visit and handling the interviewing chores was our colleague Caroline "The Social" McCarthy of CNET News.com. Caroline just published her report on TimesPeople.
-- Andy Plesser
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by: Matt RhodesThe New York Times launched a beta version of TimesPeople over the weekend. Its their first step at adding a social layer onto their site - a recommendations service and mini-social network. Its works rather simply:... [Read More]
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Whoa, the jump cuts from wide shots to close ups on the chick were a little jarring. Whoaaaaa Nelly!
Nice. I'm not convinced that NYT readers will want social networking, especially when most people will be responding to the same few stories every day, but it's nice to see the paper innovating on its website. That ad revenue has to come from somewhere.
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