Comments on: What’s New Today: Wink, Old News, et cetera http://gigaom.com/2006/09/06/whats-new-today-wink-old-news-et-cetera/ Mon, 20 May 2013 03:59:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter Secor http://gigaom.com/2006/09/06/whats-new-today-wink-old-news-et-cetera/#comment-123620 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:35:48 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/whats-new-today-wink-old-news-et-cetera/#comment-123620 I’ve been using the Dovetail service for a bit and have had a pretty good experience with it. The video quality is good both technically and artistically with a very diverse content base (I like “Maximum Wage”). I’ve used it on both Windows and Mac (need Flip4Mac which is a free and quick installation that allows Quicktime to play .wmv files). It doesn’t seem to kill bandwidth as it uses a throttled Bittorrent client. My main request now is that I want more content!

]]> By: mohole http://gigaom.com/2006/09/06/whats-new-today-wink-old-news-et-cetera/#comment-123619 Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:37:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/whats-new-today-wink-old-news-et-cetera/#comment-123619 Congoo is cool and useful for me right now and I think if google is thinking along the lines that by showing publishers (even the book publishers through their book project) how much traffic they are holding back because of the subscription model then these publishers will end up giving everyone free access anyway and move on to better business models.. google has the size and clout to make that happen.. till that happens we can use Congoo and also cheer for Google..

]]> By: Darby Ward http://gigaom.com/2006/09/06/whats-new-today-wink-old-news-et-cetera/#comment-123618 Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:02:29 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/whats-new-today-wink-old-news-et-cetera/#comment-123618 I tried the congoo search and it works well, here’s a search I did for Steve Irwin and it shows several premium articles including an Obit from FT.com which is premium.

http://www.congoo.com/web.aspx?query=steve+irwin

So I understand what the guy means when he says access, this software actually gets you in to the article without paying.

]]> By: Rafael Cosentino http://gigaom.com/2006/09/06/whats-new-today-wink-old-news-et-cetera/#comment-123617 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:12:34 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/whats-new-today-wink-old-news-et-cetera/#comment-123617 Liz,

We appreciate the Congoo mention because as we all know, any PR is good PR. There is a major difference between Google’s News Archive service and Congoo’s service. Google’s News service does NOT provide ANY free access to the articles. Congoo does provide free access to millions of articles. Hopefully people will use Google’s new service and see more links to content they want to access but cannot without using a credit card. This makes Congoo’s service that much more attractive and is the reason why over 10,000 people a day now download the Congoo’s Netpass. Also, Congoo’s revenues do not depend on people buying content, we realize revenue through sponsored links, just like Google. I just wanted to define those nuances more clearly for you and your readers.

Best Regards,

Rafael Cosentino
VP Business Development
Congoo

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