The Next Web Newsletter Archive

Written on 21st January 2009                                                                                                              2 COMMENTS
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

Earlier this year we started sending out a weekly update to our readers. We like the newsletter  because we reach an extra audience and it works like a reminder for people to visit the site or read the RSS feed.

Since a few weeks we also include more content in our newsletter that we don’t publish to the site. This to give our subscribers and readers more incentive to also subscribe to the newsletter.

There are now more than 4000 subscribers and we are growing fast. I wrote here earlier about MailChimp, the solution we use to manage and deliver the newsletter. This weekend they upgraded to a new version of their software which made me discover an easy way to present our readers with an Archive of all the previous newsletter we sent out.

So, today I present to you; our Newsletter Archive!

It is convenient to look up stuff you read about earlier but can’t find now or to send a link to someone if you want to share information but don’t want to forward the newsletter.

archive, mailchimp, newsletter

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The Times makes 200 years of newspapers online available

Written on 13th June 2008                                                                                                              5 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

British quality newspaper The Times have opened up their dusty but valuable archives of the past 200 years by officially launching The Times Archive today. Every newspaper published between 1785 and 1985 has been scanned and made fully searchable through an OCR program.

Nineteen months ago, Times Media’s digital publisher Zach Leonard told Journalism.co.uk that the company was looking at the possibility of building an archive of all its content. Turns out that Leonard wasn’t just trying to gain some goodwill but actually planned on digitalizing the archive. The beta version was launched only last month, so apparently the company has different guidelines than most web start-ups – who often seem to stay in beta mode forever.

For a limited period of time, the whole archive will be free. So enjoy it while you can. Read about the original Live Aid for example, or the Titanic or the assassination of Lincoln.

archive, digitalization, Newspaper, the times

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Yamelo takes you on a music trip down memory lane

Written on 24th February 2008                                                                                                              1 COMMENT
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

A great way to spend this lazy Sunday afternoon is looking up Yamelo and be ready for a music trip down memory lane. This site has collected almost every hit from the sixties and beyond. Just click on a year or search for an artist. Remember your first kiss, school party, rock concert or that first vacation without your parents? All the songs you listened back then, are there.

Yamelo presents the songs as videos, ripped from YouTube. That basically makes it a music video search engine annex directory, with a great interface. Try to look up a song on this page and then compare it with Yamelo, you’ll know what I mean.

I hope the makers of Yamelo will put even more effort in developing the site, and filter out the videos of bad quality. Also, the service lets you relive your greatest memories but wouldn’t it be great if you could also share them? Yamelo would become a beautiful archive of not just music, but also the funny, touching, great and sad stories connected to the melodies.

archive, music, videos, yamelo, youtube

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