new idea

[closedbook]

It's in the early stages, but I just wanted to get your opinion on an idea that I've been thinking about. From my experience, start-ups usually contact blogs either by emailing them, or having a PR person send out a release. Blogs usually get the scoop on a story either by tips, by visiting the company's blog, or by reading the story on a 3rd party site.

This web service attempts to make this process easier. It would allow companies to "reverse feed" their stories to the various blogs related to them by selecting categories and uploading the story. These stories would be sent to blogger accounts on the service, where they would essentially pick and choose which stories to blog about. The company would know instantly through the web service when and where their story was published.

The value to companies? No need to send emails en mass and view whether or not their story was published on the blogs. They would also push their story to blogs in the category they don't even know about. The value to blogs is that it makes it easier to sort through the stories and get them straight from the source.

Thanks all for your help, any advice is appreciated.

[Scott Bradley]

Chris is that you? I think you just sent me a facebook message about this!

[closedbook]

Hey Scott!

Yes, it is indeed me. Just trying to get more opinions about the idea. I've found that YE is a great resource for me to share ideas and get feedback. Sorry if I just seemed like I "copied and pasted" the post, it saves me a lot of work.

But yeah, right now in the early research stages and I'm trying to tap into as many information resources as possible to hopefully get a better understanding of the challenges and barriers I may face.

Thanks for viewing!

[Scott Bradley]

Hey Scott!

Yes, it is indeed me. Just trying to get more opinions about the idea. I've found that YE is a great resource for me to share ideas and get feedback. Sorry if I just seemed like I "copied and pasted" the post, it saves me a lot of work.

But yeah, right now in the early research stages and I'm trying to tap into as many information resources as possible to hopefully get a better understanding of the challenges and barriers I may face.

Thanks for viewing!

Lets talk tomorrow. DM me a time on facebook that works for you tomorrow EST time!

Looking forward to chatting!

[HarveyJ]

Seriously, this just sounds like RSS feed to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss
Bloggers subscribe to RSS feeds and then choose what parts of the story they're going to blog about, if any... or simply scrape the feed.