KeepMedia New Features
April 6th, 2004KeepMedia, “a premium content service, delivering current and archived articles from 140+ popular magazines and newspapers in one convenient location” has launched 3 new services, according to EContent magazine.
1) KeepMedia Tracker - “KeepMedia Tracker is a personalized service that allows users to customize email alerts across magazine and newspaper titles. KeepMedia Tracker is intended to enable readers to follow recent coverage of specific subjects, people, places, or companies via email notifications from KeepMedia. When articles that match their interests become available at KeepMedia, readers are notified once daily—or as often as new articles become available. KeepMedia Tracker is integrated across KeepMedia.com so that users can create alerts directly from article pages. A “Track This Article” button is located next to each article on KeepMedia.com. Each user can track an unlimited number of articles and alerts can be turned on or off at any time.” - As far as I can tell, this is not a free service, but I could be wrong.
2) RSS Feeds - “KeepMedia also announced its first two RSS feeds: KeepMedia Featured News and KeepMedia Political News (to be launched shortly). Both feeds update daily, highlighting recent and archived articles from KeepMedia’s digital library of magazine and newspaper articles. For example, the KeepMedia Political News RSS feed brings together coverage from political publications, including The Atlantic, US News & World Report, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com, Mother Jones, Reason, USA Today, and more.” - As far as I can tell, this is a free service, with links to full-text articles. One suggestion would be to allow users to create their own feeds based on keywords.
3) Keep Media Topics Pages - “KeepMedia customers can browse collections of articles built around popular search terms and timely news issues like Election 2004, gay marriage, reality TV, cloning, and the Kobe Bryant trial.” - It looks like the content for the current day is free.
I haven’t used any of these products (including the feed, but I’m subscribing to it to see what the content looks like), so I’m just being the messenger here. I’ll have to play around with it more. No time to do that now.