How the future of newspapers could be Tweetdeck

Zachary M. Seward over at Nieman Lab says that Microsoft's vision of the next generation newspaper has an uncanny resemblance to TweetDeck.




And the similarities are striking.It is he says,

taking TweetDeck to its logical conclusion, pulling in RSS feeds, photos, and video from news providers and placing all that content alongside your friends’ status updates on Facebook and Twitter. Think of it as a surging river of news spilling over its banks.

Money for Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck's raising of over $3.2m of venture capital may come as a surprise in the current markets but it surely also illustrates the power of the new medium which has an estimated 20 per cent share of twitter traffic.

The launch last week of its I phone app will give it a major competitive advantage on that platform.

Perhaps though the crunch question as Mark Evans says is

It will also be interesting to see if Tweetdeck can come up with a way to monetize its software; perhaps creating white-label versions for businesses.

Tweetdeck is more than an aggregator says founder

Iain Dodsworth,the founder of Tweetdeck gives an interview to the folks at Paid Content and sees the device's

business model not just as a real-time tweet aggregator but of the wider web.

He is relying on its continued growth of users to

find the revenue streams that are small now but have potential to scale

but is not keen on advertising.

Personally I hate that, it’s awful. A lot of people have said ‘just put a big banner ad at the top, you’ve got a great big gap there…’ but that’s horrible for the users… We’d end up with a userbase of 10 people and you can’t monetise that.