Earn Money from Custom PopURLs Clone: NewsBeet

Here at Mashable, we often see incoming news arriving in our inbox as undulating waves of particular topics. The general trend is that once we cover one segment, others that are doing similar projects send in their news, or others go out and create a new site that does something similar as well.

The result is a wave of coverage that discusses the same type of site, and this week it's undoubtedly news aggregators for simplified consumption. The current attitude of early adopter disdain is a result of sites like Popurls and Alltop, that appear to have little meaning to those of use that readily build up our own RSS collection, and know of various methods for consuming regularly updated content that's spread across the web.

For the rest of the world, such services provide a time-saving easy button that limits the knowledge requirements for searching, aggregating and consuming web content. From Surchur to Addict-o-matic (and even a few we decided not to cover), the going trend of easy news aggregators is only getting stronger.

The latest to join the bunch: NewsBeet. I'll just go straight to the differentiating factors, because that's really all we care about at this point.

Personal Accounts and the Ability to Create your own NewsBeet

A newsbeet is a collection of RSS feeds that cover topics in which you're interested. Give NewsBeet the RSS feed, and NewsBeet does the rest—images, videos, related news, shopping items, etc. The result is an aggregate look at the various components of a given topic of interest, that spans multimedia.

Earn Money

In creating newsbeets, you can provide your AdSense and Shopping.com affiliate info in order to earn ad revenue from clicks on your newsbeets. You promote your newsbeet channel, and NewsBeet gets increased traffic without anyone doing any really hard work.

That being said, Newsbeet has taken features from startup pages like Netvibes, automated marketing methods like Squidoo, and SEO like Chickipedia in order to provide a one-stop shop for search content. The downside to this sort of automation is that the creators of the newsbeets have no control over the additional content that NewsBeet is pulling in.

For example, the newsbeet I created for Kristen Nicole pulled up related Flickr images, but videos that have nothing to do with me. And thanks to a certain prostitute who's real name happens to be Kristen, the ads on my newsbeet revolve around Ashlee Dupre and Playboy (thanks, Google AdSense).

And until Newsbeet finds integrated ways in which to spread its aggregated news content across startpages, widgets, and social networks, NewsBeet still remains a bit of a silo when it comes to the consumption and spreading of news content.