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@jglide relax. I think Jon is going to get his in the next few news cycles. (Read More)
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Submitted by Socialnetwork
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The publicly listed XING AG announces today it has purchased New York-based socialmedian Inc., a leading innovator in the social news industry. The socialmedian solution enables people to get the news filtered by their social networks. Socialmedian debuted in 2008 and has rapidly grown a highly engaged user-base. (Read More)
Dec 19, 2008
: Congratulations gentlemen! Great to have some good news that makes perfect sense! Looking forward to good things to come.
Dec 19, 2008
: @jasongoldberg - Congrats. I never much liked XING, used it on and off for a few years. So what is next on your project list?
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The Blog
Over the last year I have gone from a complete sceptic to a vocal advocate of the fast growing micro-blogging service, Twitter. The reason for this conversion is directly related to how I have seen the Twitter service evolve from a distracting playground for narcissism to a powerful and authentic source of crowd-sourced ne (Read More)
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CNN
With the top U.S. automakers in economic survival mode, the mantra, "Buy American," is a frequent cry among those trying to save jobs at home.
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Mashable!
Google has announced that its Chrome browser is now out of beta – an unusually quick transition for Google considering that Gmail still bears the “Beta” tag, 4+ years after its launch. In the announcement, Google claims “more than 10 million active users around the Globe,” a believable number considering the roughly 1-3 pe (Read More)
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Submitted by Louisgray
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Today Mark Ramskill (@ramskill) from SubHub, takes a look at some of the steps that new Twitter users can go through to get going.Twitter, having been quickly adopted initially by key influencers, has grown into a mass-market communication tool, with millions of users.If you’re publishing content, undertaking online marketi (Read More)
Dec 10, 2008
: @jasongoldberg, @alpesh, @iamdb a nice article to start with. Though Iam not a newbie, I haven't used it extensively. It would be great to hear from you how you use twitter to its potent.
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Submitted by Normansm:
2008 has been both an exciting year and a very trying year for the world of Web innovation.When the year kicked off, we were still in the middle of Web 2.0 fever. We were just two months removed from Microsoft having invested $240 million in Facebook at a stratospheric $15 billion. In the first week of January, Yahoo! CEO J (Read More)
Dec 10, 2008
: Wow! We're honored and flattered :-)Here's a summary of the top 4. @louisgray writes: 1) Summize (Twitter Search) Search is still king, and real-time search is having a huge impact on the way people find news, share ideas, and see trends. Summize built its business around being a search engine for Twitter, and soon became more stable, and theoretically, more useful, than Twitter itself. The Twitter team, in desperate need for more engineering help, acquired the company and absorbed into the microblogging service. Expected Exit: Acquired - Already Complete Twitter's acquisition of Summize was a smart move, considering how real-time search is becoming critical in times of breaking news. Many, including myself, are turning to Twitter search instead of Google, Yahoo! and the traditional news wires to hear reports from people on the ground, unfiltered. 2) Socialmedian While many different sites have conquered the online activities aggregation space, Socialmedian went about the process in a different way than all the others, letting people not only follow friends and pipe in their shared content from a wide variety of 3rd party sites, but organized it in terms of categories. The category feature was so successful, CEO Jason Goldberg has been able to showcase specific events, including the 2008 election, and the financial crisis, and make Socialmedian a go to site to interact with "newsmakers". The site, starting from scratch in the Spring, has risen up to challenge FriendFeed, Digg and other sites for social news - and continues to grow at a rapid clip. Expected Exit: Acquisition by First Quarter of 2009 With Goldberg and team having raised so little capital to get the product off the ground, and having kept costs very low, with the development team in India, the bootstrapped Socialmedian looks to be a ripe target for an acquisition, in my opinion. Without strong revenues and the public markets the way they are, Socialmedian would be smart to find a strong content or media partner, to join forces and enable the service to continue its growth. 3) BackType Technorati and Google Blog Search, as well as many other directories and search engines have typically focused on the blog as the central nervous system for their offering. But as many would agree, it is the comments and conversation, no matter where they are, that have real meaning to blog authors and participants. While everyone was busy trying to see who could land on the Techmeme leaderboard or break new ceilings in Technorati Authority, BackType debuted a site that tracks comments by individual, lets you follow individual commenters across a wide variety of sites, be alerted when comments with keywords take place, and see charts that display keywords' momentum. Expected Exit: Acquisition in Second Half of 2009 The BackType founders are working together on their second startup, having abandoned the first when it didn't gain traction. While BackType doesn't yet have an amazing market presence, they have forged a unique foothold that so far looks unchallenged. With any luck, I would expect the BackType team to deliver more enterprise-capable brand and identity management tools that would enable the service to gain revenue and exposure, letting the service to remain independent through the majority of 2009 before finding a place within WordPress, Six Apart, Google or Twitter. 4) TweetDeck TweetDeck isn't a Web service, but this Adobe AIR application introduced new functions to Twitter usage that changed the game in terms of how people use the service. By introducing a multi-columned app that features groups, integrated search, direct messaging, and replies functionality, many are swearing by TweetDeck, and it looks like it may soon overtake Twhirl as the most popular Twitter application. Busy Twitter addicts including Guy Kawasaki swear by it. Expected Exit: Remaining Independent through end of 2009 Iain Dodsworth is continuing to upgrade the product, and it's widely rumored he may soon integrate multi-account support, as well as integration with additional services, outside of Twitter. If he can get enough people to donate or pay for the application, there's no question he could make a full-time living from the resulting revenue. The question is, will people who expect a free service to have 100% uptime spring for the app that gets them there? 
Dec 15, 2008
: Excellent, and I love this site, Jason. You and your team have done a superb job here with this. I've been in and out of many sites on the web but find this and (and Facebook) my only two daily routine sites.....well, and email.
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The Guardian
At a high-level academic conference on global warming at Exeter University this summer, climate scientist Kevin Anderson stood before his expert audience and contemplated a strange feeling. He wanted to be wrong. Many of those in the room who knew what he was about to say felt the same. His conclusions had already caused a (Read More)
Dec 10, 2008
: I'm all for skepticism. It's a healthy attitude. But the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence is that climate change is real, something is happening, and it's almost certainly man made. Me, I'm deeply skeptical of the groups trying to deny this since they all seem to have a major vested interest in maintaining the status quo and doing nothing. Unfortunately it's an emotive subject with the world's economy at stake. Which is not a good environment for practicing the scientific method of looping round measure - hypothesis - test - adjust. This normally gets de-railed by personal scientific reputation. Now its getting de-railed by hugely influential lobbyists and governments.
Dec 10, 2008
: Take a core sample from almost anywhere in the world. Study the chemical composition of the soils from the different periods, all the way from the distant path through to the emergence of man and you WILL see a marked and pronounced SPIKE in carbon, as well as a variety of other chemicals.Each period in human history is marked by the presence of a particular metal. During the Roman period, it was lead. During the Iron age, I'll leave you to guess. We have changed this planet simply by getting on with our lives. Fact... 64
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Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Anthony Ha at Venturebeat reported on Friday that Socialmedian has left the beta stage (whatever that means). Ha says it's an important milestone for the company. Ha went on to note, "I'm not seeing anything that will tempt me away from social messaging/sharing sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, or the sharing option within (Read More)
Dec 08, 2008
: This is an example of a reviewer not taking the time to erly test what they are reviewing. He's entitled to his opinion's but there is information in here that's inaccurate. I'll leave him a comment on his site when I get home tonight
Dec 10, 2008
: @michaelfidler Indeed! I'm sure there's a disconnect here! But, I simply cannot parse his flamepost, his problem, his defensiveness, and his lazy generalizing. I won't have it! And, I'm sure I'll forget all about it in a few weeks.
Dec 11, 2008
: @jasongoldberg We got your back ... without prompting! I agree with @reechard, @centernetworks still refuses to reply when he was asked directly by me to explain despite complaining that no one asked! Seems that it must only be flamebait. It is unfortunate because I am turned away from CN now.
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