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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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Social media mimics real relationships — in many cases. Would you do the following within real face-to-face relationships?. (Read More)
Dec 13, 2008
: Well, I like tje article and I am here for peaceful networking.I view yesterday on LI a pps by a dutchman that I liked particularly one of his slides: To own is about building your ego. Sharing is about building a Network. To share means that what is good for you, can be good for others. Why keep it to yourself! The message is important. The messenger should not be a messiah why not? 20
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Submitted by Magitam
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In one of my "couldn't be more wrong" predictions for the world of tech in 2008, I predicted that Twitter would move away from just offering text updates on its microblogging site, and would instead expand to possibly let users add pictures or even video, giving a better answer to "what are you doing?". Instead 2008 has bee (Read More)
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Lifehacker
Dear free software developers: Before we American nerds sit down to our turkey and mashed potatoes today, know that your creations are at the top of the list of things we're most thankful for. Whether you're an indie hacker putting out the occasional script or an employee at a giant internet company building out a webapp w (Read More)
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Submitted by Magitam
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Twitter is emerging as a major force in breaking news. But some people disagree.Today we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to the world well before mainstream media even knew something was happening. Mathew Ingram points out previous examples of Twitter users breaking (Read More)
Nov 30, 2008
: That is the key that we have more primary witnesses to events. First hand history is always better in the long run than secondary and even tertiary sources or channels of information. As someone else mentioned it is brand new reporting territory and it is difficult to fact check tweets as well as there should be some sop's set up for how to use the channels in time of an emergency. So folks make situations potentially worse. Still twitter and Friendfeed are where I turned.
Udi,
Nov 30, 2008
: twitter is a news source like conversations in the street are a news source. there is some value to verification of sources, to gathering information from news sources, to filtering out repetition and to presenting the news in a coherent fashion. these things twitter doesn't do but that is not to say it has no news value. as somewhere to trawl for raw data in the case of a breaking story, it may be valuable.
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FanHouse
Filed under: Oklahoma, Texas, Big 12, General CFB InsanityAll too often when talking about a weekend full of upsets -- and did we ever have some upsets in college football -- the talk revolves around the losers. Thing is, the nature of losing is that voids are created, voids which must be filled by someone. We can argue jus (Read More)
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FanHouse
Filed under: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon State, USC, Pac 10, FanHouse TVThe College Football Songbook is a weekly feature in which we'll be making as much fun as humanly possible of the most embarrassing moments in college football. Through words, music, and related video we'll leave a lasting memory impl (Read More)
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Crooks and Liars
For pastors to endorse McCain is kind of hilarious because they hate him almost as much as liberals do, but something should be done about this.Defying a federal law that prohibits U.S. clergy from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, an evangelical Christian minister told his congregation Sunday that voting for (Read More)
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Submitted by Robdiana
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The NY Times is often considered the US newspaper of record, and it lives up to its reputation with an excellent article in today’s Sunday NY Times Magazine about the ambient awareness enabled by Facebook status updates, Twitter and other microblogging tools. Even readers familiar with both popular microblogging tools and t (Read More)
Sep 08, 2008
: Insightful and it does dwell into the way humans are or would like to feel connected in more ways than one and now the tools are here.
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Times Online
The Page is reporting that the McCain campaign has acknowledged that 17-year-old Bristol Palin, daughter of Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, is pregnant.Reuters reports that Bristol and the father of her child plan to marry.It has been widely noted that Palin opposes both birth control pills and condoms, even between (Read More)
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Yardbarker: College Football
Week 1 is nearly complete and the top 25 rankings have changed. Five new teams arrived into the rankings after some impressive victories and upsets. Who is too high? Who is too low? Who is missing from the poll? Read your favorite team's local newspapers and blogs by clicking on their link. (Read More)
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Crooks and Liars
Barack Obama goes right at the heart of McCain’s campaign strategy and completely destroys it. Download | Play Download | Play The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCai (Read More)
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Yardbarker: College Football
Barking Carnival is a great Texas football site that has received a lot of praise within the college football blogosphere. Click through to see their projections for 2008. With some of the best quarterbacks in the country returning its very possible that the conference will have the most teams in the top 25 at the end of t (Read More)
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Yardbarker: College Football
The wait is over. Tomorrow the 2008 college football season begins. So what better way to get you in the mood than to give you FIO staff writer Dan Mesday's preseason Top 25, picks for All-American teams, and the Top 5 Heisman Hopefuls heading in to the 2008 season?. (Read More)
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Yardbarker: College Football
It starts tonight - the 2008 NCAA Football season. FIO staff writer Dan Mesday previews the first week of action, including Week 1 News & Notes, Top Games & Picks, and more. (Read More)
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