The Guardian
The Financial Times is to embrace user-generated content by launching a forums feature on the Alphaville section of its website that will allow finance professionals to set up their own discussions and commentaries.Named after a bar in Throgmorton Street in London's City that was once a notorious hub of financial chatter, t (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider
You guys asked for more from our conversation with Ron Conway. We're happy to oblige. We didn't tape it, but Ron talks relatively slowly and we type fast. Here's what we have:Ron on the market for angel money: 'I would imagine by early next year, some entrepreneurs will decide to forego the startup route until funding gets (Read More)
Mashable!
If youâre logged into the new Facebook, you might notice a different look to your News Feed this morning. The social network has added filters, allowing you to tab between your friendâs Status Updates, Photos, and Posted Items, while aggregating all of them under a default âTop Storiesâ tab. Additionally, for every item o (Read More)
: Hi all, honestly i was just seeing how Socialmedian ticks it wasnt intended as a spam post. Although it is a new site so that might be news worthy depending on your view point :-)
Interesting that this post has been clipped more that my education posts.
TechCrunch
Tapulous, the company behind Tap Tap Revenge, has announced that the popular iPhone app will hit 1 million installs some time this weekend. The app is the second we’ve heard from to hit the milestone (Facebook reached it last week), and is another testament to the extremely rapid growth some applications have seen on (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
...And Continues To Be Awesome!If you're a Firefox and Google Reader user and you haven't yet installed the Feedly plugin, you're going to want to install it today after you hear this: Feedly has now integrated its own results - that is, links to the relevant posts from your Google Reader - right into your Google search res (Read More)
: Feedly is a service and a Firefox plugin that provides an alternative way to read your feeds. Its magazine-style interface presents the news to you in a more visually appealing way while still keeping it categorized by your own tagging system. As your read news items in Feedly, they're marked as read in Google Reader
Submitted by Scbalazs:
Everyone knows about social media sites like Digg and Reddit, but the fact is, they are incredibly hard to penetrate, and the traffic they offer is often superficial. For many bloggers, niche sites are a refreshing alternative to these behemoths, offering more targeted links and a much smaller base of competition. Read on t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
When I first reviewed Plurk for ReadWriteWeb, I had only been using this new lifestreaming service for a little while. After using it for much longer, I've realized that there is really just one major difference between Twitter and Plurk - but it's that one difference that makes Plurk so much better.This is a guest post by (Read More)
: Is Plurk still alive? I found most people have headed back to Twitter..I just seem to struggle with the way the conversations are 'hidden' unless you prompt them to open...
: Plurk's UI advantage won't save it when pitted against Twitter's community advantage. At least for me, everyone in my geographical area is on Twitter and not Plurk. So, it's a no-brainer.