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Social|median: Personalized News Filter - 1000 Invites

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Apr 21, 2008

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Over the past couple of months, Jason Goldberg, who previously founded job search engine Jobster and vacated the CEO role last December to "pursue other early stage ventures," has quietly relaunched his personal blog social|median and transformed it into a collaborative news filtering service. The service is still very rough around the edges and is just weeks into a private alpha test. 1000 ReadWriteWeb readers can gain access to the invite only alpha by going to the sign up page and using "RWW" (without the quotes) as the invite code.

Goldberg has created social|median along with a team of eight fellow founders working out of offices in Pune, India. Goldberg travels to India one week per month and keeps in contact with the team via Skype, Twitter, and Basecamp. "Our model at social|median is to ship fast and iterate faster based on user feedback," he told us in an email. "As such, we shipped our first bit of 'dogfood' code after just 3 weeks of development just a few weeks ago and have been adding to that with nearly daily code releases ever since."

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