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Dec 19, 2008
That's great for you and socialmedian. Congratulations and good luck. I've begun work on a new social media blog set to launch in the beginning of the new year but now I find myself itching to write about this news.
Dec 19, 2008
@jasongoldberg @socialmediangal @ketan @sharief @sumantht @jeevan @alpesh @ajay @sunil @bala @Scottwheaton All your hard work has paid off, and they could not have a more talented group of individuals joining there team! Jason your new position sounds perfect for you! You must be very happy. Congrats again!
Dec 19, 2008
Congrats to all. I'm not that happy, anyway. When a startup like SocialMedian is acquired, I'm always a bit afraid that something can go in the wrong way...
Dec 19, 2008
i blogged this a few minutes back http://facereviews.com/2008/12/19/social-median-aquired-by-xing-of-germany/
Dec 19, 2008
That's great news for Jason and for the Social networking community, I am an Ambassador at XING. They are one of the most well equipped of all the social and business networking sites. They even hold live business events and social events regionally all over the world, parties and professional training events. If you don't know about them you can find out more by checking out openBC it's where they originated. They are already in the top 1000 sites globally.
Dec 19, 2008
In some ways I'm sad yet I'm sure its the right thing to do. Socialmedian has become a friend who I now have to share with the big boys! But its the way forward so congratulations. I hope XING will take good care of you and allow you to flourish.
Dec 19, 2008
@rumford the TechCrunch story and the PaidContent Story have the public details.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/19/european-business-social-network-xing-acquires-socialmedian/ http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-social-news-startup-socialmedian-acquired-by-germanys-biz-socal-net-xin/
Dec 19, 2008
@michaelfidler thanks! And thanks to everyone for your well wishes.
@martinrstone you will only see more and better from socialmedian, i promise. 
Dec 19, 2008
I was right about you guys when I tipped you for being 'big' in May http://thenextweb.com/2008/05/08/6-upcoming-tools-to-share-the-highest-waves-in-web-surfing/. Well done. Please check your inbox Jason. ;-)
Dec 19, 2008
@jasongoldberg and the rest of the socialmedian team, a hearty congratulations to all of you. This is a well deserved reward.
Dec 19, 2008
@jasongoldberg Congrats! You did this just to mess with @louisgray 's prediction, right? :) I hope this acquisition does not result in us losing your leadership and participation here.
Dec 19, 2008
Thanks for the post-acquisition interview, Jason.
Now live at http://thenextweb.com/2008/12/19/interview-with-jason-goldberg-of-socialmedian-just-acquired-by-xing/ 
Dec 19, 2008
@jasongoldberg Simply amazing! In an era where many are floundering in cyberspace, Jason and the s|m staff have proven that it can still be done and that it can be done well, without whales or hourly outage alerts.
Dec 19, 2008
haha, Xing is probably one of the very few social networks I don't have an account on (yet).
Dec 19, 2008
To avoid overusing the word today, I'll say I'm impressed and amazed and, yes, a bit envious if you end up as a regular on CO74 EWR-HAM :) Congratulations, too, to the development team behind the scenes!
Dec 19, 2008
here are a few of my thoughts on the acquisition. Looking forward to watching how things evolve. Best of luck to the S|M team and Xing!
http://cli.gs/Ae9UN6 
Dec 19, 2008
Hi Jason,
as a Hamburg homie I´d like to welcome you in our beatiful city. It is one of the best places to be in Germany. I´m looking forward to meet you maybe at one of the next OpenCoffee Club Meetups - or one of the many other great networking events. All the best Tobias (of www.hamburg-startups.de) 
Dec 19, 2008
Congratulations! That's fantastic. I can't wait to see what you have in store for 2009. All the best for SM & Xing in the new year!
Dec 19, 2008
@jasongoldberg
YEAH!!! Huge Congrats to you and the team on the sale of your wildly popular, explosive growth start-up company "Social | Median" to XING for $7.5million big ones!! I am proud to have been an early adopter and supporter of your fabulous product. Really enjoyed watching you craft it into one of the most robust social networking sites on the web... Read More that delivers aggregated news filtered by one's friends (really novel idea and cool UIX). You are the most zealous, passionate, productive and inspiring Entrepreneurial CEO I've met in a long while. I am very impressed with your seriously efficient burn rate (wow!) too Simple put: Jason, You Rock! :) P.S. Thanks for sending me the Social |Median t-shirt back in July when you launched! Congrats on getting to move and further expand your company in Hamburg, Germany too! 
Dec 20, 2008
Well that was quick! I am quite amazed that these business models work so well and are so enticing. All of us find some reason to like the user interface of this site (what people clip-and-comment), then start finding articles in the cloud and tagging them here. That creates traffic here -- and it is legal. Take a look at sites like breakingnews.com where they, themselves do the scraping, and the big media companies gun for them. How do these kinds of companies soar? From a legal standpoint, is there no copyright infringement happening? If not, this seems almost too good to be true as a build-and-flip model, at least to Xing's competitors at this point... thoughts, everyone? (oh, congrats Jason and your team)
Dec 20, 2008
Cheers!!!!! @michaelfidler, Thank you very much.Its all your feedback and encouragement every time, which made this possible. We need same sort of immediate feedback from you for all our features. Thanks again. :)
Dec 20, 2008
@jasongoldberg Congratulation to you and the Socialmedian team. Job well done!! Looking forward to what you and XING have in store for us in 2009 :)
Dec 20, 2008
@vincenzorisi Yes', I'm agree, and I don't like too much the way XING works, beucase I can see a different format on the future for Social Median, as XING, divided in free, and almost useless accounts, and premiun services you've got to pay for.
Dec 21, 2008
@euskir Give us a shot and a bit of time to show you what Xing + socialmedian can become.
Dec 21, 2008
@jasongoldberg - it'll be interesting to see how the relationship works.. I've got german friends who swear by Xing, I personally don't think it works so well - perhaps this'll be a good thing? I hope so.. Would be a shame to take all the success of social median, and lose it in the germanness of Xing..
Dec 21, 2008
Congratulations! I think both sides will benefit from this - looking forward to seeing socialmedian features appear on Xing!
Dec 21, 2008
@jasongoldberg of course, I was talking from my perspective, but I know that sometimes that kind of merge bewteen companies can be useful to "correct" the mistakes from the past companies policies, I wish your company and XING find success, for the companies, but also for the users from its services.
Dec 21, 2008
@jasongoldberg great news! So all the Indian team will continue to be in Pune and you'll be at Hamburg? Awesome!
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