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MEDIAdeluge - socialmedian Emerges from Alpha with Social News Network

Submitted by Jasongoldberg

Jul 17, 2008

Summary

socialmedian, which styles itself as a social news network, is slowly emerging from stealth mode. Founded by serial entrepreneur Jason Goldberg and backed by notables, Gordon Crovitz (WSJ), Reed Hundt (FCC), Julius Genachowski, (IAC/ LunchBox Digital), Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive and Allen Morgan (Mayfield Fund); social median’s goal is to help users keep up-to-date on the news AND the newsmakers that matters to them. TheDeal has more on the funding.

Imagine FriendFeed meets Techmeme.

On socialmedian, users set up News Networks (ostensibly mini Techmemes) based on any topic(s) they are interested in and populated with content from the news sources they specify. It’s all fully user-customizable, which means people like “a VC” blogger Fred Wilson can filter news so he can hear from who he is interested in “…like seth godin, jeff jarvis, dave winer, scoble, umair, calacanis, nick carr…” (via tweet). Read the full article

Comments (5)

Jasongoldberg,

Jul 17, 2008

Nice post Christian -- thanks!
Appreciate all the support from everyone during our alpha.

Christiananderson,

Jul 17, 2008

Today, access to information is not the challenge — its all there, online. What has gotten harder is accessing the information you want. For early adopters and those who rely on the web to inform them about news, trends and what their friends are up to, cutting through the clutter can be a real challenge. I think you and your team are on to something potentially really big to help us all cut through the clutter

Netzoo,

Jul 17, 2008

congrats!

Socratoad,

Jul 19, 2008

Everything seems to be perking olong quite nicely.
Many thanks to all involved in this exciting project.

Sarahcrisman,

Jul 20, 2008

I have to say, I was a bit skeptical as to why I would need SocialMedian (if I have Digg and FriendFeed...) but I actually prefer it over Digg as a news aggregator. I'm intrigued to see the community emerging here.