socialmedian: socialmedian is now a public website. beta 7/31/08

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Submitted by Jasongoldberg

Jul 31, 2008

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NEW YORK, New York -- July 31, 2008 -- socialmedian,
http://www.socialmedian.com, a new social news network that is
working on solving the information overload problem, opened its
website to the public today. The public launch follows a four month
invite-only alpha period with more than 4300 participants
from around the world. The socialmedian site is a public beta
and continues to be a work in progress. The company's model is
to ship new features and enhancements every other day in direct
response to user feedback.
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Comments (15)

Jasongoldberg,

Jul 31, 2008

socialmedian is a user-driven website both in the manner in
which it has been developed as well as in the functioning of the
site.

The company released its first code to an early set of alpha
users in March 2008. Users can submit feature requests directly
on the website. More than 350 user-submitted features have
been built and launched on the site during the alpha period.

Jasongoldberg,

Jul 31, 2008

socialmedian's founder, Jason Goldberg, said of the site: "The
name socialmedian itself represents what we believe to be the
next evolution of media; as information becomes more
universally accessible and people socially can create, share, and
discuss it online, what we're witnessing is a massive
democratization of information around the globe as people who
share common interests can instantly become newsmakers for
each other without any regard to political borders or boundaries.
Increasingly, when it comes to news and information, it's no
longer about the have's and have not's, we are all the social
median."