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Social Bookmarker Snipitron Acquires Bookmarking Tool OnlyWire - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 16 Jul 2008 10:37 AM PST

Social bookmarking isn’t a space you hear so much about these, at least compared to a couple years ago. It looks like a pair of lesser known players are getting…

Future US Buys News Aggregation Service Ballhype - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 15 Jul 2008 12:13 PM PST

Future US, the once-parent of Business 2.0 and part of Future plc (LSE: FUTR), the UK based trade media company, has bought out BallHype, a Belmont, CA-based owner of basketball…

Social News Site Socialmedian Gets Funding From Crovitz, Hundt and Others - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 10 Jul 2008 11:40 AM PST

Socialmedian, the social news site started by former Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg, has been nurturing its seed round into a sapling for a while and now added more investors, or…

Cit-J Site NowPublic Buy’s Guy Kawasaki’s Truemors; Kawasaki To Chair Advisory Board - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Jul 2008 07:35 AM PST

This one kinda comes out of left field, though in a way it makes perfect sense… NowPublic, the heavily funded citizen journalism startup, has acquired Truemors, Guy Kawasaki’s user-gen gossip…

Google News: Going Only So Far With An Algorithm - 7 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 23 Jun 2008 08:41 PM PST

So this NYT piece discovers, writing a detailed story about the non-spectacular growth of Google News, the news search site from Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Comparing it to hosted or original…

First Look: TimesPeople Adds Social Layer To NYTimes.com - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 18 Jun 2008 07:59 PM PST

I’ve spent some time off and on today with the latest tool from NYTimes.com: TimesPeople, a Firefox add-on that functions as a combo recommendation engine and low-frills social network. The…

AP Wants Change In Blog Excerpting, Just Not Sure What - 5 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 16 Jun 2008 08:41 AM PST

The AP is spoiling for a fight it can’t win. It started last week when the news organization took exception with the linking and excerpting practices at the Drudge Retort…

Social Bookmarker Mister Wong Acquires Lifestream.fm - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 05 May 2008 11:00 AM PST

Mister Wong, a social bookmarking start-up based in Germany, has acquired Lifestream.fm, a service that lets users aggregate their web activity from various social networking services. The news was confirmed…

Video News Site Mediascrape Raises $3.16 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 21 Apr 2008 12:37 PM PST

Mediascrape, a site that aggregates news video, has raised C$3.2 million (US$3.16 million) from unidentified investors. The Montreal-based company aggregates video from a variety of sources, including BBC and CBC,…

AOL Buys News-Blog Contextual Search Firm Sphere - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Apr 2008 09:32 PM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) has bought out Sphere, a blog and news contextual display service, for an undisclosed amount. The startup operates in a crowded contextual content display space with competition…

Loomia Gets $5 Million Dollar First Round For Content Recommendation - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 02 Apr 2008 06:38 AM PST

Loomia, the maker of the SeenThis app for social content discovery, has raised a $5 million first round from Asset Management Company, as well as strategic investors Peacock Equity (GE-NBC),…

News Aggregation Service Publish2 Gets $2.75 Million Funding - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 31 Mar 2008 05:00 AM PST

Publish2, an as-yet unlaunched news aggregation service aimed for journalists and media companies, has received $2.75 million in its first round of funding from Velocity Interactive Group, the very-prolific VC…

ShareThis Raises $15 Million For Content Sharing - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 14 Mar 2008 11:11 AM PST

SF-based ShareThis, a provider of tools to help users easily share content, has raised a $15 million second round from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The funding brings its total to $21…

WaPo Interactive Invests In Social News Firm SocialMedian - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 12 Mar 2008 05:57 PM PST

Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the digital media arm of WaPo has made an early-stage investment in SocialMedian, the yet-to-launch social news company/site founded by Jason Goldberg, former chief of Web 2.0 jobs…

Yahoo Plays Catch Up On All Fronts: Buzz=Digg; Open Search=Google/Ask Search - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 25 Feb 2008 11:08 PM PST

We have seen it so many times: any new service from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), however good or different it may be from others in functionalities, will never be able to…

Social News Site Mixx Adds $2 Million From Intersouth - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 25 Feb 2008 11:19 AM PST

McLean, VA-based Mixx, a Digg-like social news site, has raised an additional $2 million from past investor Intersouth Partners. In addition to its first raise last October, the company has…

CNN’s Cit-J Video Site iReport Launches - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 13 Feb 2008 12:46 PM PST

As we reported earlier this week, CNN’s ambitious citizen journalism site iReport.com has launched today. Less prominent CNN branding, which makes it interesting because of CNN/Turner’s efforts to develop it…

CNN Readies All Citizen Journalism News Site iReport - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 11 Feb 2008 10:28 AM PST

CNN, owned by Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is preparing to unveil a news site made up entirely of news gathered by users, Mediaweek reports. An offshoot of its iReport citizen…

Ex-Jobster Chief Raises Sub-$1 Million Seed Round For Social News Startup - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 07 Feb 2008 09:51 AM PST

Jason Goldberg, former chief of web 2.0 jobs site Jobster.com, has raised a sub-$1 million seed round from unidentified backers for a new social news site. The raise was first…

Digg Uprising Highlights Difficulty In Valuing A Community - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 25 Jan 2008 05:00 PM PST

This week, social news site Digg and its community got a lesson on Kenneth Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, which basically states that no voting system can perfectly reflect the preferences of…

News Search And Services Firm Inform Gets $15 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 23 Jan 2008 10:41 AM PST

Inform Technologies, the New York City-based news search and publisher services company, has raised a biggish $15 million third round. The round was done by Spark Capital, which has been…

User Comments And The Art Of Moderation - 4 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 18 Jan 2008 08:25 AM PST

With the ever-growing popularity of social media, major media sites have come to understand the importance of audience participation. MediaShift’s Mark Glaser writes about the problem traditional media sites have…

Digging on Digg: Early Days on A Deal - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Jan 2008 10:06 AM PST

Over the holidays, the rumors about the sale of Digg, the social news site, cropped up again, like many times before. Only this time, it has hired Allen & Co…

LA Times Invests In Social News Site Mixx - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 04 Dec 2007 11:26 AM PST

Mixx, a social news startup from McLean, VA which announced its first round funding in October, has now added an interesting strategic investor: Los Angeles Times, part of the the…

AFP Buys Stake In Cit-J Platform Scooplive, Offers To Media As White Label - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 Nov 2007 07:47 AM PST

Newswire Agence France Press (AFP) has bought a minority stake in Scooplive, a French citizen journalism portal that gives contributors commission on contributions sold to news media. The size of…