MyFeedz is another News 2.0 service that aims to filter and prioritize news based on your interests. It's currently in private beta. From the site: myFeedz is a social newspaper. It brings news and blog posts that matter to you in your web browser, b...
NowPublic, the social news site I first reviewed back in January, has raised $1.4 million in an angel round. The company claims to rival Korean phenomenon OhMyNews in terms of traffic, but the Alexa data fails to impress. Meanwhile, rival Newsvine se...
Gnoos, Ben Barren's Aussie blog search engine, launched today. The service allows you to search the entire blogosphere, or limit your search to Australian blogs. The design is neat and the results don't seem too bad at all. The question is: what's th...
VeoTag and Click.TV are two new contenders in the video tagging space. They'll soon be joined by MotionBox, a similar service that offers both deep-tagging and video remixing (ala JumpCut and Eyespot). The idea is to let users tag individual sections...
Vox, SixApart's new blogging service crossed with a social network, rolled out an invite-only beta yesterday (you can still browse the site without an invite). And while the platform itself is very impressive, some are concerned that SixApart will ne...
Tagworld, the feature-rich MySpace alternative, is making some smart moves. Today they released Tagworld Widgets, a service that aims to increase Tagworld's reach by extending the brand into other social networks - in other words, feeding the MySpace...
Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade items, received a small funding round last week. The participants included Flickr founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, Albert Wenger (former president of del.i...
Google just posted a tour of Google Spreadsheets, their new Excel rival. They're also inviting users to test the service on a first-come-first-served basis. It looks blissfully simple, and includes live chat, multi-user editing and import/export func...
It seems like everyone is either moving on or moving up today. Bloglines founder Mark Fletcher just announced that he's leaving Ask/Bloglines to pursue new projects, while Tara "Miss Rogue" Hunt has left Riya and plans to focus on her own company, Pi...
MyNuMo is a marketplace for user-generated mobile content - ringtones, wallpaper and videos. It's a neat idea and they seem to be on the right track. From the site: MyNuMo is an online community that enables it's members to create, show, and sell mob...
Juice Wireless, creators of the moblogging platform JuiceCaster, just raised $4M in a round led by 21Ventures. The company was founded by David Herman, creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange. From the site: JuiceCaster is a product of Juice Wireless...
DatingAnyone helps you track the dating status of people on your MySpace friends list, and presumably catch them on the rebound. When there's a change in your friend's status, you're sent an email alert. The service doesn't log in as you - it simply ...
Panjea is a new social network that aims to pay users for their contributions. Members are paid a percentage of the ad revenue from their pages, as well as earning points for simply using the site. Additionally, you can earn money by selling your mus...
I've no idea whether RightCart will be successful, but the concept is certainly an interesting one. The service is essentially a distributed shopping cart - you can put a widget on your website, blog or social networking profile and sell items direct...
Gusto, a community-based travel service out of Springfield, MO, just raised $3 million in funding from DHST LLC (plus $1 million from Jeff Wasson, the CEO). The site allows users to share travel info with their family and friends - you can add people...
I hate to be negative twice in one day, but I'm not crazy about Magnoto. The service, which launched in February, is a cross between a blogging platform and an ajax start page. They announced a mobile version yesterday, but frankly I'm concerned abou...
Typepad's new partnership with Feedburner is getting a lot of love from the blogosphere. The new setup allows Typepad users to move all their existing subscribers to their Feedburner feed with minimal effort. It's a smart move, and I hope that they'l...
Scrapblog, which launched back in March, aims to combine scrapbooking with blogging (well, duh!). You create pages using the Flash-based Scraplog builder, a tool that lets you position, rotate and resize images, add a background, frame your photos an...
HabboHotel, the popular animated chatroom, is on track to hit sales of $77M this year, according to Danny Rimer of Index Ventures. The site is run by Finnish company Sulake, which was founded in 2000 and employs 250 people. Habbo is broadly similar t...
Umundo is yet another service that's feeding the MySpace beast. After capturing a video clip or picture on your cellphone, you can send it to [email protected]. When you get home, enter your phone number on the site and grab the code to post your vide...
Radar is a new mobile photo sharing application - but unlike its rivals, it's designed for sharing among a select group of friends. When you sign up, you get a unique Radar.net email address to send your images to - you can then invite friends to vie...
Google Video just rolled out a series of new features. The fresh stuff includes a Movers and Shakers list, which allows you to explore popular videos by country. The home page has also been reorganized - there's now a "recently uploaded" section and ...
eBay and Kaboodle have joined forces to create a new service, MyCollectibles, which launches officially on Monday. They've also put up an About Me page for the service on eBay, but this simply links back to the homepage right now. At first glance, th...
Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft to join John Furrier's podcasting startup, PodTech.net. It's been reported that he'll take up the position of "corporate evangelist". Although Silicon Valley Watcher suggests that Scoble was unhappy at Microsoft, Sc...
Two new startups entered the citizen journalism space this week, both of them vying to sell your cellphone photos to big media. Paris-based Scooplive is offering an auction system for cellphone snaps, while Cell Journalist wants to sell celebrity sho...
Digg founder Kevin Rose has confirmed that the social news site will launch new verticals in the next month or so. The expansion has been common knowledge since late 2005, but until now there was no timescale. At the eBay Developers Conference in Las...
30 Boxes, the online calendaring startup, just launched a new ajax start page called Webtop. The service allows you to add links to your favorite web services including Gmail, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Webshots, Meebo and your 30 Boxes calendar. The...
Tripmates, based in Los Angeles, is another new travel community. You can add friends, plan upcoming trips, write a blog, review restaurants, hotels and landmarks and exchange messages with other users. All this information is displayed publicly on a...
It's not just Google that's getting into the video advertising space: VibrantMedia, the makers of IntelliTXT, expanded the service today by launching IntelliTXT Video. IntelliTXT, you might remember, creates those extremely annoying, double-underline...
ScooptWords is a new service that aims to sell your blog content to print media. Scottish startup Scoopt was one of the first agencies to sell cellphone photos to media companies (along with SpyMedia), so the expansion to blog content makes sense. Th...
