Web 2.0: Reuters will launch financial Social Network

Reuters is planning to launch this year a financial network for fund managers, traders and analysts similar to MySpace. The web site will be exclusive to Reuters’ subscriber base of about 70,000. “…People don’t want to have 100 friend requests from teenage girls in Florida if they are trading the…

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DIGG: Wisdom of the Crowds or Famous for 15 minutes

Social Networking site “Digg.com” puts quite some efforts up to show its users that they are just submitting a duplicate news story. While the duplicate search often comes up with some unrelated stuff it almost always finds duplicates. And when we see that somebody before us has already spread the news we just digg that story and cancel our submission. Not so for many other Digg users as it seems…We just had a look around in their Apple sections and the image below shows the results…

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CityPixel: Social Network 3D pixel world

For those of you who could never get enough of playing SimCity there is a new social Network site that with its pixel graphics look much like the popular game. CityPixel is a pixel based 3D city (New York) where you can move around, enter buildings, buy apartments, chat, blog, share videos etc, play games, and socialize…

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The BEST Interactive Image Interfaces on the Web

To create this list we have been looking at dozens of data visualization, image mapping and picture mosaic solutions plus piles of descriptions. To make the list most useful we came up with the following criteria for the tools:

Should be online and actively maintained by the site owner
Should be interactive
Should use photos / images [...]

Update: Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?

In our previous post Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts? we have shown evidence how Digg is currently spammed and asked users to read articles before voting for them. (our article was removed in minutes while being heavily digged by users)
Since then a few things have happened:
1. Digg support more or [...]

Yahoo: Online Bookmark service gets an upgrade

Anew version of Yahoo’s online bookmark service is now available. The service allows users to store bookmarks or favorites online to share them on different computers or with others. New features of the service include drag and drop support, folders to organize your bookmarks and improved search functions.
Tags can now be used as well [...]

HotSoup.com: Now live and cooking

Much talked about social network site for political issues HotSoup has a few hours ago opened its gates and is now online.
Created by …four Democratic strategists, three Internet entrepreneurs, two Republican strategists and one journalist… they are planning to bring together 80+ celebrity opinion leaders with grass roots opinion drivers (?consumers) to engage them [...]

Reuters gets virtual Second Life

After companies like Major League Baseball, Harvard University, American Apparel Inc. and CNet.com today news giant Reuters announced that it has created a presence in the Second Life world.
From its Virtual News Bureau chief “Adam Reuters” who’s real name is Adam Pasick will report regularly. He has setup virtual office and his office [...]