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Three Itty Bitty Digg Clones You Might Not Know

DigWin, BlogsferaNews and StartupNewz are all fighting for their niche in the user-submitted content corner of the blogosphere. What are today's startups may be tomorrow's Digg. And as each has only a more...
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Mixx launching public beta on Tuesday

Social news site Mixx is launching its public beta amid buzz about its customizable interfaces that promises to make it much more user-friendly. Its founder and CEO Chris McGill has had extensive experience more...
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Is 2008 The Year of LinkedIn?

Anne Zelenka analyzes: LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye predicts the company’s revenues could grow to $100 million next year. News Corp. (apparently) wants to buy it. More than 80% of its members are outside the more...
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Kindo, a new Genealogy site for making family trees

Kindo is a new genealogy site for making family trees. Its flash based intuitive interface makes it easy to create family trees. Major startups in this area are Geni and Amiglia. more...
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College Tonight trying to go after Facebook Users

College Tonight is a new social networking site dedicated to social networking by college students. As the name implies, the primary focus of the site is night life of the college students. more...
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Family genealogy startup Verdant.de on the rise, beats Geni

Techcrunch is reporting that the Family genealogy and social newtork site Geni is beaten by Verwandt.de . Verdant.de is the clode on Geni, but is Verdandt is reportedly growing many time faster than Geni. more...
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Concerns regarding Facebook privacy

There’s been another round of “Facebook is bad because they use our data” postings this weekend. The general argument is that Facebook should provide users the ability to opt-out of data sharing, more...
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Facebook's Social Ads may be illegal

William McGeveran, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, asserts that the Facebook advertising announcement could be illegal since it violates an age-old privacy law. more...
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Mark Cuban: Facebook, and OpenSocial

Mark Cuban is, as usual, insightful when he describes the potential of Facebook profiles to be used as the basis for smarter social applications outside of Facebook. His call for a truly open Facebook more...
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Find potential mate in 3 mintues using speeddate

Similar to WooMe (which is still in private alpha) dates are short, (hopefully) sweet, and one-on-one. SpeedDate will match you up based on some basic personality and geographical preferences. And starting more...
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