Trends Earthquake in UK? News Broken on Twitter It would appear that an earthquake was just felt across the UK (hopefully not a major one!). Where did the news first break? Well, we heard about it over Twitter. It's all over the site, including being broken on Twitter-based news organization BreakingNewsOn, which is reporting a 5.3 magnitude earthquake in the UK with minimal damage reported… Social Josh Catone View comments
Features Beware of Freeconomics A few weeks ago we published a piece on this blog entitled The Danger of Free, in which we discussed the rise of free - a marketing strategy where digital products are given away. This month's issue of Wired magazine features a cover story on the topic by editor-in-chief Chris Anderson. The article is a preview of his forthcoming book, called… Alex Iskold View comments
Product Reviews Orglex: Semantic News, Blog and Job Search for Industry Verticals Orglex is a new semantic-web powered news, blog and job search engine with a social networking component and industry vertical focus. It's an interesting service that brings together a number of different approaches we've seen elsewhere to build something relatively new. Semantic analysis of content makes topic focused search smarter than… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews TextBound Heralds Mobile Marketing's Arrival Mobile marketing startup, TextBound, has big plans to make text messages the new mass media for advertisers. Like we mentioned earlier, more and more companies are going to be betting on location based mobile ads this year, and TextBound hopes to capitalize on this trend. But unlike mobile social network/marketing vehicle, Fluc, TextBound isn't… Sarah Perez View comments
Blogging In Malaysia, Bloggers Become Politicians We've written a lot about the Internet's role in American politics over the past six months as the US heads toward presidential elections next fall. How the web is playing a key role in this election cycle is a fascinating story, but the Internet is having a profound effect on politics in other parts of the world. We've focused on the US mainly… Josh Catone View comments