Product Reviews Mixx to Digg: We Break News Faster Today, social news web site, Mixx, announced new features to their service that will help them break news faster by getting big news stories promoted to the home page in a timely fashion. On the Mixx blog post about the changes, they point out that timeliness has been a problem with social news sites, themselves included - until now. To solve the… Sarah Perez View comments
Product Reviews Social Apps Set Free: Ringside Networks to Port Facebook Apps to Web Veteran Open Source businessman Bob Bickel will launch his new company Ringside Networks at the Open Source Business Conference tomorrow and he's set his sites high. Ringside will let developers easily port Facebook apps to any other website and it will integrate company websites with social graph and communication features back at Facebook. Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Contests Comment of the Day: Facebook Security Lapse is Weeks Old Today's winning comment comes from our post about a Facebook security flaw that allowed people to access private photos - including some from Paris Hilton at the Emmys and others from Facebook founding CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vacation in November of 2005. In an excellent example of crowdsourced fact checking and research, Mark Jaquith noted that… Richard MacManus View comments
Product Reviews Yahoo! Releases Badges for Pipes Yahoo! Pipes is one of the coolest apps on the web for messing around with data. You can use it to splice together feeds, filter them, pull photos from Flickr and do a whole lot more. Some usability improvements would be nice but a little bit of experimentation goes a long way. One thing Pipes has not done before today is offer a way to… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features Imeem Launches Developer Platform for Music Social Networking Major social networking site Imeem launched a developer platform tonight that will enable read/write access to user information and more. Imeem is a site where users can upload music, create and listen to any uploads and blog about music all for free. Imeem pays internet radio-style licensing fees for each time a copyrighted song is… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments