Product Reviews Visualize Your FriendFeed Stats with FeedStats Today, the folks over at Microblink have launched a new application which allows you to visualize your FriendFeed data or the data belonging to your friends. Called FeedStats, the app displays charts and graphs which show what services are being used, what time you post, and who interacts with your content the most. In short, FeedStats is a lot… Sarah Perez View comments
New Media NYTimes Appoints First Social Media Editor Jennifer Preston has been appointed the first Social Media Editor of the New York Times. It has come to this; the flagship institution of traditional journalism now has an editor level position dedicated to new media. Little is known about Preston's personal use of social media, she's either using aliases or is remarkably quiet around the web… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Facebook Facebook Goes East: Takes $200 Million Investment from Russian Investment Firm After we saw some rumors about this over the weekend, Facebook today confirmed that it will receive a $200 million investment from Digital Sky Technologies (DST), one of the leading Internet investment groups in Eastern Europe. This investment puts Facebook's valuation at $10 billion. DST also plans to offer to purchase at least $100 million in… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
Features Comparing Yahoo and Google's Voice Search Applications At the end of last week, Yahoo! introduced an update to their iPhone application (iTunes URL) which now includes the ability to perform web searches using only your voice. This is the first real competitor to Google's Mobile App, whose voice recognition technology came to the iPhone back in November of 2008. Now the only question is how do these… Sarah Perez View comments
NYT Yahoo Meme: Hands On With Yahoo's Twitter 'Clone' A few weeks ago, we heard that Yahoo was readying a Portuguese-only Twitter clone under the name Yahoo Meme. Today, we finally got our invitation to try this new service, and while it is indeed an interesting micro-blogging service, we wouldn't go as far as calling it a "Twitter killer." Instead of cloning Twitter's communications features like… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments