Google Buzrr Wants to Be Tweetmeme for Google Buzz Swedish marketing technologist Dennis Hettema has created a hot-item tracking website for the most-shared items on Google Buzz, called Buzrr. The site is very simple right now, it doesn't include categories, there's no description of how it works ("we are jumping through a bunch of hoops," Hettema says) and the "new buzz" column is already full of… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Social Web This Game Is Fixed! Democratized Content v. Voting Rings TheSixtyOne Seeks to Solve the Problem In an interesting move against those who would manipulate traffic on the social web, music site TheSixtyOne is looking for a programmer who can crack the codes of voting rings. On sites such as Digg, Reddit and even TheSixtyOne itself, spammers can rig a supposedly democratic system that allows good… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
Startups Keeping Out the Trolls: Relevancy in User-Generated Content In the summer of 2008, J.R. Johnson sold Virtual Tourist to Expedia for $85 million dollars. While Johnson seems like the type of laid back Los Angeles entrepreneur that would take some vacation time, his quest for relevancy had him launching a new community the following March. Lunch.com is Johnson's attempt to cut through the noise that has… Dana Oshiro View comments
Facebook Facebook Granted Patent on the News Feed - This Could Be Very Big Facebook has been granted a patent on the Newsfeed, "displaying a news feed in a social network environment." Nick O'Neill at AllFacebook found the patent first and says it could be "one of the most significant social web patents" in a decade. If all algorithmic ranking and delivery of social activity updates to social network users falls under… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Ai Weiwei Event Historic Conversation in NYC: Ai Weiwei, Jack Dorsey & Richard MacManus On March 15, at the prestigious Paley Center in New York City, a conversation will take place between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and yours truly, Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb founder and editor in chief. The moderator will be Orville Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China… Richard MacManus View comments