Links for 2008-04-18
- Industry News
- VentureBeat: Social network platform Ning pre-money valued at over $500 million, This comes on the heels of FastCompany’s unabashedly smitten coverage
- Torstar cutting 160 positions including the entire internet production staff at Canada’s largest daily newspaper, The Toronto Star
- Wahington Post’s memo on its migration from newspaper and new media companies to a true media organization [Poynter]
- RSS 101
- How to use RSS to make life easier [Edublogger]
- How to stoke your creativity and keep abreast of your passions [Creative Liberty]
- RSS Aggregator service Readburner goes mobile [ReadWriteWeb]. More from Mashable.
- Preview service here [Readburner mobile]
- iPhone preview here [Readburner iPhone]
- How to use RSS and Social Media for news gathering [Journalism.co.uk]
- General
- Avoid ten common typos [Receding Hairline]. Found on Lifehacker.
- Hackontest - Google backed 24 hour open source coding marathon [Slashdot]
Most influential article on dotShout!
The top story of the day, in my opinion, should be the emergence of the biggest business media company in the world: Thomson Reuters. The new company has annual revenues of $12.5B, 50K employees and more than 40K customers in 155 countries, but here are the stories the dotShouters backed.
- South Park: Over Logging
- HP 2133 Mini-Note getting XP install option in…
- Fodder: YouTube Doles Out $1 Million In Ad…
- Canadiens-Bruins: Short haircut for Bruins?
- Eee PC 900 details, launch dates come trickling…
- Crestron Home Automation Adds Windows Sideshow…
- Thomson Reuters Day One: Combined Company, New…
- Desperate wife slams husband with venomous…
- David Wild: First Listen: The Songs of Jakob Dylan
- Romney: I could have won, with a few more Osmonds
