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To get a great tv like experience with your Facebook and Twitter friends and news streams you need to try Stevie. The service transforms the linear news streams into a tv like interface. The news of friends and favored sites are coming up within a news ticker, at the side uploaded images appear and in the middle videos are displayed.

The performance and experience is nothing less than great by the well designed surface provided by Stevie. To get to the content the service provides channels. At first there is the own channel displaying favored and uploaded stuff and the second channel called friends tv is showing favored stuff and uploads of friends. Last but not least there is a great choice of editorial channels. It is really a must see service: Stevie.

FOLDEN.INFO Directory Sources: Interactive Television – Internet Television – Social Networking

Pheed for sure is an interesting new social network. This is because of its combination of features and did you know that the Facebook population becomes older according to latest research?

So what is Pheed about? It enables to share everything you expect, texts, audio, photos and videos, and additionally it includes voice and broadcasting. The latter is one kind of upcoming media becoming increasingly popular and currently served by live streaming services.

But there is one and an even more interesting aspect than just another combination of features with broadcasting in particular already been available at least to Google+ users and by add ons provided by live streaming services to Facebook users as well. The even more outstanding feature is a monetization opportunity provided by Pheed. This feature meets todays lifestyle with everyone being a producer now. So might this be a feature and indicator of the next generation of social networks? For more visit Pheed.

FOLDEN.INFO Directory Sources: Live Streaming – Social Networking

I am not sure, if this is good or old news, but Digg has a broad coverage these days and does eagerly point to its new features by sending out news. So I was curious and after visiting just the homepage formerly I logged in to check it out. Probably you know the story, Digg has been a most popular news sharing service at the beginning of the social media boom and struggles in a similar way like MySpace did, the formerly most popular social media service at all.

Today the homepage of Digg is completly redesigned and changed from mostly text based to images showcasing the most popular stories in a way the rising Pinterest does. So I logged in to digg deeper into the changes. What I found is a clear design but with just simple features. There are the top and most popular stories and the upcoming stories showcasing the latest submissions of articles, a remaining relict. After this I tried the search engine, but found only most simple and no advanced search functions. This made me wondering and I surfed around finding a tagging system beside the particular stories and as well available after searching, which works fine and enables to subscribe to a particular topic by rss or email. Last but not least I looked at the bottom to find more features and found a link to submit stories, a feature what a news sharing service is all about. The process is very easy and instead of a former check, if a story is already submitted, it just accepted the submission by one click, which makes submissions most easy opposed to the former process.

But could this be enough? No functions to share with others, to find or follow friends have been found. The coverage elsewhere is controversial by stating New Digg owners claim the “Digg effect is back”, user base doubled in 5 months or Digg pokes up its head and says, ‘I’m not dead yet (showing a controversial statistic). But have a look by yourself: Digg.

FOLDEN.INFO Directory Sources: News Sharing – News Rating