Digg, one of the first social media sites specialized on sharing of technology news, has introduced a new function called Digg Newswire. Opposed to the already existing Top News function working near realtime the newswire is bringing up information in realtime. Additionally there are various functions to personalize the service. This may happen by topics [...]
Currently the Disrupt 2011 happens, a startup event organized by TechCrunch, where new applications and services are introduced. These new services are most interesting, but almost all are still in private beta. An already available application is the mobile citizen journalism service Meporter, which like most of the introduced apps has a very own subject [...]
The launch of the new storytelling service Storify has been awaited eagerly and now the service is available in public beta. The service enables to collect various kind of media available on the social web to create a story consisting of the best resources found. Media may include texts, photos, audio and video. The media [...]
