Uncategorized - by Patrick Thornton on Friday, March 14, 2008 15:46 - 0 Comments

The Social News Expansion

Gannett has Pluck, which is being incorporated into the Cincinnati Enquirer and News-Press. It looks like WaPo is opening up to a social networking aspect to their properties (news organizations?) as well.
clipped from www.paidcontent.org

WaPo Interactive Invests In Social News Firm SocialMedian

Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the digital media arm of WaPo has made an early-stage investment in SocialMedian, the yet-to-launch social news company/site founded by Jason Goldberg, former chief of Web 2.0 jobs site Jobster.com. The amount was not disclosed. We reported earlier on his $1 million seed round raise. Even though you may groan on hearing about yet-another-social-news-site, Goldberg tell us that “It’s not yet another Digg clone. Rather, it’s a fresh new take on delivering more personalized news inspired by people with similar interests. We’re very focused on building a mainstream mass-market better news-getting experience for anyone/anywhere.” Proof is in the pudding…

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