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<title>No Acquisition For Digg - Raise Series B Round Instead</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Interestingly, the post claims Digg is not yet profitable despite earlier reports that it was. I expect to see some further changes in their model. This makes me doubt NewsVine's claim that it will be profitable early in 2007. By the way, Digg has 18 people - how many people do you think it takes to build NewsCloud?]]></description>
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<title>New York Times adds sharing tool</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The New York Times now allows readers to share with Digg and Newsvine ... and FaceBook(?). Interesting move. Seems experimental to me. Definitely a coupe for Newsvine because they seem to gain the most from the deal. The New York Times is also adding a permalink feature (wow?). Anyway, this won't apply to premium firewall content.]]></description>
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<title>What's the future for news personalization?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OJR interviews Calvin Tang, co-founder of Newsvine, about the status of "Daily Me" applications and how his site is using technology to involve readers more intimately with the news.]]></description>
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<title>News brought to you by the average Joe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Blogs have long been a home for personal essays and observations, but they're also a key tool for citizen journalists. Some of the best-known citizen journalism sites started off as blogs, but have since acquired a more professional sheen. A notable example is Talking Points Memo, a well-read, three-employee political blog that its creator says is profitable.

"What's powerful about what the Web has done is it allowed a lot more voices and information to make it to the surface than ever before," said Jeff Reifman, a Seattle software developer who worked at Microsoft for eight years. Reifman recently redesigned his news-aggregator site and changed its name from CommonTimes to NewsCloud.

But writing is difficult, he said, and it takes time and expertise to cover a "beat."

Generally, people who write blogs are not in it to break news. A recent study by the Pew Internet &amp; American Life project said that only a third of the 12 million American adults who keep a blog consider them to be journalism.]]></description>
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<title>Idealog: NewsVine and NewsCloud</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I put some thoughts together comparing NewsCloud with NewsVine, one of the earlier social network news sites. I also wanted to share a bit more about what NewsCloud is about - our values, etc.]]></description>
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