I ranted yesterday morning about the quantity of news on Mashable and the fact that a digest, weekly or bi-weekly would be so good, and am now catching up my feeds (since mid-end February for minor-news and company launches).
So here is what I liked:
Gimado: online music search with an index of over 8 millions files. (More info)
NewsPond: a beautiful, very intuitive news aggregator, à la Digg, Reddit, … To be continued, the site just launched but look really promising ! (More info)
Xing: a European LinkedInwho absorbed many of the smaller actors in 2007 is claiming 5M members and $28M in revenues (paid subscriptions + advertising). Wow, nice for an “old-continent” young startup ! (More info).
Streem: a micro-blogging platform. Interesting design and setup, but especially, when you get to understand the concept of the discussions (response to posts + comments), it’s really cool playing with it. Mix Tumblr + Twitter: add commenting to Tumblr and linking between Twitts for Twitter and you got Streem. (More info)
WeddingWire: it’s all about the network and … the notoriety ! WeddingWire, a niche wedding organization site, has the best backer it could have: Martha Stewart. (More info)
LeMonde.frhas an interesting map of the social networks popularity in the world. US: MySpace 223M, Facebook 173M. Europe: Bebo 65M, MySpace 43M, SkyBlog 41M, Facebook 39M. Africa: Facebook 16M. SouthAmerica: Orkut 156M. Asia: Friendster 90M, Cyworld 74M.
GoogleMaps: gets more specific than listing with neighborhood and ratings sorting options. They get beyond the simple listing, cool ! (More info)
ChatBack: new feature of GTalk allowing publishers to put a widget on their site and visitors to chat with them, even if they don’t have a Google account. (Via)
Picnik: the online image editor has gone free ! It’s the editor associated with Flickr, really practical ! (More info)
LinkedIn: updates in the general setup and user-interface, inspired by Facebook. Makes a lot of sense … Facebook is not LinkedIn, but could very easily compete: it makes sense for LinkedIn to move forward. (More Info)
PlaceSpotting: a new game on a Google Maps mashup, based on Where’s Waldo: you’re given an image, you have to locate it.(More info)
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