Fresh from a 2.75 Million funding round, internet startup Publish2 will seek to create a sort of Digg-like social bookmarking community for journalism and journalists / bloggers.
Venture Beat’s got the scoop and notes in their article:

Publish2 intends to be a sort of news aggregator that’s based on the storiesthat journalists — broadly defined to include bloggers — think are interesting,so not unlike Digg or Techmeme. It’s a social bookmarking site …

As Matt Marshall notes this is a really intriguing idea despite the fact that many such news aggregator approaches have so far failed to gain More»

Labels: news, publishing

Harrison Hoffman, reporting at CNET, is impressed with the news feature that Microsoft is now bringing to the LIVE search environment as part of the changes to LIVE that are codenamed “ROME” and are to be released this spring. LIVE has struggled for some time to take market share from Google and/or Yahoo, and so far LIVE has failed to deliver.
Thus despite the cleverness of the Microsoft LIVE team I’m skeptical that they can do much to pull readers away from Google’s excellent Google news service unless they manage to bring news directly into the explorer More»

Labels: Microsoft, news

If the news is important, will it find you?
Two normally insightful web watchers - Matt Ingram who writes for the Toronto Globe and Mail and his own techology blog, and Mark Cuban who writes for the heck of it after making a billion or so during web bubble number one - suggest that the news will find them.
They are wrong, and this line of thought is both foolish and dangerous.
The notion is that in our globally networked and highly interconnected 24/7 information environment important items won’t just drop off of the radar - rather these “need to know” More»

Labels: internet, mark cuban, matt ingraham, news, social networks