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Scoopler Digs Up Some Funding, New Features
Scoopler Digs Up Some Funding, New Features
Realtime, realtime, realtime — it’s all you seem to hear now with regard to the web. But back in May, it was just emerging as a new trend that looked poised to explode. And one company at the forefront of that was Scooper , a Y Combinator -backed realtime search engine. Today, being ahead ...
Experimenting with Digg Trends
Experimenting with Digg Trends
blog.digg.com — Hi there, Because there’s so much that happens beneath the surface of Digg, we’ve been working on... new ways to expose the most interesting stories to more people. Today we’re launching a new homepage voting experiment called Digg ... (more) Experimenting with Digg Trends
Using Twitter Lists to Judge Influence
bivingsreport.com — If you’ve used Twitter for awhile, you know that judging the influence of a Twitter user by... their number of followers is a dicey proposition. Lots of Twitter users are obsessed with their number of followers, and work to inflate their stats in ways ... (more) Using Twitter Lists to Judge Influence
Digg To Release New Counting Feature, Makes Digg More User-Friendly Than Before
Digg To Release New Counting Feature, Makes Digg More User-Friendly Than Before
blog.ziggytek.com — Digg, the number one social news website for sharing and discovering content is about to get much... better according to reports from sources and a blurry image (pictured above). This new counting feature seems to be something Digg will try out in the near future, to see how users interact ... (more) Digg To Release New Counting Feature, Makes Digg More ...
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Real-Time Searcher Scoopler Raises Seed Round From Ron Conway, Others
paidContent — ... (subs req) that the startup raised between $500,000 and $1 million in this angel round. Conway, Bebo co-founder Michael Birch, Avalon Ventures and XG Ventures all participated in the funding, which was first reported by TechCrunch; Scoopler was first backed by Y Combinator last year. ...

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