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Famechanger - digital media social games social news celebrity

Famechanger

Personalized, social, and deeply interactive celebrity news and content.
Famechanger is a digital media platform (presently branded for pop culture content) that seamlessly blends proven user engagement mechanisms. We integrate best practices from the areas of social media, fantasy gaming, and personalized news readers to create a ...

Newschekzz - chat social news

Newschekzz

Chat about the news you read.
Newschekzz is a Chekzz site that allows you to talk to people after you read your news.

MINR - digital media social media news social news

MINR

MINR's forthcoming App finds the news that's relevant to each individual user.
MINR is building a mobile news app. Currently in stealth

Keepr - big data journalism social news

Keepr

Search Engine for breaking news
Keepr automatically finds and curates developing news stories as it happens by applying NLP and social network analysis to structure social media contemt.

CopyMint - publishing marketplaces social news content creators

CopyMint

Where people & publishers connect.
CopyMint is a social marketplace that matches contributor articles (by influencers & everyday people) with the most relevant publishers worldwide. Publishers can also message people for quotes, interviews, and more. There are millions of people around the world ...

grasswire - digital media news journalism social news

grasswire

The Newsroom of the Internet
Whenever news breaks the Internet is flooded with content. First-hand pictures and videos, reaction, and even intentional lies and propaganda are all published at incredible rates. The information produced creates a firehose too big for anyone to drink from, and ...

Limelight - social news

Limelight

Pinterest + Freebase + Wikipedia
Limelight is a new way to share, organize, and discover things on the web around topics. At Limelight we're organizing content on the internet around a web of topics, much like Wikipedia organizes static dictionary information around topics.

The Daily Pundit - digital media q&a social news Content Curation

The Daily Pundit

The Daily Pundit aims to make news reading easier and more interactive for the younger generation by powering daily news Q&A content and discussion. Ask and answer questions about a news topic that interests you, and read through our in-house editorial team curated ...

Little Things - digital media news social news

Little Things

Sharing the Amazing Little Things in Life
Little Things is a new media spin-off that was founded by two successful serial entrepreneurs. The site has grown incredibly fast in the past six months, almost as many page views as the NY Times and BuzzFeed.com. We curate uplifting and highly sharable content, ...

Opedio - social media social media platforms blogging platforms social news

Opedio

Blogging, totally rethought
Opedio is a platform for people to blog and subscribe to other's blogs. The trend on the internet is that we communalize. Independently hosted blogs will soon be a relic of the past. Every post on Opedio connects with other posts to create a graph that connects ...

Lookmark - social media news social media platforms social news

Lookmark

Last.fm for news
Lookmark solves the problem of What To Read by sharing what you and your friends are reading, automatically. It’s like Last.fm for news; it's become an addictive news source for our early users. We currently have a Chrome extension and iPhone app in private alpha; ...

Verity News - digital media news social news

Verity News

Pandora for News
Verity News is currently a pre-revenue startup looking to launch its next version, a complete overhaul of the current site and an entirely new service to increase customer engagement. We live in the digital age where tremendous amount of data are being shared ...

Monogogo Global Radio Network - social commerce social news general public worldwide us hispanic market

Monogogo Global Radio Network

Advanced audio/video content management systems
Monogogo Global Radio Network builds advanced audio content management systems. We provide commercial and non-commercial audio streaming outlets with highly efficient, cost effective, audio editorial aggregation content platforms. Projected market share is 12% ...

Perooz - news social news

Perooz

A critical lens for the news
Perooz is a platform that adds a layer of annotations and commentary to users' daily web browsing. Rather than relying on a simple news source, users will be able to gain insight from on-the-ground journalists and experts in specific fields. These experts, in turn, ...

Sidy Technologies - photography local social news

Sidy Technologies

Houzz for Everything Else
Sidy aims to give you best of your city in real-time. We feature stories by community business leaders, influential journalists and city thought leaders who go to work every day to make your city a great place to live, work, love, learn and play.

Niaterra News - digital media news social news

Niaterra News

A new type of news that connects the dots between stories to see both sides of issues
A cross between Reddit, Quora, and PolicyMic, Niaterra News has invented a new type of news that helps people connect the dots between the stories to see both sides of issues. Anyone can create this new type of news, a "News Nia," that shows a high-level summary ...

PLOW - mobile digital media social media social news

PLOW

Optimizing return on attention.
It’s too hard to find good information about the topics you care about. And it’s getting harder. Plow organizes people around the topics they care about and the terms they identify with, and provides a platform where they can consume, share, and evaluate content. ...

Dialog - social media news social media platforms social news

Dialog

News Feed with Actual News
Dialog collects and displays high quality news articles.

mypaper. - mobile social media social news

mypaper.

The Newspaper of your Social Life
Just as a newspaper keeps you informed about what's happening around the world and in your neighborhood, mypaper. keeps you informed about your social circle! mypaper pulls posts from your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram news feeds to create 4 sections of your ...

Comunitee - social media news social news

Comunitee

Comunitee is a social news discovery platform.
Comunitee's goal is to create the 'network effect' for your every day news reader. Comunitee is a social news discovery platform that learns what content you like and automatically shares it with your friends and followers. There's no need to click Follow, Tweet, ...

Fresco News - mobile photography news social news

Fresco News

Crowdsourced news platform
Fresco is a crowdsourced news platform with a focus on media. We utilize our own user base as well as sources such as Twitter to provide news organizations with a seamless way to source, verify, and license breaking news imagery coming from the millions of smartphones ...

eldonReader - mobile digital media social media social news

eldonReader

eldonReader provides the missing web and mobile platform to Google Alert.
eldonReader is an alert system. You subscribe to the topic that you're interested in, eldonReader checks regularly to see if there are new results for your query and If there are new results, you get them right in your eldonReader feed. Although we’re inspired ...

Protestify - photo sharing data visualization social news

Protestify

PROTESTIFY: Protest and Testify
Innovating Citizen Journalism. Disrupting Visual News. Protestify is a citizen journalism platform that visualizes global protest news through social media. Protestify frees journalists from the manual and uncertain process of finding breaking news through social ...

Circcle Interactive - content discovery social news social network media content creators

Circcle Interactive

Put you in touch with the world
Circcle puts you in touch with the world. Everyday, our editors comb the Internet and bring you news videos of the latest top stories, business, entertainment, politics, and more, so you can stay informed with ease.

MiiWe - mobile digital media ipad social news

MiiWe

An iPad App to revolutionize the way we consume our daily news.
An iPad app to revolutionize the way we consume news on a daily basis. MiiWe is truly different than anything else in the market. A free download, our unique ad-based revenue model should allow us to generate significant revenue from the first month of availability ...

Blocvox - communities crowdsourcing social media platforms social news

Blocvox

The easiest and most authentic way to keep in touch with groups and causes.
Blocvox lets social groups easily and fairly publicize their collective opinions in real-time. It's never been easier to combine your voice with others to reach the public and change the world. Not an activist? The Blocvox Front Page intelligently collates announcements ...

The Jiwan Report - digital media blogging platforms social news

The Jiwan Report

We report the Truth.
I believe the people deserve the truth. In a world where special interests and corporations control what the media say and do, the rest of us are left not knowing what is fact and what is fiction. But there is a third way, if you read between the lines and ask ...

Vetted - social media social news online readers

Vetted

Take control of the news from your social networks
Vetted provides a clean, beautiful way to read the news with a set of powerful tools that help you stay informed without getting overwhelmed. Vetted is a product of Web Philosophic, LLC.

Tagg.ly - video photography news social news

Tagg.ly

One touch branding for media
Tagg.ly allows people to get the credit for their photos and videos shared online for free. Every internet user has asked these questions: > Where was this photo taken? > When was this photo taken? > Who took this photo? By quickly adding name, logo, location, ...

ACW Media Group & Agency - digital media e-commerce social news curated web

ACW Media Group & Agency

Cultural & Creative Technology Agency
WITH PASSION FOR EVERYTHING CULTURAL AND CREATIVE We are driven to create products and services that curate the cultural conversations of our time and connect the world through shared cultural experiences, to surface insights that spark innovative ideas, products ...

Readingly - news journalism social news

Readingly

Instagram for journalism
Readingly is a social network for discovering, sharing and discussing great articles of journalism and other long-form writing. Its aim is to provide a focused experience that is uninterrupted by other types of activity common on general-purpose social networks ...

Tradefolio - social media finance trading social news

Tradefolio

A micro-blogging site for traders.
A micro-blogging site for traders, where visitors can share their opinions on stocks, commodities and foreign exchange.

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