In Other NEooWS
Pluck’s RSS reader has died, but NEooWS, which promises community discussion around feeds, is the latest to go after this commoditized market. Let us know if you check it out.
VentureBeat Adds $100K+ Job Board
VentureBeat has started a job board for Valley jobs paying $100,000 and up. TheLadders has had a lot of success with this demographic. Yes, everybody has a job board these days, but the newcomer has more than 100 listings already.
Wired buys Reddit
Conde Nast has bought Reddit. It is one of those days… everyone is buying everyone.
SideStep Buys TravelPost
Online travel search company SideStep has bought hotel review site TravelPost. SideStep was one of the first of the new wave of meta-search travel sites around, though now there are many. We guess they have to stand out somehow — why not buy a travel blogging site?
Friendster Philippines Office closed?
Hey could this be true? Friendster has shut down its office in one of its biggest markets? Couldn’t be – maybe they relocated!
Google buys JotSpot
We will dig into this later, but for now, go read what JotSpotters have to say about the deal.
eSnips Raises $2 million in Series A funding
SF TechSessions was all abuzz with social bookmarking yesterday. And now comes the news that eSnips, an Israeli social sharing site has raised $2 million in new funding from Greylock Partners and Gemini Israel Funds.
Slingbox on your Mac, finally
It has been a long time coming, but Mac lovers can get on the place shifting bandwagon, and get Slingbox mojo on their Macs.
Le Monde Switches To WordPress
French newspaper giant Le Monde has relaunched their blogging services based on WordPress. It must be the themes, that did the trick
Fidelity’s Personal Finance Search Engine
Fidelity, the mutual fund giant has its own tech lab, and they have developed a cool personal finance search engine that uses flash-based UI.