VentureBeat says Forbes will Buy ClipMarks

Holy crap! As I was browsing this AM looking for stories to clip+posts I see this on Techmeme>VentureBeat. There’s going to be a lot of press and traffic to the CM site/service in the next few weeks. Let’s hope they handle it well! clipped from...

Spock is a Search Engine Made of People!

The social search scene is great and all, and I’m sure there’s a market there but I’m also sure there’s lots of people who DON’T want to show up in Spock’s results. What is the “opt out” feature like? clipped from...

Google Not Going After Digg & Netscape … Yet

Mashable had the hot steaming news about Google’s new commenting system for it’s News service. Before you start getting all giddy it’s only open to companies and organizations “related” to the news story. Beyond the editorial nightmare what surprised me was...

The Biggest Digg Whores

Not exactly whores, but very popular on the front page of Digg. This little run down by Glen Allsopp shows the top 5 most Dugg blogs ever. I’d be interested in seeing the long tail on this, who makes up the stars in the minor leagues? clipped from...

Buy.com Offers Garage Sale Facebook App

This clip is from TC and it’s pulled from a post authored by Michael Arrington. I have to disagree with the assessment here and take issue with his main argument (below). If I have a network of maybe 100 friends on Facebook, or even 10-20 and they are listing their stuff for sale...

Social Lending from LendingClub

Social lending sites have always peeked my interest, but I’ve never thought of myself as a candidate (as I generally don’t have any credit issues). LendingClub appears to be another entrant into the social money swap arena, hopefully they’re not too late....