| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.03.2011 | The Fab.com story: 10 tips on when to change your game | Jason Goldberg is founder and CEO of Fab.com, a private-sales site focused on design. Prior to founding Fab, which began as a gay social network, Jason founded Socialmedian and Jobster. In a prior life, he spent six years working 100 hours ... |
| 09.12.2010 | Xing snaps up event startup Amiando | German business social networking site Xing has acquired Amiando, an online event management and ticketing services company, for around 10.3 million euros, as the “German LinkedIn” attempts to engage its more than 10 million members more ac... |
| 11.05.2009 | Socialmedian Returns As Xing News | We recently covered socialmedian, which late last year was acquired by European business social network XING, when they introduced a nifty application on the Facebook platform that allowed its users to share personalized news from across th... |
| 16.03.2009 | Socialmedian Makes It Easy For You To Spread Social News On Facebook | Socialmedian just made an interesting announcement about connecting its services to Facebook in a big way. As of about an hour ago, you can log in and participate on socialmedian with Facebook Connect, which is a noteworthy move considering... |
| 14.03.2009 | Meehive unveiled, Disney D23, Google reprices | What am I Missy; Episode 12
Meehive, a personalized online newspaper, just launched this week. Stories are shown based on your chosen categories, such as business or sports, and your nano interests, like dancing, skydiving, or baking. Meehi... |
| 19.12.2008 | European Business Social Network XING Acquires socialmedian (Update: For $7.5 Million) | Hamburg, Germany based XING, a global professional social network that’s strong in Europe, has acquired New York based socialmedian for an undisclosed amount approximately $7.5 million in total, a mix of $4 million in cash up front and an e... |
| 19.12.2008 | Socialmedian acquired by business network Xing | European business networking site Xing has acquired socialmedian, a service created by former Jobster chief executive Jason Goldberg to share and discuss news stories. Goldberg’s blog post announcing the deal doesn’t name a price, although ... |
| 19.12.2008 | Ex-Jobster’s Firm Sold for $7.5M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Jobster’s co-founder and former CEO, Jason Goldberg, has sold his new startup, Socialmedian, to Hamburg, Germany-based Xing for about $7.5 million. Socialmedian ... |
| 18.12.2008 | XING Acquires Socialmedian | Socialmedian, a social news site designed to allow users to group around news networks, has been acquired by the German social network XING, a major international player with more than 6 million business users.
Clearly, this is a big win fo... |
| 24.11.2008 | Exchange rate for blog comments, interaction | This is a first attempt at creating a rate for interacting with blogs
(Editor's note: Allen Stern and Center Networks are not affiliated with this post or the exchange rate tables, yet. The CN logo has been helpfully borrowed)
In May, Mathe... |
| 23.10.2008 | Twine's social bookmarking on steroids | Twine untangles beta
Nova Spivack, creator and CEO of Twine, sees that networks based on its users' interests are at what he calls a "tipping point". In the last year, you've seen dramatic growth in this space, with the rise of Fr... |
| 22.10.2008 | Ignoring Downturns Is Unhealthy And Dangerous | Ok, here we go again. As soon as people get tired of blaming the venture capitalists for the downturn and layoffs, they start to point the finger at bloggers and journalists who write about them. In a blog post, SocialMedian founder Jason G... |
| 14.10.2008 | The future of social media | It's mobile, unified and transparent
This morning, I had the pleasure of taking part in a podcast with Wayne Sutton and Kipp Bodnarf for their Talk Social News program. During the conversation, we discussed how to find time to participate i... |
| 22.09.2008 | Socialmedian Launches New 'Replize' Feature to Help Communication | Just off its first major upgrade, socialmedian, a service that lets users find and share news from within their social networks, announced today that it’s offering a new feature called “replize,” which enables sociamedian users to interact ... |
| 22.09.2008 | Socialmedian Now More Twitter-esque With “Replize” | Today, socialmedian, the social news web site which we’ve described as a “less noisy FriendFeed” launched a new set of features called “Replize.” Now socialmedian users can track conversations on the service, much in the same way that users... |
| 04.09.2008 | socialmedian Launches First Major Upgrade | socialmedian, which has come under fire as of late for trying to use Twitter as means of raising $500,000 in venture funding, announced Thursday that it has launched its first major upgrade since the company started and its improvements wil... |
| 01.09.2008 | Hurricane Gustav on the Web: A Reference Guide for Our Readers | On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we watch as Hurricane Gustav once again batters the Gulf Shore. Today, many of us are glued to both the TV and the web to keep track of the ongoing coverage of the storm. Beyond just traditiona... |
| 21.08.2008 | Fwix Gives Your City Its Own News Feed | In the last year, we’ve covered well over a dozen activity aggregators, nearly all of which share a single goal: helping you keep track of your friends’ exploits across the web.
Today, we see the launch of Fwix, an aggregator that is taking... |
| 20.08.2008 | Social Median Disregards 75 Years Of Securities Regulations With Sale Of Stock On Twitter | SocialMedian founder Jason Goldberg wrote a Twitter message moments ago letting people know that they are raising a new round of funding, up to $500k, and to contact him if you’re interested. Great way to get investors, right? Exactly not –... |
| 19.08.2008 | NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source | NewsCred, the news aggregator that ranks stories by the credibility of their source, has launched to the public. Instead of relying on popularity as many social news sites do, NewsCred instead allows users to rate each story, author, and pu... |
| 07.08.2008 | Regator, The Social Blog Aggregator, Launches To The Public | Regator, the blog aggregator that acts like a mix between a standard RSS reader and Digg, has launched in public beta.
We initially covered Regator in July when the site launched in a limited private beta. At the time my biggest concern was... |
| 01.08.2008 | Eight Ways to Get Users to Fill Out Their Profiles | “Hi, my name is MrCucumber69, I have a gray blob for a face and that’s all I care to share about myself – will you be my friend?” Silly as that sounds, this is the way users of many social web applications greet each other. It’s not very us... |
| 30.07.2008 | Socialmedian Brings A New Take On News Filtering | There is no shortage of social news aggregators looking to help users cut through the noise on the web. Digg is by far the most popular, with similar offerings from Reddit, Newsvine, and a host of others. Today, Socialmedian (not to be conf... |
| 30.07.2008 | Socialmedian Launches Open Beta: Personalize Your News Filter | After 4 months of private, invite-only alpha testing, social news network Socialmedian is now open and available in a public beta. During the last 4 months, Socialmedian has taken its motto of shipping fast and iterating faster quite seriou... |
| 13.05.2008 | Too Many Choices, Too Much Content | Sometimes it’s just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers... |
| 20.04.2008 | Social|median: Personalized News Filter – 1000 Invites | Over the past couple of months, Jason Goldberg, who previously founded job search engine Jobster and vacated the CEO role last December to “pursue other early stage ventures,” has quietly relaunched his personal blog social|median and trans... |
| 04.02.2008 | Roundup: More Yahoos head to startups, VCs feeling low, and more | Here’s the latest action:
1. Yahoo ad and IM leaders head to successful startups
2. VC’s confidence at a four-year low
3. Intel launches chip intended for larger-than-a-cell-phone portable devices
4. Ex-Jobster chief executive Jason Goldber... |