Testing apnews.com story blog to wordpress blog

Apnews.com can change citizen journalism as we know it. I am sharing this news article from iPhone using apnews.com.
Update: added pictures using browser client.
User interface optimized for publishing and sharing news stories will win.

Midwest copes with floods, East warned of heat Announced on WWDC. [...]

Big social media opportunity lies in increasing the size of creators.

It's always refreshing to see  good discussion on the big picture. Fred Wilson started this thread sharing his social media vision.
"every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet."

This vision is brilliant in it's simplicity but it's a big shift in the grand scheme [...]

Six Apart matches Akismet offer. Announces AntiSpam plugin.

Competition is a good thing for end users. Innovations in key blog authoring tools had hit a slow patch. Things are beginning to look different now.
Today Six Apart announced TypePad AntiSpam plugin for both TypPad and Wordpress blogs. This is a great news and it should be welcomed for multiple reasons.
First of all it’s open [...]

Hate 2.0 in Web 2.0. Industry insiders time for little introspection!

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center,  shared key findings from his  organization’s annual study of online terror and hate. 

I feel repulsed by these numbers - 

(he)..attributes a third of the 30 percent spike to blogs and discussion groups that support terrorism. The rest is the material of age-old hatreds–40 percent anti-Semitic, [...]

Facebook decided to block Google’s FriendConnect

Charlie Cheever from Facebook has hurled first real bomb in closely observed attempts by  social networking platforms to "open up".  Data portability promise got first reality check of ToS violation.

Facebook spent couple of days brainstorming on Google's "grand design" and came to conclusion that it's better to block them right away. So no Google [...]

Comcast buys Plaxo - $150 million proof that media consumption is now a social activity

Finally Comcast bought Plaxo. We have been hearing rumors of this event for some time now.
It's equally fun to watch how Arrington is matching CNet on every news story out there. He managed to get most important bit of information. Price tag:
The rumors were accurate: Comcast will announce their acquisition of social contact list [...]

Why Twitter matters?

Twitter only allows 140 characters.
Average Google Adsense takes 100 characters.
To me they are yin and yang in the battle to capture user’s intention. Don’t rush into asking where is the revenue model. By the time revenue model becomes clear to everybody, Twitter will be another blockbuster story. It will be too late by [...]