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“Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: CreateDebate 20-word Description: CreateDebate is a social network for debating topics you’ re passionate about. The community decides the best arguments through democratic voting. CEO’ s 100-word Pitch: CreateDebate is the answer to standard [...]”
via Mashable!

“Docstoc, a service for embedding documents in web pages, has raised $3.25 million in fresh capital from Rustic Canyon Partners, following an angel round of $750,000 that we reported on late last year. While Docstoc and rival Scribd tout their respective services as ways to share documents and engage your community – especially with [...]”
via Mashable!

“Morgan Stanley’ s Internet Trends report from last month takes a big turn from previous reports - the focus is nearly 100% on social applications and how they are taking over the Internet (Yahoo apparently read it). Key takeaways: YouTube + Facebook page views Google or Yahoo page views (and may be bigger than both combined) 6/10 [...]”
via TechCrunch

“While there are bloggers on both sides of the monetizing-of-blogging fence, there is no doubt there are those who take the route of running ads. Those that are using WordPress have a seemingly endless supply of themes to choose from, but not all the selections lend themselves to ad placement. There are, however, some [...]”
via Mashable!

“In just a few hours, Mr Steven Paul Jobs will be celebrating the sixth birthday of the iTunes Store. Five whole years and 4-billion-plus songs sold, and what has the Apple CEO and his team in Cupertino and beyond to show for it? 70% of the global digital music download market, says Eliot Van Buskirk [...]”
via Mashable!

“This is far from the first story about Twitter and its third-party search tools (Tweetscan, Summize, etc.) being used to create an incredibly positive PR moment, but since it involves one of my favorite bloggers and one of my favorite startups, I thought I’d make mention of it and hopefully drive home a few points [...]”
via Mashable!

“The echo chamber is all too real. Or too artificial, depending on one’s perspective of things. That’s what observers of the world of blogs routinely say when they see bandwagoning occur around particular stories in the realm of tech. They claim mass repetition. Redundancy. There’s a lot of beating the dead horse, some might attest. And, [...]”
via Mashable!

“If you’ re the never-leave-your-desk variety of geek, you probably also turn to your computer to bring you food. We hear ya; having to end that 3 hour long Wikipedia clickfest just to get something to eat is a real bummer. Here are 8 sites that’ ll make sure you got at least one of your bio [...]”
via Mashable!

“We often hear of the sweeping measures taken by the RIAA to combat piracy, and the flawed philosophy behind those efforts. We know that the association distributes ultimatums to those it assumes are infringing on copyrights, and that some individuals submit to such pressure to pay $4-5,000 to settle with the record companies. But only [...]”
via Mashable!

“Are you better at what you do than you were a month or two ago? A lot better? How did you get better? What did you read or try? Did you fail at something and learn from it? Does that…”
via Seth’s Blog