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Working diligently through the week, contributing reporter Greg Farrell from USAToday probably never realized that his actions would send an impact around…
The microblogging concept isn't one that settles neatly among a myriad of more intuitive platforms. Regardless, microblogging platforms like Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, and PlaceShout are gaining steam in the social media realm with or without you.
People who are trying to sell a house might make all sorts of small upgrades as they attempt to offload the property. And Automattic made the “small upgrade” of acquiring Gravatar just two weeks ago. Automattic’s owners apparently aren’t looking to sell, though - a report indicates that they turned down a $200 million acquisition offer.
If you have content on a website, all it takes to make that content an embeddable widget is a little bit of code, which Clearspring happens to have available for free.
So what if the real estate market is tanking? I think that’s much more interesting to read about than a break-even or everybody-gets-rich scenario, and some investors may feel the same way; Curbed.com, a blog that covers real estate, just received $1.5 million in funding.
We’ve been speculating on this for some time, but now the really big dogs in the media have picked up on it.
