Now that the alpha version has been going for a while I thought I’d take a look at how news organizations are faring thus far. Using the new Find Profiles page (it is behind the alpha sign-in wall so I can’t link to it) I went through the World News and Business categories to look for major news sites.

Here is the reported data on 30 media profiles, ranked by number of followers (as of 8/4/10):

The New York Times has the most followers with The Wall Street Journal and BBC News close behind. Currently only seven of the 30 sites have crossed 2,000 followers but The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and USA Today are getting close.

You have to feel for The Economist, Chicago Tribune and United Press International down at the bottom of the pack. You’d think UPI could at least attract a follower or two from its own organization. To be fair though there are quite a few other profiles in the World News category with few or no followers that did not make the table. (For example Phoenix New Times, WGNTV and Seattle Weekly all have 0 followers as of today).

Time appears to have the most active profile. They are following 964 people (far more than any of the others) and have dugg over 6,000 submissions. They also made 29 comments; that’s a very low number but most of the other sites have not made any.

I did not see a main profile for Fox News in the World News section, but they do have a profile in the Business section (foxbusiness). In cross checking against the news sites in my posts on Twitter impact and Facebook Page valuation I also did not see Digg profiles for Newsweek, ABC News, AP, NPR, PBS, The Financial Times or The Guardian. I couldn’t find them through Digg’s internal search either; if I’ve missed one or there are other major news site profiles that you are aware of please let me know.

Some additional notes:

1) It is not clear yet how well using an RSS feed to automatically submit articles is working. In going through the various profiles I saw a lot of submissions with just one digg. It will be interesting to see if sites that auto-submit in volume will end up drowning out the select articles from their site each day that have a better chance of attracting diggs.

2) I did not include sites from the Technology category but several in that group have attracted decent followings including Engadget (24,011 followers), Gizmodo (17,546) Mashable (14,528), Wired (9,695) and Ars Technica (7,724). While it is not surprising that tech sites are doing well it is encouraging that some of the top mainstream news sites above fall within in the middle of this group.

3) Of the publisher profiles examined, only CNN and USA Today had not yet been customized with logos and/or descriptive text. Compare the CNN profile to Time:

4) Forbes has opted to create quite a few additional profiles covering various sections and topics, as shown in this partial list:

This may help to attract more followers overall since users will be able to drill down on the specific topics that they are interested in. But there is also a risk that Forbes will spread itself too thin and weaken the value of its main profile.

5) NBC is also taking a multi-profile approach to target specific markets, for example:

The market-specific logos all match so this appears to be a coordinated effort.

Now that the alpha version has been going for a while I thought I’d take a look at how news organizations are faring thus far. Using the new Find Profiles page (it is behind the alpha sign-in wall so I can’t link to it) I went through the World News and Business categories to look for major news sites.

Here is the reported data on 30 media profiles, ranked by number of followers (as of 8/4/10):

The New York Times has the most followers with The Wall Street Journal and BBC News close behind. Currently only seven of the 30 sites have crossed 2,000 followers but The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and USA Today are getting close.

You have to feel for The Economist, Chicago Tribune and United Press International down at the bottom of the pack. You’d think UPI could at least attract a follower or two from its own organization. To be fair though there are quite a few other profiles in the World News category with few or no followers that did not make the table. (For example Phoenix New Times, WGNTV and Seattle Weekly all have 0 followers as of today).

Time appears to have the most active profile. They are following 964 people (far more than any of the others) and have dugg over 6,000 submissions. They also made 29 comments; that’s a very low number but most of the other sites have not made any.

I did not see a main profile for Fox News in the World News section, but they do have a profile in the Business section (foxbusiness). In cross checking against the news sites in my posts on Twitter impact and Facebook Page valuation I also did not see Digg profiles for Newsweek, ABC News, AP, NPR, PBS, The Financial Times or The Guardian. I couldn’t find them through Digg’s internal search either; if I’ve missed one or there are other major news site profiles that you are aware of please let me know.

Some additional notes:

1) It is not clear yet how well using an RSS feed to automatically submit articles is working. In going through the various profiles I saw a lot of submissions with just one digg. It will be interesting to see if sites that auto-submit in volume will end up drowning out the select articles from their site each day that have a better chance of attracting diggs.

2) I did not include sites from the Technology category but several in that group have attracted decent followings including Engadget (24,011 followers), Gizmodo (17,546) Mashable (14,528), Wired (9,695) and Ars Technica (7,724). While it is not surprising that tech sites are doing well it is encouraging that some of the top mainstream news sites above fall within in the middle of this group.

3) Of the publisher profiles examined, only CNN and USA Today had not yet been customized with logos and/or descriptive text. Compare the CNN profile to Time:

4) Forbes has opted to create quite a few additional profiles covering various sections and topics, as shown in this partial list:

This may help to attract more followers overall since users will be able to drill down on the specific topics that they are interested in. But there is also a risk that Forbes will spread itself too thin and weaken the value of its main profile.

5) NBC is also taking a multi-profile approach to target specific markets, for example:

The market-specific logos all match so this appears to be a coordinated effort.

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Jonah Lehrer reflects on a new study over at his new blog:

The Liege psychologists propose that, because money allows us to enjoy
the best things in life – we can stay at expensive hotels and eat
exquisite sushi and buy the nicest gadgets – we actually decrease our
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Now, I’m no Real Housewives of NYC watcher. I prefer my housewives where they should be: In the house, making me a sandwich and doing my laundry, not gallivanting on the television. That being said, I am an avid fan of Countess LuAnn de Lesseps Billboard #1 hit, “Money Can’t Buy You Class” for the lessons it provides and the strong spoken word portion. Which brings me to this news item: Apparently de Lesseps missed the bus to the Hamptons and then got on it but got into a fight with the driver and then whatever. Who cares. The point is, at the end of the article, Page Six mentions that:

LuAnn will perform her song, “Money Can’t Buy You Class,” with cannons shooting out cash tomorrow at the Best Buddies benefit at the Hamptons estate of Jay McInerney and Anne Hearst.

AWESOME. Also, WHAT. Is this a joke? It’s a joke. No, it’s not a joke. Real money? Like, money money? Because this seems awfully like the scene in Michael Keaton’s Batman wherein the Joker showers Manhattan with money just before releasing deadly gas into the air. Point being: Countess LuAnn de Lesseps might kill us all. Also, fair warning, Countess LuAnn: I went to the Ke$ha concert last night and her glitter gun malfunctioned. Just a bunch of gas was released into the air. No glitter. I was convinced that we would all die. Because when you just see gas released from a gun, you get nervous. And that is not how I want to go. Point being, Countess, please do not upset Manhattan’s elite. Double check your money-shooting cannon to make sure that money actually shoots from it so that the millionaires can laughingly and ironically reach for it, as opposed to the desperate fashion that I would jump and claw my way towards it. If no money is released, it just sounds like a cannon went off and people will freak out. At least I would. OK, have fun!

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There are so many articles and ebooks on the internet discussing sneaky ways to get your ex back. The truth is that no amount of cunning will make any sense if your ex doesn't want to be with you. Wasting your time thinking of underhanded ways to get your ex back are a waste of time for you. You will never get over a break up if you are spending your time trying to figure out ways to get your ex back.

There is a lot of advice floating around on the internet describing how to get your ex back. Most of this advice is absolutely horrible. The truth of the matter is you should just go on with your life. If your ex wants to get back in a relationship with you, great. But, it should be when you are not consumed with thoughts of winning or seducing your ex back to you.

If you are actively trying to find sneaky and cunning ways to win your ex back, are you really psychologically healthy? If someone has broken up with you and has no desire to be in a relationship with you, you are fooling yourself if you take time out of your life to find ways to win them back.

There are so many breakups where one of the parties in the relationship does not understand why they were dumped. It doesn't matter if you don't have concrete reasons why you were broken up with. It shows that you have a severe lack of self confidence if you are spending your days researching how to win an ex back.

I think the best way to grow after the end of a romantic relationship is to take great care of yourself. Instead of researching ways to win your ex back, the best thing to do would be to research ways to make yourself feel better about yourself.

It may feel good to have your ex begging to come back to you. However, this is often a fantasy and not reality. Stop focusing all your efforts on trying to win back a relationship that is dead. The best evidence you need that your ex significant lover doesn't want you is the fact that they are not with you now.

If someone is not taking the time to be with you, call you, or commit to you, that person is obviously not interested in a relationship with you. Stop wasting your time, some relationships do repair themselves, but take your time and figure out how to make yourself happy.

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WePay, a Y Combinator backed startup that aims to take the hassle out of group paying, has raised $7.5 million in Series B funding led by Highland Capital Partners with existing investor August Capital participating in the round. The startup previously raised funding last December from an all-star roster of angel investors including Max Levchin, Ron Conway, Dave McClure, and Steve Chen.

As we wrote in our initial coverage of the payments platform, WePay is an easy way to collect, manage and spend money for groups. WePay’s platform based around a prepaid debit card system, which makes its accounts easy to set up as well as more flexible when it comes to setting up group paying.

WePay, which launched to the public earlier this year, of course faces competition from online payments giant PayPal. But there is a slight difference between the two platforms. With PayPal, your account is tied to your name, without any way to separate the payments associated with a group. On WePay, you can create a unique, FDIC insured account for each group. While the account is still associated with your name, but you can keep each group account totally separate from your personal transactions. Group money can essentially be kept separate from any individual accounts you may have. You can also designate specific individuals to have control over accounts.

From accounts on WePay, users can send emails with electronic bills (which can be paid with bank accounts or credit cards) and spend funds with a WePay VISA prepaid card, paper checks, or electronically. If group members don’t pay soon, the site will automatically remind them a few days later. WePay makes money by charging a 3.5% transaction fee (there’s also a different plan that charges 50 cents per transaction and limits you on the methods of payment you can accept).

And WePay is gaining traction in the group payments space. Payment volume grew 80 percent in the month of July, with WePay adding over 1000 groups in the month. Groups that have participated in WePay range from fantasy football leagues to group vacations to girl scout groups.

WePay’s co-founder Rich Aberman says that the new funding will be put towards marketing efforts and to hire additional staff. And Aberman says that the next step is to start encouraging other startups to incorporate WePay’s API into their services.

WePay, a Y Combinator backed startup that aims to take the hassle out of group paying, has raised $7.5 million in Series B funding led by Highland Capital Partners with existing investor August Capital participating in the round. The startup previously raised funding last December from an all-star roster of angel investors including Max Levchin, Ron Conway, Dave McClure, and Steve Chen.

As we wrote in our initial coverage of the payments platform, WePay is an easy way to collect, manage and spend money for groups. WePay’s platform based around a prepaid debit card system, which makes its accounts easy to set up as well as more flexible when it comes to setting up group paying.

WePay, which launched to the public earlier this year, of course faces competition from online payments giant PayPal. But there is a slight difference between the two platforms. With PayPal, your account is tied to your name, without any way to separate the payments associated with a group. On WePay, you can create a unique, FDIC insured account for each group. While the account is still associated with your name, but you can keep each group account totally separate from your personal transactions. Group money can essentially be kept separate from any individual accounts you may have. You can also designate specific individuals to have control over accounts.

From accounts on WePay, users can send emails with electronic bills (which can be paid with bank accounts or credit cards) and spend funds with a WePay VISA prepaid card, paper checks, or electronically. If group members don’t pay soon, the site will automatically remind them a few days later. WePay makes money by charging a 3.5% transaction fee (there’s also a different plan that charges 50 cents per transaction and limits you on the methods of payment you can accept).

And WePay is gaining traction in the group payments space. Payment volume grew 80 percent in the month of July, with WePay adding over 1000 groups in the month. Groups that have participated in WePay range from fantasy football leagues to group vacations to girl scout groups.

WePay’s co-founder Rich Aberman says that the new funding will be put towards marketing efforts and to hire additional staff. And Aberman says that the next step is to start encouraging other startups to incorporate WePay’s API into their services.

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Buying the iPod Shuffle as a gift, no matter if it's for the holidays, birthdays or just because is a unique and wonderful idea. This tiny music player, smaller than the average house key and no wider than a Tylenol capsule, is available in either a 2GB or 4GB memory capacity. This will allow up to 500 songs on the 2 GB and up to 1000 on the 4GB.

How is this small size possible? The iPod Shuffle has been designed so all controls are integrated into the earphone cord. Through this design, changing a song selection is as easy as pushing a button on the ear phone cord.

When buying the iPod Shuffle as a gift be prepared for numerous selections of this anodized aluminum cover in multiple colors. The iPod Shuffle may be purchased in black, silver, green, blue and gleaming pink. Since this is the first season for the iPod Shuffle, a there will be a limited number of polished stainless steel iPod Shuffles for sale in the market.

VoiceOver is unique to the iPod Shuffle. VoiceOver is the ability to have the iPod tell you the name of the song that is playing, the artist, the name of your playlist, and it will let you know when your batteries are getting. VoiceOver is programmed to respond in 20 different languages which makes the iPod Shuffle a cross-cultural musical storage unit.

Buying the iPod Shuffle as a gift will provide the recipient the ability to manage multiple play lists. Prior to the iPod Shuffle, many people crated separate playlists on iTunes. The iPod Shuffle has the ability to sync these playlists together. Once they are synced together, they may be downloaded to the iPod Shuffle and enjoyed anytime, in any mix using VoiceOver. VoiceOver helps identify the playlists for easy switching.

With VoiceOver's capabilities, it is now possible to have songs in up to 20 different languages all on one device. VoiceOver allows the different languages to play back to back without a glitch to the quality of the music. This is a very unique reason to purchase the iPod Shuffle as a gift for that special multi-lingual individual in your life.

The Apple Store has the iPod Shuffle in 2GB black, silver, green, blue and gleaming pink for $59. The Stainless Steel 4GB may be purchased for $99. The 4GB black, silver, green, blue and gleaming pink iPod Shuffle may be purchased for $79.00 from The Apple Store.

If you decide to purchase the iPod Shuffle directly from The Apple Store, a complimentary one-time technical support call is included with the purchase price. This complimentary one-time call must be used within the first 90 days of purchase. There is also a limited hardware warranty on the iPod Shuffle, battery and included accessories.

Buying the iPod Shuffle as a gift for the music lover in your life will definitely put a smile on their face. Check around for discount pricing just make sure the item you are purchasing is the original iPod Shuffle.

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Portable music player is possibly the best way to carry your music wherever you go, unless the chaotic wire of the earphones does not intrude your tidiness on the go. Developed by Dutch designer Michiel Cornelissen, the “Pod à porter” is a stylish neckband for iPod shuffle that lets you wear your music around the neck. Fabricated from 3D printed polyamide for a velvet-like surface finish, the ultra-light neckband elegantly accommodates the 3G iPod shuffle and allows easy controls, as the on/off button can be controlled through the opening at the top.

Featuring a simple design, the jewelry-like iPod shuffle accessory keeps the neatly close to your body, allowing clutter free music anytime, anywhere. The Pod à porter is very easy to assemble. All the user need to do is place the headphone jack first, push the cable through the opening on the side gently and attach the iPod shuffle to the headphone jack. Priced at $27, the iPod shuffle accessory is available in a variety of colors.

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When it comes to trying to find the phone number is sometimes easier said than done. There are reservations telephone number or information that you can call a cell number or the name of the owner. Unlike fixed-line residential and business customers that do not always according to the information available to the public his pounds on their phone data provider to the public.

When a cell phone, you know what s 'as annoying calls from numbers that you know works, don't or appears on your caller ID. These days, you want to know who you are talking about, because time is precious. But there are times that you need to find a number, or you need to know who is calling for any number of reasons.

Here, the sites of the national telephone registry can help. They contract with the mobile phone companies for access to user information. These data and the creation of large databases with names, numbers, phone status, and in many cases sun listed and fax numbers. These pages act as an intermediary between you, the customer and the mobile phone companies.

Of course this means they have to compensate with a fee for access to lists of the cost of his contract with the mobile operators, but this is usually a small one time fee that gives you access to a lifetime. The positions of the good will also offer a money back guarantee if not with the results of the query are satisfied.

If you allow the site to participate in the national telephone directory access almost immediately after the payment has gone through. This means that you can take time for their part, several devices can be downloaded in just 5 minutes. The other nice thing is the ease with research. Will give the name of the person whose number you are looking for and the results are displayed on the screen almost immediately. In the case of people with the same name, which you need more information, such as the position and / or address for you to approach results.

So if you're wondering how to find phone numbers are better paid, with a national wireless directory. These sites have compiled a large majority of over one billion the number of cells that exist today. They offer a fast and easy to find the information they need.

To learn more about national reverse cell phone registries and how to look up cell phone numbers click here

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