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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask) Editor’s note: Scott Edward Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker Corporate Law Group, a boutique corporate law firm specializing in the representation of entrepreneurs.

Check out his blog or follow him on Twitter as @ScottEdWalker. We are in the golden age of seed financing. Venture capital funds, seed funds, super angels, angel groups, incubators, and “friends and family” are all playing the seed financing game and investing early in startups in an attempt to land the next Facebook. Convertible Note Seed Financings: Founders Beware! Editor’s note: Scott Edward Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker Corporate Law Group, a boutique corporate law firm specializing in the representation of entrepreneurs.

Check out his blog or follow him on Twitter as @ScottEdWalker. Facebook Introduces Anti-Email: Social Inbox, Seamless Messaging, Conversation History [Video] "We don't think that a modern messaging system is going to be email," said Mark Zuckerberg, who was widely expected to introduce an email system at Facebook's press conference today.

Instead, the Facebook CEO was clear: "It's not email," he said. Websites Have to Get Better. As Anil Dash pointed out this weekend, arguments about the ethics and functionality of save-for-later apps like Instapaper and Readability have reached the same fever pitch as Blogger-vs.

With or Without Apple: Sparrow for iPhone Will Soon Get Push Notifications. There are a fair amount of third-party iPhone email clients out there, but few ever received the kind of reception that Sparrow for iPhone got a few weeks ago.

Sadly, though, unless you have a jailbroken iPhone or use a third-party service like Boxcar, you won’t be able to get push notifications for new emails from Sparrow – but this could soon change. Apple, in its infinite wisdom, decided that Sparrow couldn’t use the same kind of special push mechanism that VoIP apps like Skype use for calls and chats. You just shared a link. How long will people pay attention? The New York Times Digital Subscription. 25 logos with hidden messages – Amazing Graphic Designing tricks. Valley Boys.

It was June 26, 4:45 a.m., and Digg founder Kevin Rose was slugging back tea and trying to keep his eyes open as he drove his Volkswagen Golf to Digg's headquarters above the offices of the SF Bay Guardian in Potrero Hill.

This was the day Rose would test everything. Have online comment sections become 'a joke'? Gawker Media founder Nick Denton says majority of online comments have become "off topic" and "toxic.

" Gawker chief: Idea of positive online comments has become a jokeNick Denton speaks at the South by Southwest Interactive festivalHe said the bigger a site is, the harder it is to curate comment sectionsOne idea? Making certain stories only open to a few select commenters Austin, Texas (CNN) -- In the early days of the Internet, there was hope that the unprecedented tool for global communication would lead to thoughtful sharing and discussion on its most popular sites. Cheezburger's Ben Huh Wants to Break the News So He Can Fix It. You are what you curate: why Pinterest is hawt. Evolution of social media by Elad Gill (graphic courtesy of Elad Gill) Updated: The new hot social thing on the web these days is a Palo Alto, Calif.

Website wireframe. A wireframe document for a person profile view A website wireframe, also known as a page schematic or screen blueprint, is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website.[1] Wireframes are created for the purpose of arranging elements to best accomplish a particular purpose.

The purpose is usually being informed by a business objective and a creative idea. The wireframe depicts the page layout or arrangement of the website’s content, including interface elements and navigational systems, and how they work together.[2] The wireframe usually lacks typographic style, color, or graphics, since the main focus lies in functionality, behavior, and priority of content.[3] In other words, it focuses on what a screen does, not what it looks like.[4] Wireframes can be pencil drawings or sketches on a whiteboard, or they can be produced by means of a broad array of free or commercial software applications. Wireframes focus on: Uses of wireframes[edit] Low-fidelity. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay. Steve Rosenbaum is the CEO of Magnify.net, a video Curation and Publishing platform.

Rosenbaum is a blogger, video maker and documentarian. You can follow him on Twitter @magnify and read more about Curation at CurationNation.org. When is the social curation bubble going to burst? You just can’t move for social curation services right now. The biggest noise might be coming from Pinterest, which is growing like a weed — but whether it’s the new-look Delicious, Switzerland’s Paperli, shopping curation site Svpply, image service Mlkshk or another site, the fact is that almost everybody seems to want to help you save and sort and share the things you find on the web right now.

With this swirl of activity, then, it’s no surprise to hear that Parisian service Pearltrees — slogan “collect, organize, discover” — has just raised another $6 million of funding, led by local conglomerate Groupe Accueil. The company, which has been running in public since 2009, welcomed the injection of funds as a way to help expand and scale up its system for bookmarking and organizing, which is based around a clustered visual interface. And it needs that scale. With $2M In Tow, Branch Teams Up With Twitter Co-Founders’ Obvious For ‘New Brand Of Discourse’ Last June, Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone announced that he was stepping back from Twitter to again team up with co-founder Evan Williams and early employee Jason Goldman to re-start The Obvious Corporation — an idea incubator — the one that initially helped give life to Twitter.

Mission Creep on Online Reading Services. The new version of Instapaper integrates social networking, editors’ suggestions and a Web browser. The appeal of Readability, the online reading service, has always been simplicity. By installing the Readability browser plug-in, a user could avoid the distractions of the Web with the push of a button. Loud advertisements, messy interfaces and the rest of the Internet would disappear, leaving nothing but a single column of text on a white background.