Pearltrees lands $1.6M more for social discovery on the Web | Ve. Pearltrees, a social tool for discovering and organizing Web content, has announced it secured a second round of funding for €1.3 million (US$1.6 million). The funding will be used to expand globally, especially in the US. Pearltrees is a free online social network that allows users to tag (or “pearl,” in the site’s parlance) content on the Web and share it with others who have similar interests. Users create pearltrees which house the individual pearls, or pieces of content, so that you can keep them all in one place. Other users can see your pearls and opt to stay updated on what content you’re finding.
You don’t need an account to view what someone’s tagged, but only registered users can create pearls or follow someone’s pearltree. Several other companies could be considered competitors, including recent DEMO company Pinyadda, whose offering gathers and organizes Web content relating to a user’s specified interests. Facebook: Feds should police our 700,000 apps, not us | VentureB. Facebook is hoping that the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Attorney General will bear ultimate responsibility for cracking down on rogue apps, according to comments yesterday from the company’s D.C.
-based head of public policy Tim Sparapani. He also said the platform is now hosting 700,000 apps (or 150,000 more than previously reported). Five Q’s with Timothy Sparapani, Facebook from Rob Haralson on Vimeo. Sparapani said: “Who’s in charge of making sure these applications do exactly what they say they’re supposed to do? One of the very interesting questions confronting companies like Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Google is how they police ecosystems involving hundreds of thousands of applications every single day. Each company has its own style of regulation.
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