Newsvine is Perfect

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J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Newsvine took the password protection off of its site yesterday and officially launched (my pre-launch post on Newsvine is here).

Newsvine combines the best features of a number of companies and products like Digg and Google News with great features like chat and blogging-style comments. The result is a perfect news site (note that new competitors, like spotback (mentioned here) are aiming to overthrow Newsvine already, however).

The result is a really wonderful social news experience. They are also planning on a revenue sharing arrangement with news contributors (we’ll see how that goes).

Congratulations to Mike Davidson and the team at Newsvine. It’s now a site that I visit at least daily.

FYI, Newsvine was mentioned quite a bit in today’s Gillmor Gang.

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