Big news today for Embedly, the service that makes it easy to embed content from nearly any site on the web. Today the company is announcing that it’s raised another $450,000 in a round that includes Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage, Venture 51, Adam Schwartz and follow-on investments from Betaworks and Chris Sacca, who participated in Embedly’s $250,000 round last August. Schwartz will be joining… → Read More

If you’ve ever shared a link on Facebook, you’re probably familiar with the nifty preview image and text that it pulls in from the linked site automatically (it doesn’t always show exactly what you wanted, but it’s usually better than nothing). Most people never think twice about the feature, but when you encounter a similar sharing widget that doesn’t do the same thing, it feels a bit archaic… → Read More

When ‘New Twitter‘ launched earlier this year, it brought a slew of new features alongside its UI overhaul. One of the coolest additions was a new Preview mode — click on a tweet, and in some cases you can see the linked photo, YouTube video, or other piece of content in the right sidebar without having to leave your Twitter stream. There’s just one little problem: Twitter only shows embeds… → Read More