On Aug. 10, Business 2.0 magazine published its list of the best Web 2.0 startups. See Where to find the world's hottest startups, by Erick Schonfeld . Click the "photo gallery" link to see their interactive presentation on each of these startups. (Note: I couldn't get that presentation to run in Firefox for the Mac, only in Safari.)
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From Business 2.0 magazine's interactive presentation on the best Web 2.0 startups. |
Why should news organizations care? Well, as I perused the list it occurred to me that there probably are many ways news organizations could leverage these tools to enhance the presentation of the news, broaden their audience, and engage people who are eager to collaborate.
Case in point: Muti. "Taking its cue from Digg, Muti focuses on news from South Africa and lets users vote the best stories to the top of the page," says Business 2.0 That made me think: Maybe you could start a local version of Digg/Muti for your town, city, metro area, or state?
There's also a text version of this list on Schonfeld's Aug. 10 blog post. Check out the comment thread at the bottom of that post for some intriguing discussion of the merits of these tools.
