Feedster, the San Francisco search engine of feeds from blogs and other news sources, has at last gotten venture backing — though we’re not sure how much. The investor, the Omidyar Network, is known to support socially good causes and for investing relatively small amounts, but this space is interesting enough — including for VCs — that we shouldn’t conclude Feedster is becoming a philanthropy effort just yet.

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  1. Roundup: VC tax fails, Feedster folds, and more » VentureBeat said:

    [...] no longer responsive and the company isn’t responding to our inquiries, either. The company first got funding back in 2004, but we hadn’t heard much from it since last year. Considering the trouble [...]