Bottlenose is a social media dashboard that makes sense of the stream (invites)

“The stream is the next big problem after the cloud,” Nova Spivack, co-founder of Bottlenose, told VentureBeat.

In other words, you’re about to get flooded with social media updates from your gazillions of online “friends” — if you aren’t already.

Spivack’s response to this so-called “Sharepocalypse,” or the new era of social network insanity, is Bottlenose. It’s a social media dashboard for the professional who needs to be constantly in-the-know — or for hyper-obsessed social … Continue Reading

The Daily Dot wants to be a small town paper for the entire Internet

The biggest hurdle to enjoying The Daily Dot, a fun new online news site that launches today, is that its premise is based on a bad metaphor: The Internet is a community and The Daily Dot is its local paper.

The Daily Dot is an online-only news outlet that reports on the colorful goings-on in virtual “communities” such as Reddit, Tumblr, 4chan and Twitter. The startup was founded by serial entrepreneur Nova Spivack and CEO … Continue Reading