‘CNN Trends’ shows why Zite was a good purchase for CNN

CNN's $20 million acquisition of Zite bore its first fruit today with the launch of new news curation feature CNN Trends.

Friendster’s founder ditches social networks for social news

Jonathan Abrams' new startup, Nuzzel, is a slick, well-designed social news aggregator that pulls together all the hot stories from your Twitter feed.

StumbleUpon’s new Explore Box adds search engine functionality to web surfing

StumbleUpon debuted a new “Explore Box” feature today that lets you find community-endorsed content when typing in a specific word or search term.

No longer are people restricted from searching content within a set of about 500 topics, which was …