With 35M saved items per month, Pocket’s latest update rethinks sharing

Pocket, the service formerly known as Read It Later, completely overhauls how you share things across all its platforms.

There’s a Pinterest for that: A list of niche Pinterest clones

As soon as one startup hits it big, a crop of clones rush to cash in on the excitement. The latest company de jour to mimic is Pinterest, the popular visual-bookmarking site. And, as with Groupon and Airbnb before it, …

Wait, did Google just hire Kevin Rose?

At VentureBeat HQ, we’re twiddling our thumbs as we wait for official confirmation from Google that the search behemoth did, in fact, just hire Kevin Rose of Digg fame.

Our good pal Liz Gannes of AllThingsD reports that Rose and …

Use Pinterest to boost your site’s traffic, without looking like a marketer

Social media professionals have spent the last few months trying to incorporate Pinterest into their strategies. We are just starting to figure out the best ways to do it, and calculate if it’s worth all the trouble. In some cases, …

StumbleUpon reaches 20M users, over 1B stumbles per month

Social link sharing startup StumbleUpon has reached a record 20 million users, the company announced today.

StumbleUpon’s service lets people discover and share new web content based on a broad spectrum of categories. Users click a “stumble” button to discover …

Delicious team unveils new version of the social bookmarking site

Avos, the new owner of social bookmarking site Delicious, has dusted off the previously neglected service and unveiled a slick revamped version today — complete with new features and functionality.

The changes mark the first major updates to Delicious since …