"Twitter hasn’t caught on with students in the way that other communication platforms have. These other platforms don’t really make sense in a classroom. For now, that leaves Wave."
As we watch Feedburner crash and burn even worse than ever before, Dave Winer has decided to put his money where his mouth is, so to speak. At the beginning of this month, he announced that he's building Feedsqueezer, a Feeburner competitor that may end up being the only viable option we'll have when it comes to feed management.
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Microsoft has paid $240m (£117m) for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the site at $15bn (£7.3bn). Facebook spurned an offer from Google which was also keen to invest the site.