Veritocracy will come out of private beta sometime before March 24th [edit: it happened later today...], when founder Lee Hoffman is scheduled to present the social news recommendation site at Web2NewYork March.

Two weeks after presenting TurnTo at Web2NewYork, founder George Eberstadt was at the OnMedia conference. Eberstadt’s ‘trusted reference system’ went live late last year with fourteen partner sites.

Before arriving in New York for his opening keynote at AlwaysOn OnMedia, Tim Draper attended the Alfalfa Club Dinner in Washington.

Jonah Keegan’s Feedback Forum gives startups the opportunity to hear some outsider perspectives on their business models. Monday John Wagner submitted Public Chalk for dissection.

Ty Ahmad Taylor, one of the speakers at this week’s Future TV Show, sees opportunity in search verticals with social layers on top of them. The former product developer at Comcast and MTV is working on his own startup Snap Scores.

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