Startup wants to find the next Matt Drudge Socialmedian’s Jason Goldberg is trying to create, in his words the “second-generation social news site.” Think Digg meets FriendFeed meets Drudge Report. The first generation social news sites were like Digg, which were about the popularity of news sites, said Jason, in this Vator Talks interview with Ezra Roizen and me. Socialmedian, which raised some $600,000 of which $250,000 came from the Washington Post, is set out to make news more personalized, so people can get highly-personalized news that fits their “information DNA," he said.  The method through which people learn about what other people find relevant to particular topics is through submissions. Think Digg that’s divided into topics, such as “social networking,” and “venture capital” or just about anything. ... [ Read more ]