WSJ Social features articles in a tile format, which consists of a thumbnail image, a headline, and other thumbnails of people that have liked specific links. At the top left-hand corner, WSJ Social displays the total number of WSJ stories that you liked and saves them for later.

[VentureBeat]

Appelbaum also pointed out that SafeHouse’s SSL server allows people to connect to forms of encryption that lack perfect forward secrecy. “That means anyone who takes their server or breaks into it could decrypt all their previous traffic,” stated Appelbaum.

The Wall Street Journal reserves the right to disclose any information to law enforcement authorities without notice unless that individual or group makes a special request for anonymity. SafeHouse recommend people to use Tor to hide their origin, but Tor is not compatible with SafeHouse’s Flash-based submission system. SafeHouse’s website states “You can be anonymous by not providing your name and contact information on this page,” but Appelbaum called this statement a “blatant lie.”

[Forbes]

Arab news network Al Jazeera recently started a similar service called ajtransparency.com. AJTransparency has been up and running since January 2011.

[Atlantic Times]

As of right now, anyone with a WSJ log-in can get access the website. But for $17 per month, consumers will get full access to all of the stories and will be able to subscribe to the paper through the iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry.

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In 2008, The Wall Street Journal launched a professional social network called the WSJ Community.  But that social network was hardly noticed so now its back to the drawing board.

Slingshot built a service for News Corporation called the Daily Fill and also launched MySpace events for the large social network.  There are about 40-50 people on the Slingshot staff and the subsidiary has their own funding and operations.  WSJ Connect seems to be still in the planning stages but there is a “strong interest” in moving the project ahead.

After the recent Wall Street meltdown, you would figure that less people would be interested in financial jobs but now the economy is recovering.  The Wall Street Journal plans to capitalize on the economic recovery by launching a financial career website called Fins.com.

Dow Jones Ventures General Manager and former Chief Revenue Officer of Jobster Kevin Hatfield is the General Manager of Fins.  Fins is the first launch to come out of Dow Jones Ventures.  Ann Sarnoff is leading the project.  Before Fins, Dow Jones Ventures and IAC partnered on a website called FiLife which has not gained much success.

One of the biggest problems with Fins right off the bad is that there are too many job seeking website alternatives out there as of right now.  If I were looking for a finance job, I’d first check TheLadders, Monster, and CareerBuilder.

[via paidContent]

The Wall Street Journal reports that there are as many people making a living as bloggers as there are lawyers in the country. There is about 20 million bloggers in the nation of which 1.7 million are profiting from the Internet trend. About 452,000 people in America are using blogging as their primary source of income.

Three out of every four bloggers are college educated and most of them are white males that report above average income levels. Bloggers who are able to do it for a living successfully are about 2% of bloggers overall. Blogs that are able to receive 100,000 unique visitors per month have a high chance of hitting $75,000 in monthly income through advertisements and paid blog posts.

Even though bloggers work very long hours and are constantly finding ways to distinguish themselves from the rest of the herd, most of them report that they are overwhelmingly happy.

What makes blogging such an attraction is the low cost to entry and no barriers to entry. To a certain extend, writing your opinion about anything you want is backed by the First Amendment’s freedom of speech and freedom of the press. So far blogs have been doing okay in surviving the recession, but it is rather ambiguous what will happen when professional bloggers lose work. Will they be covered by unemployment and whether they are covered as journalists under shield laws?

Regardless the numbers are extremely staggering. The kind of money that can be made by just typing words on a computer and publishing it on an independent website is staggering. It will be amazing to see where blogging technology takes us from here.

Other major publications that have built an application for the mobile device includes Bloomberg, CNN, and The New York Times.  None of these charge to use the application so The Wall Street Journal had to remain competitive too.

The videos and streaming radio that is available through The Wall Street Journal application connects to the built-in YouTube application on the iPhone.

[via Wired]

In response to the Google missing revenue expectations for powering contextual ads on MySpace, Murdoch stated “It’s going fine. They knew they wouldn’t make the $300 million the first year, and they wouldn’t make it the next year, and by the third year they’ll be very close. But take a look at the market out there. If they didn’t renew, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) would be out there in a minute with a big check.”

Last year, WSJ.com has about 2 million paper subscribers and about 1.1 million online subscribers.  WSJ.com was started in 1996.  The last time WSJ.com had a design change was in 2006.  And that was the first time WSJ had ads on their sites.