Pheed Wants to Take On the Giants of Social Media

Is there room for another social network? A new startup, Pheed, certainly hopes so.

Pheed is trying to court users of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest. And it's got some powerful friends. Celebrities like Miley Cyrus, Paris Hilton and David Guetta have already signed up for Pheed. Since soft-launching last week, more than a million users have signed up for the new service.

Pheed is the ultimate "mashup" of other sites, says Pheed cofounder and CEO O.D. Kobo. Kobo and his team "cherry-picked" what they liked best of their social media predecessors, and left out what bothered them, creating in Kobo's opinion something both significant and simple.

The site features a Facebo…
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