»  New Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal discusses fundraising, profits and reasons for Gina Bianchini’s departure. [peHUB]

»  A look at budding online news ventures in Seattle. [seattlepi.com]

»  Facebook experiments with QR codes, which can store links, video, photos and text [TechCrunch]

»  Hate groups, including violent, terrorist and homophobic ones, have grown across social nets by 20 percent in 2009. [ars technica]

»  Entrepreneurs (still) question the value of social media. [WSJ]

»  Why Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) researcher Bill Buxton says devices need to “play nice” with each other. [Beyond Binary]