The Al Jazeera Network has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson, where RSS feeds of its news content will be preinstalled on four models of its mobile devices in both the Middle East and North Africa.

The new initiative is part of the news organization’s development Labs in an effort to reach out to more readers through new media.

In addition to services like podcasts, a YouTube channel, Facebook account, an iPhone application and multiple Twitter news feeds, Al Jazeera recently launched a Twitter account and an interactive map of citizen-submitted reports to follow the developments in Gaza.

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The Wikimedia Foundation recently announced an $890,000 grant from the U.S.-based Stanton Foundation to simplify its very techie user interface for editing posts. It’s a big chunk of change on top of a new $6 million budget for the nonprofit encyclopedia, who some argue needs major restructuring rather than a simple cash infusion.

“Any amount of money thrown at it is not going to solve the problems,” said Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo. “Putting up a WYSIWYG editor will cost like $50,000. It’s not that big of a deal.”

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Recession–and social-network glut–be damned! Frank DeRose, managing partner of Ferrata Capital Management, plans to invest at least $1 million in Total Prestige, an invitation-only networking site for one of the world’s most underserved Internet demographics: the super and super-duper rich. The 15-year-old organization used to just be a Rolodex with 50,000 names–a sort of offline LinkedIn of the Rich and Famous doing introductions in all the nondigital ways. But it’s now catching up with technology and taking on an online presence with a social network that launched in September, with plans also for a global rollout of quarterly print magazines in some glittering world capitals.

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