Joost Continues Fight For Relevancy, Teams Up With Social Network Netlog

by Techcrunch on March 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Don’t count out Joost just yet. We recently wrote it still has a heartbeat despite the fact they made the wrong bet years ago by underestimating the power of the web for watching videos. They finally switched to Flash late last year, giving up on P2P, and introduced some social networking features around the video viewing experience to battle established ..read more

7 Ways to Cut Fuel Consumption With IT

by gigaom on March 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Let’s face it: The next-generation of transportation, governed by electric vehicles and biofuels, will take years to reach average users. What can we do in the meantime? Look to the tools created by information technology — cell phones, software, online mapping tools, social networks — to help drivers cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions. On March 24, in San Francisco, ..read more

Y Combinator’s Divvyshot Launches Dead Simple Group Photo Sharing

by Techcrunch on March 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Divvyshot, a new Y Combinator company that makes sharing photos between groups very easy, has just launched in private alpha. The site allows groups of users to share full-resolution photos collaboratively both through online galleries and using native clients that will launch in the next few weeks. There are currently 700 invites available, which you can grab ..read more

Twitter Is More Than Connecting

by Marketing Pilgrim on March 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments

By Patricia Skinner It has been said (too often) that Twitter is for connecting. And with over 6 million users it certainly is. But it’s for so much more than just connecting. Can you learn on Twitter? Personally I think it’s one of the best places on the net to get an education on just about any subject you ..read more

Yahoo Updates to Challenge Google Friend Connect, Facebook Connect

by Marketing Pilgrim on March 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Data portability: it’s one of those buzzwords that everybody just has to be in on these days. From OpenID to Facebook Connect to Google Friend Connect, there are more and more ways to use a single login and take your information anywhere on the web. And today there’s one more: Yahoo Updates through a partnership with JS-Kit. JS-Kit is ..read more

Loopt Adds “Friends You May Know” And Advertisements To Their iPhone App

by Techcrunch on March 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Social networks suck if you can’t find friends that use them. This is especially true for those social networks oriented around sharing your location; for the most part, you end up knowing where you and three other people are before you get bored and give up. Following a trend made popular by Facebook, the mobile social mapping service Loopt has ..read more

Loopt Adds “Friends You May Know” And Advertisements To Their iPhone App

by Techcrunch on March 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Liveblogging Facebook’s Open Door Press Conference

by Techcrunch on March 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Facebook is holding a two-hour press conference today to go over new products and the direction of the social network. Both Jason and Mike are there live, and we will be updating this post as information comes out. Here are our notes: We’re here at the Facebook press event. This is a two hour event. Facebook hasn’t pre briefed ..read more

Ex-Googlers Start Up Likaholix, A Micro-Sharing Service For Personal Recommendations (200 Invite Codes)

by Techcrunch on March 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Likaholix is a brand new web service that lets you share personal recommendations about virtually anything with the world. The tool lets you build a list of things you like and recommend with the help of a pre-populated database of items (think books, movies, tv shows, products, etc.) readily available and put together from sources from across the web. For ..read more

Facebook, MySpace Become Mainstream Marketing Vehicles

by Marketing Pilgrim on February 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments

By David Lindop Is it time to rethink who we market to on the social networking giants? What do you think the average age of a MySpace and Facebook user is? Perhaps 16 for MySpace and 22 for Facebook? According to AdAge, new reports from comScore suggest that over 50% of American Facebook users, and 44% of MySpace users, are actually over ..read more

China’s Social Network QZone Is Big, But Is It Really The Biggest?

by Techcrunch on February 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Tencent, China’s largest Internet portal mostly known to us for its hugely popular instant messenger product QQ, published an updated report on the user numbers of its social networking service QZone last week. The report was only available in Chinese, but the folks over at Web2Asia were kind enough to translate it. And if the self-reported numbers are not too ..read more

Reunion.com And Wink Morph Into MyLife.com

by Techcrunch on February 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments

When Reunion.com and Wink announced their merger in early October 2008, the company indicated that it would be relaunching under a different brand name and with a completely overhauled website in early 2009. That day has finally come, and henceforth the merged companies will live on as MyLife. The website for Reunion.com already redirects to MyLife.com, while dedicated people search engine ..read more

Why Social Networks Are Good for the Kids

by Techcrunch on February 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments

The other day I asked somewhat tongue-in-cheek whether Tom Friedman had ever visited Silicon Valley. Today, I’m wondering if Lady Greenfield has ever used a social networking site. The professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford and the director of the Royal Institution has the United Kingdom up in a tizzy about the idea that Facebook, Bebo and Twitter are ..read more

When Gmail Fails, Users Adapt

by gigaom on February 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Can technology users adapt to the relatively high failure rates of their favorite communications tools by skipping from service to service when one option fails? With Gmail down last night, Twitter traffic relating to the failure was all over the place. A quick (but obviously unscientific) peek at my Facebook page showed more messages than usual from my friends, some ..read more

B2B Buyers Dig Social Media

by Marketing Pilgrim on February 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments

A new report from Forrester Research, outlined by Groundswell, takes a look at how B2B buyers interact with social media—and by and large, they’re more engaged than their average peers. The report breaks down the use of social media by Social Technographic role by type of social media involvement (types explained in this PPT): The “Overall” column indicates what percentage of those ..read more

Mio.tv Picks Up Spanish Social Network Wamba For €4 Million

by Techcrunch on February 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Latino-targeting online entertainment and communication services provider Mio.tv has acquired Spanish social network Wamba for approximately €4 million euros with earn-outs according to various Spanish and Latin-American media. Considering the fact that the startup had raised €3 million from early Skype investor and serial entrepreneur Morten Lund back in 2007, this isn’t exactly a home run for the Spanish company. Nevertheless, ..read more

Online Research: Zotero Moves Into the Cloud

by Readwriteweb on February 23rd, 2009 | 0 Comments

Zotero, the popular open-source research and bibliography tool, just announced the latest version of its Firefox plugin (1.5b1), which now allows users to synchronize their databases between different machines, as well as a number of smaller updates that will make it even easier to create and curate bibliographies with Zotero. Zotero also announced a new online component to its plugin, which, ..read more

Bebo Now Emphasizes Lifestreaming – Updates Profile Pages

by Readwriteweb on February 23rd, 2009 | 0 Comments

Bebo, AOL’s social network, added a lifestreaming feature today that allows users to pull in updates from Twitter, Flickr, and Delicious, as well as from Facebook and Myspace. Bebo also introduced another new feature called ‘Lifestory,’ which displays your updates in a scrollable and zoomable timeline that is somewhat reminiscent of ThisMoment. With LifeStory, you can quickly create new events ..read more

Real-Time Web Comes Alive with Mobile Blogging Platform, Zcapes

by Readwriteweb on February 23rd, 2009 | 0 Comments

Zcapes is a new “augmented reality” application that lets you instantly transform any object or event into a mini blog using your mobile phone. But this is no ordinary blogging platform. Instead of focusing on publishing, Zcapes focuses on integrating streams from the “Live Web” into whatever blog you create. The end result is a Zcape page that taps into ..read more

ShareThis.com Aims to Become A Big Data Platform in the Next Web

by Readwriteweb on February 18th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Have you noticed those little links next to blog posts and news stories that say “sharethis”? Click on that link and you get a pop-up with options to share an article on Delicious, Facebook, StumbleUpon or other services. Did you know that ShareThis.com has raised $21 million from venture capitalists for its version of that service? If you ..read more

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