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Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his social news startup Socialmedian was sold to the Germany-headquartered company. The Social (Read More)
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Als vor kurzem der Kauf von Socialmedian bekannt gegeben wurde, konnte man erahnen, was kommen würde: XING wird sich für externe Entwicklungen öffnen. Nun sind sie da. Zwei neu eingeführte Applikationen mit den Namen 'Xing News' und 'Xing-Mitglieder fragen' wurden inzwischen eingeführt, entwickelt vermutlich von Socialmedia (Read More)
: Hilarious. Talking about standing next to the guy w/ BO had me ROFL. I guess the good thing about Twitter is you don't stand the chance of getting slugged by that guy.
Mashable!
Twitter has quietly given some developers access to a new feature, Sign in with Twitter, which uses Twitter’s new OAuth technology to allow people to log into and access 3rd party websites using their Twitter accounts. Sound familiar? On the surface, this has striking similarities to Facebook Connect, the Facebook version (Read More)
Delicious/erier2003
Everything from Google products to blogging to online video to productivity and beyond. Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Friendfeed, and Delicious all got the How-To treatment. (Read More)
: I don't know if I'll read this, but I was just wondering if it comes with a set of Ginsu Knives. You can do just about anything with them too. O.k. it's a smart ass comment, but I can't help it, I spent an entire day on ff. What else would you expect? To be fair,I'll check it out.
TechCrunch
If you could search your friends’ thoughts, interests, and activities, would that be a better search experience? In many cases, it would be. Searching for restaurants, books, or movies, would turn up recommendations from people you actually know. If you are researching a trip to Florence, Italy, you might discover (Read More)
: There is just one problem most people would have with social search and that is the issue of privacy. Regardless of the intention, most people aren't comfortable with everyone being able to snoop around their whereabouts and whatever else they get up to.
FriendFeed hoffmann
With yesterday’s news that Social|Median was sold the start-up to German social network XING, CEO Jason Goldberg has cemented himself as the lead figure in what will surely be a case study in successfully developing, managing and exiting a Web 2.0 business. In whatever sequel there is to Sarah Lacy’s Once You’re Lucky, Twi (Read More)
social|median
I am thrilled to announce that socialmedian is being acquired by XING of Hamburg, Germany.This is great news for socialmedian's members as XING is committed to growing and developing socialmedian both as a standalone service as well launching integrated socialmedian services on XING, one of the leading online business netwo (Read More)
: That's great for you and socialmedian. Congratulations and good luck. I've begun work on a new social media blog set to launch in the beginning of the new year but now I find myself itching to write about this news.