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Submitted by Louisgray
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Former Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg sold SocialMedian, the social news startup he founded last year, to German social network Xing for $4 million and a earnout worth as much as $3.5 million.In March, SocialMedian announced a seed round from the Washington Post's interactive division.TechCrunch reported the deal first, we're t (Read More)
Dec 20, 2008
: Hi,if you chaps want to monitize Xing - see www.getmobster.com - using MoiP and offering cheap mobile calling to business users. Dial tone on your mobile is a world first. 
Dec 21, 2008
: Great news! I am glad Jason's excellent work stands paid. In a Business World propelled just on profit motive, Jason's work must serve as an example for others to follow that entrepreneural creativity offers more than monetary profit. In the long run, we can bank upon internet related technologies for finding solutions of un-/under-employment problems. Perhaps 'relationship economy' will continue offering boder-less and unlimitied opportunities for those who can sieze these.
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ReadWriteWeb
Commentary on this week's management changes at LinkedIn implied that a shake-up was needed to make LinkedIn more like Facebook. As somebody who has used LinkedIn extensively and spoken to many people who have also found it very useful, this is a plea to listen to users and not the Valley cognoscenti. Sure, when Facebook wa (Read More)
Dec 22, 2008
: They are 100% different models - as soon as I saw some of the latest changes I thought "uh oh"...I cannot understand, with all due respect, why digital properties do not focus, refine, and monetize the very business model that got them there. I consult with early-stage digital startups, and 75% of them want to "expand into this or that"....when meanwhile they acheived 5MM uniques with their core business model. Focus and refine and improve what made you what you are LinkedIn!
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Mashable!
The latest numbers are in from Nielsen Online, and they conclude the obvious: Facebook is downright surging in popularity. The site registered a record 47.5M US-based unique visitors in November, up from 39.9M just one month prior. Top social network MySpace continued to hover around 60M, with an official count of 59.1M. (Read More)
Dec 19, 2008
: ask what the ad space goes for on either site, and via mobile. Facebook has myspace beat by a landslide on mobile and apps, that's why it's value is so high. See how Pandora.com uses it's mobile space to land advertisers.
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ReadWriteWeb
HTML 5 is the upcoming major revision of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the main method of marking up content for sharing on the World Wide Web. HTML's development stopped at HTML 4.01 in 1999, and since then web content has evolved so much that current HTML specifications are inadequate for today's requirements.HTML (Read More)
Dec 20, 2008
: cool... maybe this is the excuse I've been needing to finally learn HTML?
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TechCrunch
Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which was released on Thursday night, breaks out the number of searches conducted on YouTube. If it were a standalone site, YouTube would be the (Read More)
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