Dec 19, 2008

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: 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 18, 2008

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 18, 2008

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

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 19, 2008

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)

Dec 19, 2008

ReadWriteWeb In the workaday world, it happens all the time. You get caught in a string of emails among colleagues, the thread grows and grows as everyone adds their two cents, and when the dust settles, you realize that you've managed to create a ton of good content. Unfortunately, you're now tasked with cutting and pasting all of that (Read More)

Dec 19, 2008

Rami Morante - FriendFeed Hamburg, Germany based XING, a global professional social network that’s strong in Europe, has acquired New York based socialmedian for an undisclosed amount. Socialmedian’s founding CEO Jason Goldberg is relocating to Germany and will be joining XING as Vice President Applications Platform, and the entire socialmedian team (Read More)

Dec 19, 2008

WebProNews - Social Media Facebook has updated its user statistics, which show that its total number of users is up to 140 million. Half of them are outside of college (which is significant considering the network's roots), and the fastest growing demographic is 25 and older. read more . (Read More)

Dec 19, 2008

ReadWriteWeb Socialmedian, a social news site designed to allow users to group around news networks, has been acquired by the German social network XING, a major international player with more than 6 million business users. Clearly, this is a big win for Socialmedian, which only recently came out of private beta:Sponsor"This is great ne (Read More)

Dec 19, 2008

Scobleizer The other day, Gary Shapiro, the guy who runs the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, dropped by and left a comment here. There were a few problems:1. My commenting system caught his comment in moderation, so people didn’t see it posted until I took it out of moderation right now.2. No one probably knows who Gary (Read More)

Dec 19, 2008

Submitted by Thestrategyweb from blog: Mit einem Überraschungs-Coup eröffnet der XING Blog seinen Businesstag und gibt die Fusion mit Socialmedian bekannt. ... Atikel werden hier nur geteasert! . (Read More)

Dec 19, 2008

Delicious/r00vi By Guest Author Scott Scheper of http://scottdig.com (follow him at @venturedig).When I think of Facebook and Twitter, I think of Preparation-H and toothpaste. Both are quality products. Both have their uses; but Preparation-H, like Twitter, is only needed at a certain point in life.Do me a favor and take a look at your Twi (Read More)

Oct 07, 2008

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: Apple co-founder (in picture to the right, to the left is Steve Jobs) Steve Wozniak warns that the iPod's days are numbered in an interview with UK newspaper, the Telegraph."The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one. Things like, that if you look back to transistor radios and Walkmans, they kind of die out after (Read More)

Oct 06, 2008

Submitted by Jasongoldberg from blog: What tastes better than chocolate and peanut butter?   Not much.  But, we think we may have found something.   socialmedian + facebook have now been brought together.   Check it out the next time you log in to socialmedian.... (Read More)

Oct 06, 2008

Submitted by Jasongoldberg: Here at team socialmedian, we think that this is how product development is supposed to work.Just last week we surveyed a sample of socialmedian users on a range of topics including potential new socialmedian features.Based on a user's suggestion, we included in the survey the potential new feature of enabling our users to (Read More)

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