Silicon Alley Insider
Location-based mobile social networking is just getting started in the U.S., and there's a lot of hype surrounding it. But will that hype turn into dollars?Research firm ABI Research predicts the nascent industry will turn into a $3.3 billion market worldwide by 2013. Where will that money come from? Location-based mobile a (Read More)
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Avenue A/Razorfish, a digital advertising and services agency, is set to announce plans to launch a media and entertainment consulting practice, banking on business from traditional media companies that are trying to broaden their image. (Read More)
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Arguing that technology has ensured that "complete privacy does not exist," Google contends that a Pennsylvania family has no legal grounds to sue the search giant for publishing photos of their home on its popular "Street View" mapping feature. (Read More)
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Some people think that Seesmic is the video Twitter. They are wrong (even if they are investors in the company—Mike). The real video Twitter is 12seconds.tv. (Read More)
GigaOM
Facebook kicked off their second annual developer conference in San Francisco this afternoon with a keynote by founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The overproduced keynote with too many words repeatedly incessantly, seemed like a lullaby sung by a nanny in language alien to yours. There were some who compared Mark with Steve Job (Read More)
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Businesses are focusing on the value an online community can provide to themselves, not the community.Most corporate-sponsored online communities are virtual ghost townsThat’s according to Ed Moran, a Deloitte consultant who just completed a study of more than 100 businesses with online communities. Not surprisingly, these (Read More)
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While things have been pretty quiet on the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) front (knock on wood: this looks to be a busy week), here's an interesting note on the legal side of things: According to Yahoo's own internal documents, reports AP, the expanded severance plan it announced in February would have cost M (Read More)