Screenwerk:
Twitter’s COO Dick Costolo said this morning at the TechCrunch CrunchUp event that he felt the “geo opportunity” was “huge.”The location-stamping or geocoding of content and the release of that data to third parties (online and in mobile) will unleash a wide range of creative applications and expressions for local tweets. I (Read More)
Submitted by Gregbd
from Google Reader:
I wish my grandmother were still alive to see it. There it was, on the right hand side of the “c” section on Wednesday morning – yes, some of us still read the Wall Street Journal in paper form – an apology of wrongdoing and a commitment of time and funds by Goldman Sachs in an attempt to repair some of the damage. $100 m (Read More)
Debbie Weil's BlogWrite for CEOs:
New York, NY Had a two-minute conversation with Tim O'Reilly yesterday, standing in one of the wide, wide hallways of the Javits Center where his eponymous Web 2.0 Expo took place this week. I knew from his bio that he was a Harvard grad and asked him what year he graduated. '75 or '76, he said, depending on how you qualify (Read More)
PR Blogger:
Es reicht. Keine E-Mail mehr, kein RSS mehr in meinen Feedreader und schon gar nicht mehr Twitter oder Facebook. Manchmal wäre ich froh, so etwas sagen zu können, doch dann ist meine Neugierde doch wieder größer. Ich will einfach wissen, wie sich die neuesten Trends in Social Media entwickeln und kann auch nicht auf die Int (Read More)
styropor.digital:
Mobile Social Networking ist vermutlich einer der grossen nächsten Trends. Jetzt gibt es zwei neue spannende Plattformen:1.Bobba Bar – Sulake lädt in mobile virtuelle BarsBobba Bar ist eine virtuelle Bar für Mobiltelefone, und damit eine Applikation. Betrieben wird die Plattform von keiner geringeren Firma als Sulake, erfol (Read More)
TechCrunch:
For security nuts and enterprise clients, Cisco is launching an iPhone app, called Cisco SIO, to put Cisco Security Intelligence Operations in users’ hands. The app gives giving users real-time access to security information and also lets users create personalized alerts to show security threats that could impact their netw (Read More)
Mashable!:
While Facebook’s userbase has been consistently growing for years, its monetary value has been less than consistent. Facebook stunned the world in October 2007 when a Microsoft investment valued the company at $15 Billion. The recession hit Facebook’s value hard though, dropping it all the way to $3.7 Billion in February o (Read More)
Submitted by Mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
The latest HR Happy Hour is in the can and we've hit a cool milestone; It was our 20th show!! That's just nuts. Super cool for sure, but nuts! I guess you guys like us, you really like us! Our topic was Next Gen recruiting and our guests didn't pull any punches this time either. What can I say, we like controversy. But I th (Read More)
Mashable!:
Twitter’s translation project is rolling along rather quickly now. Earlier in the month Twitter launched in Spanish, and as of today, Twitter is now available in French.The company took to their blog and penned a post in French to announce the news, which lets users switch their language to French from within the Settings a (Read More)
Mashable!:
Back in August, The Huffington Post asked their readers to help identify the top game changers across 10 different verticals to “honor and celebrate people who are using new media to reshape their fields and change the world.”Today, after 1.7 million votes, the top 10 has been revealed, and our own Pete Cashmore has made th (Read More)
Mashable!:
Twitter announced it would be adding locations to your tweets back in August, and they’ve been making changes to their API to enable the functionality since late September. The geolocation functionality is now complete, and a number of developers of third-party apps who have been working on building location support into th (Read More)
TechCrunch:
In a couple of hours, Google is going to share more details about its upcoming operating system Chrome OS at an event in Mountain View that will most likely be covered from start to finish by TechCrunch writers (and then some) as well as a slew of other media outlets. Jolicloud, that other OS for netbooks that is completely (Read More)
Submitted by Courane01
from Google Reader:
This past weekend we were in New York city for WordCamp NYC. What a blast! Everyone we met was so awesome, and I gave out a ton of hugs. There was such a great spirit during the whole weekend, full of learning & sharing.Here’s the slides from our presentations. Our sessions were also filmed, so as soon as they are up on wor (Read More)
Digital Inspiration:
The Chrome OS team has a produced a new Common Craft style video that gives an overview of the new Chrome OS is 3 minutes.Here’s a high-res screenshot of Chrome OS.. ..and here are some Chrome OS screenshots captured from the press event:1. Chrome OS Application Menu2. Chrome OS Media Browser Cloud Storage - Everything you (Read More)
Submitted by Loucypher
from Google Reader:
Google gave its first public demonstration today of Chrome OS, the operating system it’s developing for PCs (primarily cheaper netbooks). It presented the demo via webcast from its headquarters in Mountain View, and it looked pretty solid.Although there’s been some hope that Google might launch the OS in early 2010, Vice P (Read More)