mashable:
Social network Bebo which has seen a rapid decline in popularity but is still one of the biggest such services around, has added a tiny but important new feature: a button that helps children report abuse or bullying.The button is called the CEOP Report button, (CEOP stands for UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Read More)
paidContent.org:
German mag publisher Burda Media is buying a 25.1 percent stake in the business-focused social networking site Xing.com for a total of €48.29 million (£42.7 million, $71.9 million), making it Xing’s biggest single shareholder.Burda is making the deal through its Burda Digital (Read More)
GigaOM:
This morning news broke that MySpace, the second-largest social network that’s currently reinventing itself as a music destination, was buying imeem, a free online music service that has be remixed (and remade) more times that ’90s dance anthem “Keep on Moving”. TechCrunch, which reported on the news, didn’t reveal what the (Read More)
TechCrunch:
BREAKING: German media giant Burda has used it’s digital arm to purchase a 25.1% share of XING, the business social network that is biggest in Germany and competes with LinkedIn. The 1,323,041shares were sold to Bura by Cinco Capital, the vehicle owned by the former XING co-founder Lars Hinrichs. Priced at €36.50 per share, (Read More)
All Things Digital:
Going, going, gone: The last of the Web 2.0 music are dwindling away. The latest is Imeem, which in the process of being purchased by MySpace, I’ve confirmed.Haven’t heard a purchase price yet, but I wouldn’t expect much, given that this deal, like the iLike purchase MySpace made earlier this year, is an “acqhire” — News Co (Read More)
Mashable!:
Twitter, for all of its greatness, would not have significantly altered the landscape of real-time online communication without the swell of developer interest around its API. The simpleness of the service was, no doubt, key to Twitter’s meteoric rise, but Twitter applications – desktop, web, mobile – drove home the utility (Read More)
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Social networking app firm RockYou has raised $50 million in a fourth round of funding led by Softbank, TechCrunch reports (No official confirmation yet from the company, although it has retweeted the TechCrunch story on its official account). RockYou’s apps span all the major (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The New Oxford American Dictionary announced its Word of the Year today and like everyone else, the organization is keeping an eye on the internet. Its selection? unfriend - verb - To remove someone as a 'friend' on a social networking site such as Facebook.Has Oxford Dictionary made the right selection? ReadWriteWeb's Fou (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
Mashable!:
Speaking to a group of Chinese students in Shanghai, US President Barack Obama said he’d never used Twitter because he’s too clumsy to type on the phone. The question he was asked, however, was far more important than his typing skills. In China, many of the services we use everyday – Twitter, Facebook, MySpace – are either (Read More)
TechCrunch:
I wasn’t kidding around when I wrote that Rdio, the latest online music venture backed by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis – the original founders of Kazaa, Skype and Joost – was assembling a killer team by hiring away top talent from some of the most promising startups in the digital music space while still in stealth mode (Read More)
Mashable!:
From a Twitter TV deal to a new Google programming language, it’s been a surprising week on the web.Here’s our pick of the top 5 stories this week, from the serious to the bizarre.1. From Twitter to TV: Sh*t My Dad Says Gets CBS Deal – A Twitter account got a TV deal…has the social media and mainstream media fusion gone too (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've added a couple of more events to this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, a (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At the Web 2.0 Summit a few weeks ago, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta outlined the strategy for the social network to perhaps regain some of its former glory: the “socialization of content.” While MySpace may not be seeing major growth in terms of new users, the social network is gaining major traction on its communities that a (Read More)