The Guardian:
Charging to read news content is like 'putting genie back in bottle', says Twitter co-founder Biz StoneThe co-founder of Twitter today warned Rupert Murdoch that his plans to charge for online content, and block Google from using stories produced by his News International titles, were a vain attempt to "put the genie back (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
Microsoft Office 2010 is continuing and completing the transition that started with Office 2007, and should be an attractive upgrade for companies finally moving on from Windows XP and Office XP or 2003. And with the free beta, anyone can try itDuring this week's Professional Developers Conference PDC09 in the Los Angeles C (Read More)
Mashable!:
David Spinks is a graduating senior in NY that is utilizing the power of social web communities to pursue a career in social media/marketing. He authors a blog at DavidSpinks.com.There is an almost overwhelming number of options on the social web for businesses to create and participate in communities. You hear a lot about (Read More)
paidContent.org:
With more people turning to social networks to communicate, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is adding a new feature to the next version of Outlook so that users can track the activities of contacts on social networks from within their e-mail inboxes. The feature—called Outlook Social C (Read More)
VentureBeat:
LinkedIn became the second of Silicon Valley’s biggest social networks to make a compelling distribution move this week. It’s landed in your inbox — quite literally if you have Microsoft Outlook.They’ve partnered with Microsoft to launch the Outlook Social Connector, which will deliver LinkedIn updates directly to your inbo (Read More)
The LinkedIn Blog:
Today, Microsoft announces an exciting new addition to the upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 – the Outlook Social Connector. The Outlook Social Connector is designed to seamlessly bring communications history as well as business and social networking feeds into your Outlook experience.LinkedIn will be the first networking site (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even all that new. Instead, the list includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Professional social network LinkedIn is showing a little Microsoft love today. In conjunction with the announcement of the beta of Microsoft’s Office 2010 at its Professional Developer Conference, LinkedIn and Microsoft have partnered to offer an add-on that integrates much of your LinkedIn contact information with your Ou (Read More)
The Guardian:
Filtering is keeping more unwanted messages from our inboxes – but provoking more sophisticated scams on social networks and elsewhereWhen Luis von Ahn gives talks on his work fighting spam, he likes to start by asking the audience a question. "How many of you have had to fill out one of those web forms that asks you to rea (Read More)
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)
The Guardian:
German magazine publisher Burda makes strategic investment in social networking site Xing.com 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 (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)
mashable:
Last month, we wrote about Coca-Cola’s Expedition 206 campaign, in which the company uses social media to pick three individuals to travel the world in 2010, who in turn visit all 206 markets where Coca-Cola has a presence. Along the way, the “Happiness Ambassadors” will take photos, make videos, send out updates on Twitter (Read More)
paidContent.org:
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)