TechCrunch:
Angstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today the startup is launching Knx.to, a real-time search engine capability and API that looks up most recent social information about any of your friends, from th (Read More)
Mashable!:
Speaking at an event in London earlier today, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone addressed Rupert Murdoch’s plan to wall off his sites and prevent Google from indexing News Corp’s online properties. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he characterized the plan as a bad idea, saying that the speed of change on the web meant it would likely “f (Read More)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Mashable's Ben Parr has a post on the OPEN Forum discussing the pros and cons of releasing your product early and often:There is a famous quote by Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, which really resonates with some entrepreneurs:Read the rest of this story »See Also:Small Business Optimism Finally On The RiseHow To Boot (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Germany] Hamburg based business social network Xing, similar to LinkedIn in Europe, continued to grow revenue and EBIDTA in the first nine months of 2009 while profits were smaller than last year. Total revenues from January to September amounted to €33.2 million – or $49 million – up 32 percent from the same period last y (Read More)
TechCrunch:
MySpace seems to be on a bit of a hiring spree. Over the past few months the social network hired Mark Rosenbaum as Chief Financial Officer, Alex Maghen as CTO (he was formerly CTO of MySpace Music), former AOL and Tsavo exec Mike Macadaan as VP Product, and former Facebook Director Katie Geminder as SVP of User Experience (Read More)
Mashable!:
Earlier this week, LinkedIn made a splash when it announced that Twitter and LinkedIn status updates can now be synced. LinkedIn users could tweet from their status updates by checking a Twitter checkbox, while Twitter users could update their LinkedIn status by adding the hashtag #li or #in.While we thought that users wou (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Did LinkedIn more than double its U.S. visitors in October? A casual glance at the latest comScore data makes it look that way, with LinkedIn shooting up to 20 million unique visitors in October, 2009, from 9 million in September, 2009. The new estimate puts LinkedIn ahead of Twitter, which saw a decline of U.S visitors l (Read More)
louisgray-com:
That Twitter is dealing with massive amounts of data flowing through its servers these days would be an understatement, as the service sees strong growth and significant mindshare. With the company having passed what look to have been its rockiest struggles over the last twelve months, Twitter is now getting to focus on rol (Read More)
paidContent.org:
» LinkedIn is partnering with Twitter, so that LinkedIn members can send out their status updates on Twitter and vice versa. [LinkedIn Blog and Twitter Blog]» Some analysts say they don’t quite get Electronic Arts’ strategy in the wake of its purchase of Playfish and its big (Read More)
TechCrunch:
I corrected the headline for one of the articles I published earlier today about an investment made by Bassel Ojjeh in ArabCrunch.NET. Turns out Ojjeh is actually no longer senior vice president and head of Yahoo!’s strategic data solutions group. The man apparently left the company a few weeks ago but hadn’t yet found the (Read More)