ReadWriteWeb:
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, announced this morning that he's closing down his Twitter client Ginx early next year and instead focusing on an online local news project. We reviewed a "private pre-alpha" version of Ginx in February and called it a dud. Ginx had some nice ideas but wasn't terribly innovative and it's fi (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)
ReadWriteWeb:
Salesforce.com launched a social enterprise application here at Dreamforce today that will allow companies to create their own private, social networks and integrate with Twitter, Facebook and other social applications.Dubbed Salesforce Chatter, the application serves as a secure enterprise collaboration application and soc (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual cloud computing event in San Francisco. CEO Marc Benioff is delivering the keynote and we will be live-bogging the news below. Salesforce has had a banner year, reporting strong earnings yesterday for the third quarter, launching a new version of their fastest growing produ (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)
ReadWriteWeb:
When you launch a make or break initiative like Windows Azure, you better get it right.Well, from our vantage point, Microsoft got it right. How? In front of a sea of developers at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft trotted out a group of geek all-stars who showed how they are using Azure to do some pretty co (Read More)
TechCrunch:
If you’re on the hunt for a new job, check out our CrunchBoard. We’ve added nearly 50 new jobs from leading internet businesses in the last two weeks, including two jobs here at TechCrunch. Here’s a quick sample:Conferences & Events ProducerTechCrunch – Palo Alto, CAVP, MarketingEventbrite – San Francisco, CANetwork Engin (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)
TechCrunch:
YouTube has just announced that it has partnered with Univision, the United States’ most popular Spanish language network, to bring a selection of its content to the world’s most popular video site. The agreement includes rights both to short clips and full length content.Videos will be drawn from the Univision network, Te (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Reader engagement with blogs has changed dramatically over the last three years, primarily because of the rise of online social networks, according to new numbers released by analytics firm Postrank today. Postrank published an analysis based on metrics for signals like comments, trackbacks, shared links and online bookma (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Let’s kick off the week on a positive note: innovative startups in the U.S. continue to attract capital from investors, and in turn are doing their part to counter the trend of the rising unemployment rate in the country.Evernote, an information capturing service provider, recently closed a $10 million round while personal (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Did Facebook finally unfriend iLike? It certainly looks that way. Facebook is restricting iLike from showing people’s music data in their profiles (the songs and artists they like) or alerting them to upcoming concerts through Facebook notifications. It is not clear what music data specifically will be pulled from profil (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It’s my great pleasure to announce that I’m going to be joined by Steve O’Hear on TechCrunch Europe. Some of you may have noticed Steve’s work appear on the blog over the last month. Steve will be Contributing Editor, and will be working closely with me on our continuing coverage of the tech scene in Europe and acting as my (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At a UN-sponsored event today in Egypt, UN officials demanded the removal of a poster that alluded to the issue of Internet restrictions in China.The poster was an advertisement for Access Controlled, an MIT publication about the so-called Great Firewall of China, one of the first national Internet filtering systems and a p (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)