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[...]In developing the business plan for the Kindle, Amazon was no doubt influenced by the great success of Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) with the iPod: Proprietary hardware and proprietary file formats made Apple into the kingpin of the digital music industry. But what Amazon seems to have missed is the importa (Read More)
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Achieving beautiful typography with CSS on the web is no easy feat, and there are many limitations to what can done with type on the web. However, there are generous people out there that have taken the time to build tools and write tutorials to help you overcome these limitations and create websites with beautiful typograp (Read More)
Mashable!
So how did the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Facebook, and others get broken into and littered with inappropriate messages earlier today? It wasn’t residue from this weekend’s phishing problems, but rather, a breach of Twitter’s customer support tools. (Read More)
: "From the Twitter blog, “These accounts were compromised by an individual who hacked into some of the tools our support team uses to help people do things like edit the email address associated with their Twitter account when they can’t remember or get stuck. We considered this a very serious breach of security and immediately took the support tools offline. We’ll put them back only when they’re safe and secure.”" >> Different issue than the phishing
The Steve Rubel Lifestream
Twitterholic added a couple of neat features.
First, they now sort Twitter users by when they joined.
They also now sort Twitter users by location. So, for example, you can now see who has the most followers among San Franciscans or New Yorkers.
In addition, you can also sort Twitter users by the number of updates o (Read More)
Submitted by Mitchellmckenna
from Google Reader:
It’s the thing to say in the social networking world, isn’t there a service where I update my profile once and all the other profiles get updated?AtomKeep claims to solve the problem. They do support all the major social networkin or web 2.0 sites e.g. Linkedin, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and more.They are in Beta so sign (Read More)
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I've received a few requests asking about how recruiters can use Google to better source candidates or streamline some recruiting efforts. Since I was actually in the process of playing with some Google Maps mashups when the last request came in I thought I'd hit on some neat things recruiters can do with Google Maps. First (Read More)
Bwana.org
The masterminds behind Google are pushing an initiative known as OpenSocial which aims to connect many different types of web sites using one single API. One of the fruits of OpenSocial is Google Friend Connect which seems like a technology demo on the surface, but I’ve found a couple of possibly useful gems to utilize. F (Read More)
: Is it just me? Most sites want to be social? I never heard this. Why would a web site want to give its CRM data to Google or facebook or anyone else? Why do people want to give their personnel data to a vendor? Is it just me? Why do I want to be a walking billboard for a company?
: Well thats funny cause I don't like Twitter. : P Not because it's a bad site (not all like that), it's just that..it's only a status update. Much like how when I log into my facebook I write: "Derek like goats" into my status...then all of my friends list can see that and comment on it they so desire. As well, they can see my photos, videos, groups....etc. Twitter is JUST the status update. SWo if Facebook even aquired Twitter it would be like pouring a glass of water into a bath full of water already. It's a great site...just not my kinda site. I got tired of it REALLY fast.
Digg RSS News Search for linkedin
Many folks involved in social media are so ADD driven to the latest social network, they fail to fully explore and make use of the networks that they are already part of. Enter LinkedIn, a haven for professional networking with an executive representation of all of the Fortune 500 companies. LinkedIn has a lot to offer rega (Read More)
Ranjani Ravi - FriendFeed
PitchEngine - The emergence of the social media release (SMR) will soon dominate in interactions between journalists and PR people. Those who do not take the initiative to learn about the “new press release” will get left behind. My favorite tool to date is PitchEngine. Still in beta stage, PitchEngine offers a full suite o (Read More)
paidContent.org
Business social networking software firm Telligent has received a big $20 million from Intel Capital, the venture arm of Intel (NSDQ: INTC). The Dallas, TX-based company has completed an initial tranche with Intel, with the remainder of its stake to be acquired within 12 months subject to certain closing conditions. The com (Read More)
Mashable!
Google Reader is a great service, but it would be nice to know when you have new unread items as opposed to always going to the tab, or being disappointed to find out it’s only your least favorite feed that’s been updated. There are numerous Firefox extensions that can help you with these issues, and even help (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Video: socialmedian founder discusses keeping it small, lessons learned as startup ceo.After raising $50 million for Jobster, Jason Goldberg decided to fund his new startup socialmedian in a very different way. "The biggest lesson I’ve learned when it comes to financing companies is to keep your startup small and keep it re (Read More)
A VC
Is about $14.8bn according to the publicly available information about the most recent financings of the two companies ($15bn for Facebook and $200mm for Automattic).
But consider this comscore chart of unique visitors over the past year.
It's a very similar growth trajectory, driven largely by the same phenomenon - the (Read More)
: I disagree with the statement that Facebook is for kids. Although the majority of the users probably are under 25 or even 22, I see an ever-increasing number of 'adults' like myself who are using it not only for social connections but also for business networking. For me, LinkedIn is still the premier business network, but Facebook is a very good add-on.
: Penny for my thought I agree with David and don’t forget it was the b strategy of Face book to go after the segment of user class of people I see a huge spike but then loss of interest like many so far outside Linked In (hResume Micro format) ~ well time will tell if the innovation will continue or be shelved for software companies distribution interest. Well and looking at that…I can see why FB is valued at the value….NOW switching companies. I have a hard time with the slide.com valuation…thoughts?