openBLOG - The company weblog of XING
As any active member of the platform can attest, the messaging feature is one of the most popular and most used on XING. And although always easy to use, it has not always been easy to find a contact quickly, particularly for networkers who are very active and successful: they have had to scroll through their contact list t (Read More)
The Next Web
Today, Jason Golderg was named in the new post of Chief Product Officer at Xing, a business social network with over seven million members, and over half a million members paying for premium accounts. This follows on the acquisition of Jason’s social median ’social news aggregator’ By Xing, as reported by The Next Web in De (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
We launched Facebook Connect on socialmedian last Monday.
We had a 5% increase in TOTAL subscribers last week.
We saw a 30% increase in total pageviews last week over any of the past 12 weeks.
Developing... (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg
from Twitter:
BREAKING NEWS: State official says 16 killed in Germany school shooting, including gunman #fb #sm. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Earlier this week we ran a competition to win a free ticket to Google I/O, Google's conference for web developers being held May 27 - 28, 2009 in San Francisco. We have 10 tickets to give away and so we asked you to give us your feature requests for current Google products, or if the product has an API what third party app (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
HTML 5 is the upcoming major revision of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the main method of marking up content for sharing on the World Wide Web. HTML's development stopped at HTML 4.01 in 1999, and since then web content has evolved so much that current HTML specifications are inadequate for today's requirements.HTML (Read More)
TechCrunch
If this one turns out true, it looks like T-Mobile’s followup to the Android-powered G1 might be on the shelves as early as next month. Note the emphasis on “might” there - while there’s nothing red flagging it as false, we’re taking this one with the finest grain of salt we have to spare. Be i (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Socialmedian, a social news site designed to allow users to group around news networks, has been acquired by the German social network XING, a major international player with more than 6 million business users. Clearly, this is a big win for Socialmedian, which only recently came out of private beta:Sponsor"This is great ne (Read More)
: Sorry to join the celebration late @jasongoldberg, but well done. You have demonstrated well that focusing on the core, moving quickly and keeping cost in check lead to a path of sucess. Job well done, best of luck overseas.