ReadWriteWeb:
The wildly popular nonprofit fundraising application Causes emailed users of its MySpace app on Tuesday to tell them that all Causes will be removed from MySpace on Friday morning, in three days. Causes was co-founded by Sea (Read More)
Mashable!:
This series is supported by Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Learn more about Grasshopper at Grasshopper.com.Let’s face it: as an entrepreneur, the odds are stacked against you. Most business (Read More)
Online Community Report:
We’re proud to be sponsors of Lithium’s online conference Social CRM on November 11th. The Social CRM Virtual Summit is a five-hour online conference, which includes webcasts by industry leaders in an interactive exhibit hall (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on t (Read More)
Online Community Report:
Last year, Forum One recognized that one of the key issues community and social media professionals face is that we (as an industry) are suffering from a lack of solid benchmarks, including compensation of online community an (Read More)
Scobleizer:
I’ve been doing online communities for more than 20 years, starting in 1985 when a friend had a BBS. One thing I’ve noticed over and over again is that chat rooms and forums start out fun and then devolve over time for variou (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by PartnerUp and written by Megan Dorn.In this day of increasing customer acquisition costs and depleting marketing funds, it feels more prudent than ever for businesses to find new ways (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Games, both online and on mobile devices, draw such an intense following that often there are fan communities and forums created entirely around a single game. PlayHaven is hoping to empower developers with the tools to creat (Read More)
Mashable!:
GeoCities may have been a relic from the 90s, but to many it was and still is an important online place for their user-created communities and memories.The Yahoo-owned service officially shutdown earlier this week, but one de (Read More)
VentureBeat:
(Update: This story originally and incorrectly listed EDB as the sole investor in this round.) A group of investors including EDB Investments in Singapore, Time Warner, General Catalyst Partners, and First Round Capital have (Read More)
VentureBeat:
EDB Investments in Singapore has committed $8.5 million to Boston-based ScanScout. Not everyone seems to know this: There’s a sort of Silicon Alley for online advertising based in Boston, not far from the Harvard and MIT R&D (Read More)
Mashable!:
Mashable and Demand Media’s joint event, Media Mixer LA, the official after party of the 140Conf LA, is this Wednesday, October 28th at the H.Wood. The event starts at 5:00 pm, directly following the 140Conf LA event.Join (Read More)
Mashable!:
This series is supported by Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Learn more about Grasshopper at Grasshopper.com.Whether your company is just starting out, just starting to turn a profit or alread (Read More)
Online Community Report:
The Online Community Platform and Services Satisfaction research report was published in March of this year as part of the ongoing efforts of the Online Community Research Network. The intention of the research project was to (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Drawing attention to a relatively unnoticed segment of social games, Watercooler has raised $5.5 million to expand its business of making sports-related social games and online fan communities.Watercooler has developed big fa (Read More)
Mashable!:
In the span of one up-and-down week, Twitter lost one of their most influential teen Twitterers in Miley Cyrus, and then almost immediately found new life in the tween market with the launch of the Twilight Twitter account. (Read More)
Mashable!:
If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might w (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
This past weekend, public media enthusiasts, developers, and staffers from around the country met in Washington, D.C. for the first Public Media Camp. I was there on behalf of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX.org), where I prod (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on t (Read More)
VentureBeat:
If wine can make “… every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized …” according to Andre Simon in the Commonsense of Wine, can it also make an online social network more fun, more witty, more usefu (Read More)