Submitted by stevenwilson
from blog:
It looks as if the popular social site facebook will have a partner to handle its classified section by the name ofOodle.There should be an official anouncment on this partnership sometime tomorrow.In case you are saying to y (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Through a partnership that includes MySpace and Vidoop, an alpha extension brings OpenID management to the Flock social browser. It's an interesting approach to boosting awareness, but OpenID is going to need a lot more help (Read More)
Submitted by netxm
from blog:
Classifieds start-up Oodle will be powering Facebook's official "marketplace," the company said Tuesday. Members will be able to use it just like any third-party app on the Facebook platform--the only difference is that this (Read More)
Submitted by netxm
from blog:
With all the buzz about Facebook Connect this week, it's worth asking the question: Whatever happened to OpenID?The universal login standard was created in 2005 by Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal, while he was workin (Read More)
Gizmodo:
With Apple hitting the 10,000 app milestone, they've just released the stats for the most downloaded apps in a number of categories. And boy, they sure do prove that you people like frivolous, stupid crap on your iPhones. Ser (Read More)
TechCrunch:
As we speculated last month, Facebook is about to hand over its official classifieds listings to a partner, and that partner is Oodle, we have been able to confirm. An announcement may be made as early as tomorrow.What is int (Read More)
Mashable!:
Last year we featured over 100 web applications to organize every aspect of your life, from your belongings to your social calendar, and more. Since then, many have been significantly improved and lots of new apps have been r (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
After a fight with his girlfriend, J.P. Weichel of Loveland, Colorado thought he could blow off some steam by writing nasty things about his ex on in the "Rants & Raves" section of Craigslist. Maybe that makes him a jerk, but (Read More)
Submitted by rmorrill
from blog:
Image via WikipediaJet Blue has two approaches to the use of social media, external and internal. The use of external social media comprises Twitter, a pseudo blog “Flight Log” that has not been updated since October 2007, Fa (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
One upside of the Web 2.0 shakeout: As companies with great ideas or innovative tech start to run out of money, they can be gobbled up cheap. That's what MySpace (NWS) CEO Chris DeWolfe told a Reuters conference closed to out (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
To be honest, we didn’t foresee this: a backlash against last week’s conviction of Lori Drew. She’s the one who, along with a few others, used a fictitious MySpace account to harass a teenage girl named Mega (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
While OpenID is one of the more interesting online identity concepts, usability issues have clearly hampered its mainstream adoption. Flock, MySpace, and OpenID provider Vidoop have now come together to develop a browser exte (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We at TechCrunch expect a rapid expansion of the market for mobile social networks. And with the iPhone’s success as one of the main catalysts of the development, services like Facebook Mobile, MySpace Mobile, Loopt (wh (Read More)