Patch Hires Brooklyn Hyperlocal Blogger Zagare To Ramp Up Engagement
AOL’s Patch network of hyperlocal blogs, which has suggested that a number of initiatives are coming to increase community engagement with i… Read more »
AOL’s Patch Will Add Blog Posts From Community Members
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AOL’s Patch network of hyperlocal news sites is making its first major update since AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post last month, integr… Read more »
SurveyMonkey Buys Online Form Startup Wufoo
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Online polling service SurveyMonkey has bought up Wufoo, a startup that has developed a basic online form building tool that can be used to… Read more »
Post Huffington Post Deal, AOL’s Patch Will Become More ‘Social’
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New details about what AOL (NYSE: AOL) has in store for its Patch network of hyperlocal sites in the wake of its purchase of the Huffington… Read more »
How Netflix Is Hurting Youtube
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Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and cofounder of HDNet, offers running commentary on Blog Maverick and allows us to publish it her… Read more »
Bebo Tries Redesign To Halt Traffic Slide
Bebo gained only a brief fillip when private equity firm Criterion took it off AOL’s hands in June 2010.
Check out its traffic over the per… Read more »
Cheezburger Network Buys Know Your Meme In ‘Seven Figure’ Deal
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Cheezburger Network, known for sites like I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL blog, and The Daily What, is making its first acquisition since raisi… Read more »
MSNBC.com Relaunches EveryBlock As A Social Network For The Neighborhood
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MSNBC.com, which purchased hyperlocal aggregator EveryBlock a year and a half ago, is relaunching the site as a way for neighbors to share i… Read more »
EU To Let Consumers Erase Embarrassing Photos From Social Networking Sites
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The European Union is to enshrine a “right to be forgotten online” to ensure that, among other things, prospective employers cannot find old… Read more »
SCVNGR’s Seth Priebatsch: Facebook’s Days At The Top Are Numbered
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Seth Priebatsch unleashed 180 seconds of organised chaos on SXSW Interactive this weekend. The founder of business location tool SCVNGR want… Read more »
Resurgent StumbleUpon Raises $17 Million
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StumbleUpon, the content recommendation service that eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) purchased for $75 million in 2007 and then sold back to its founders… Read more »
Photo Social Network DailyBooth Raises $6 Million
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DailyBooth, a social network that lets users share photos in real-time, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding. DailyBooth users… Read more »
CrowdGather Adds $7.85 Million In Part For Forum Acquisitions
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CrowdGather, the very acquisitive community forums owner, has raised $7.85 million in a private placement by selling stock and warrants in w… Read more »
iVillage Launches App Network; Adds BN.com’s Gottlieb
For over the past year, Comcast/NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal’s iVillage has been overhauling its sites and expanding its international presen… Read more »
Social Network LinkedIn Blocked In Internet Crackdown In China
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LinkedIn has become the latest major social network to fall victim to China’s renewed crackdown on the internet, as the ruling Communist par… Read more »
Yahoo Is (Finally) Shutting Down MyBlogLog
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More than a year after Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) first said it was considering closing down MyBlogLog, the company is finally doing so. In a letter… Read more »
Renren, China’s Answer To Facebook, Plans U.S. Float
China’s answer to Facebook is planning a stock market float in the US, potentially making it the first social-networking site to go public.… Read more »
RatedPeople Raised £3 Million For Tradesmen Recommendations
Yet another way in which “social” online is powering real-world consumer interactions – recommendation of local tradesmen.
Where 4iP-backed… Read more »
UberMedia Raises $17.5 Million For Its Growing Portfolio Of Twitter Clients
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UberMedia, which has accumulated a portfolio of Twitter clients in recent months and is in the process of acquiring TweetDeck, has raised $1… Read more »
@ MWC: WAC Finally Goes Commercial; Looks Like Another Win For Android
One year after making its debut at Mobile World Congress, the Mobile Applications Community — the group formed to encourage operator-led ap… Read more »
Philo Chases Check-Ins Via TV Guide Magazine
As promotional campaigns go, it doesn’t get more counterintuitive than this: What better way for social-TV platform Philo to generate more c… Read more »
AOL-HuffPo: Arianna And The Free Blog Economy
Some of Huffington Post’s 9,000+ bloggers have already announced that they won’t be following Arianna to AOL (NYSE: AOL) – either unhappy ab… Read more »
SocialGo Network Builder Raises £1.3 Million In Share Issue
Ning-like social network builder SocialGO has raised £1.335 ($2.14) million on London’s AIM stock market, in a fund designed to finance the… Read more »
Reality Check: Social Media ROI Is Still MIA
One of the reasons I love my job is there is always something new going on. Given the volume of new business ideas and trends that I have to… Read more »
Twitter App Maker UberMedia Buys Social News Site Mixx
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UberMedia, which is behind Twitter clients like Echofon and Twidroyd, has purchased Digg-like news site Mixx. On Mixx, users post interestin… Read more »
Updated: MTV ‘Skins’ Strategy: Aim For Social Hit First, TV Hit After
MTV in the States has been heavily promoting its new teen drama Skins for months across a range of social media, including Tumblr, Facebook… Read more »
Why Two Sites Decided To Start Paying Their Writers
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We hear all the time about sites debating whether to charge consumers for content but whether to pay people to create that content is someth… Read more »
Seeking Alpha Will Pay Contributors For First Time
Stock market commentary site Seeking Alpha, which has depended on a roster of unpaid contributors since its start seven years ago, will now… Read more »
Social Net Builder SocialGO Needs More Money From The City
White-label social network builder SocialGO says it is issuing new shares on London’s AIM market in order to raise £300,000 ($466.93) for a… Read more »
Charting MySpace From Hot To Not
MySpace has done what few can claim to have accomplished so far this new year: cut its weight nearly in half by slashing close to 500 jobs f… Read more »
Paper.li Raises $2.1 Million To Open Operations In The U.S. And Asia
Paper.li, which lets users organize links they find on Twitter and Facebook into their own newspaper-style webpages, has raised $2.1 million… Read more »
MySpace Cuts 47 Percent Of Its Workforce
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As has been rumored for weeks, MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) is cutting 500 employees, or nearly half of its workforce. The social networking, which m… Read more »
LinkedIn Goes Down For Some Amid IPO Spotlight
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LinkedIn is apparently on and off for a significant group of its users today. That in itself isn’t news for us (after all, it’s in pretty go… Read more »
Habbo Hotel Sold €4.5 Million In Virtual Goods In December
Isometric teen online community Habbo Hotel says its tenth year was its best ever. In fact, it attracted €22 ($29.53/£18.89) in virtual g… Read more »
Sean Ryan Leaves News Corp. To Take A Gaming Job At Facebook
Sean Ryan, who joined News Corp. only six months ago, is leaving to take a gaming job at Facebook. Ryan will be be head of games partnership… Read more »
Tumblr Raises $30 Million In New Round Led By Sequoia
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Tumblr, which has become a favorite blogging tool for hip consumers and wannabe-hip media companies, has raised $30 million in a new funding… Read more »
Yahoo Hints At Selling Delicious — Or Giving It Away
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) won’t be shutting down its Delicious social bookmarking site — after all. A slide that circulated widely yesterday showe… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.15.10
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» Hearst and Hachette execs are set to meet in the next few weeks to finalize deal talks. But before that happens, it’s losing so… Read more »
Meredith Buys Remaining Piece Of Real Girls Media Network
Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP) has acquired the remaining stake in the Real Girls Media Network. Financial terms weren’t released. The publisher… Read more »
Social Net For Gay Men Fab Gets $1.75 Million More From WaPost, Others
Fab, a social network for gay men, has raised $1.75 million in a first round of funding from investors including existing backer the Washing… Read more »
