AudioBoo Offers Its DNA As An API
To stave of growing competition in social sound-sharing, AudioBoo is now offering third parties an application programming interface they ca… Read more »
Google And Twitter Step In To Let Egyptians Tweet By Voice
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Twitter have launched a service to allow people in Egypt to send Twitter messages by leaving a voicemail on a specif… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Twitter Adds Five New Content Partners
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Twitter, which has been trying to get people to use Twitter.com instead of third-party Twitter clients, is now adding additional third-party… Read more »
Tomkins Times – How One Indie Football Blogger Made A ‘Paywall’ Work
Ashley Norris is CEO of branded content advisory Sutro Digital and director of Anorak Publishing, including the Whoateallthepies.tv soccer b… Read more »
Yammer Raises $25 Million As It Prepares For A Big Expansion
Yammer, the so-called Twitter for businesses, has raised $25 million in third round of funding. The big investment comes as the service, whi… Read more »
Yahoo To Offer A Facebook Connect-Like Service
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It looks like Yahoo’s “social strategy” is going to go beyond integrating third-party services like Facebook and Twitter across its sites. T… Read more »
VideoJug Tries Being Demand Media With New User-Authored How-To Site
Over the last couple of years, VideoJug has done a good job of making a repository of professionally-produced video guides to things like se… Read more »
Google’s URL Shortener Launches As A Stand-Alone Service
Google’s URL shortener, which, to date, has been closely tied to its existing products, is now debuting as a stand-alone service. The compan… Read more »
Video: Twitter’s Dick Costolo On New Twitter, Cracking The Ad Code And More
I spent a little time on a trip to Beverly Hills interviewing a stand-up comic, a human Magic 8 Ball and a guy with one of the hottest — an… Read more »
Twitter Transforms On The Web; Adds A Second Pane With Photos And More
Your Twitter stream — on Twitter.com — is getting a completely new look. The company just announced an overhaul of its site that adds a se… Read more »
MySpace Lets Users Sync Profiles With Facebook
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Almost a year after reports first came out that Facebook and MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) were working on a deal that would let MySpace users share c… Read more »
Confirmed: Facebook Buys ‘Real-Time’ Startup Hot Potato
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Facebook has confirmed that it has bought up Hot Potato, a startup behind a service that lets users communicate about activities they are do… Read more »
Twitter Adds Its Own Sharing Button
Twitter is launching a Tweet button that publishers will be able to add to their sites so visitors can share content on the social net. The… Read more »
Google To Halt Development Of Google Wave, Citing Low Adoption
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Add Wave to Lively, Jaiku, Dodegball, Mashup, Nexus One and Notebook — all products that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has given up on. The company,… Read more »
Limelight Acquires Cloud-Based Video Platform Delve Networks
Content delivery network Limelight Networks has bought Delve Networks, a company that runs cloud-based video publishing and analytics servic… Read more »
Twitter Makes It Easier To Find People To Follow
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Twitter’s latest move to keep users engaged on its site: a new tool that suggests other members users might want to follow “based on several… Read more »
Facebook Buys Travel Review Site Nextstop
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Facebook is buying Nextstop, a travel review site launched a year ago by two high-profile Google (NSDQ: GOOG) alums. When we profiled the st… Read more »
Twitter Adds More Geo Data To Tweets
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Twitter is zeroing in with its location plans. The company says in a blog post that users will now be able to tag their tweets as coming fro… Read more »
TweetDeck Raises Another $3 Million For Its ‘Real-Time Browser’
Less than a year after taking a $2 million investment, desktop and mobile Twitter app Tweetdeck has gone back to its investors for a $3 mill… Read more »
A Purchase-Sharing Frenzy? Swipely Raises $7.5 Million
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At least two startups — and a long list of prominent investors — are now betting that people will happily put aside any privacy concerns i… Read more »
NileGuide Buys Travel Q&A Site Localyte
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Even more deal activity in the question and answer website market. Travel review aggregator NileGuide has bought up Localyte, a site that le… Read more »
An Over-Sharing Blunder Follows Blippy’s Big Round
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Here’s a serious lesson in the dangers of over-sharing: Blippy, the site both loved and vilified for letting users share their latest purcha… Read more »
Facebook Stops Serving Its ‘Lite’ Version
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Less than a year after launching a streamlined version of its site, which was designed for new users “looking to start off with a more simpl… Read more »
Yahoo Buys The Me.me Domain For Its Twitter-Like Microblogging Site
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is apparently still going full-force with its Twitter competitor, Yahoo Meme. The company has now bought up the oh-so-cle… Read more »
Williams On Why Twitter Is Launching Its Own Apps
Twitter’s purchase of Twitter iPhone client Tweetie last week, along with its launch of a Blackberry app, have raised concerns among develop… Read more »
The Twitter Stats We’ve Always Wanted To Know
Twitter has always been mum on some key stats about its service — like how many people have actually signed up to use it. But at its Chirp… Read more »
Will Facebook Be Next To Enter The Q&A Market?
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The Q&A market, which is seemingly getting more crowded by the day, may soon have a new competitor in Facebook. The social network is “testi… Read more »
Twitter Finally Unveils Its Ad Model
After months and months and months of speculation, Twitter is finally unveiling its long-awaited business model. Starting tomorrow, the comp… Read more »
Twitter Tries To Seem More Social With A New Homepage
Twitter — which is still trying to do a better job of making itself accessible to the new Tweeter — is redesigning its home page for the s… Read more »
Congressmen Call For FTC To Look Into Google Buzz — And AdMob Deal Too
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Nearly two months after Google’s rocky introduction of ‘Buzz,’ the sharing service remains under fire from privacy advocates; eleven congres… Read more »
The (Short) History Of Twitter’s Plans To Make Money
After being hounded for months about how it plans to make money, Twitter (finally) is set to provide an answer, likely at the company’s Chir… Read more »
Twitter’s Stone Teases New Details About Those Money-Making Plans Coming Next Month
About that Twitter ad platform that was supposed to launch at South by Southwest but never materialized there … Well, co-founder Biz Stone… Read more »
SXSWi: Twitter Proved To Be More Than A Social Network
I should have been at his party, the startup’s CEO told me. I knew I’d missed that invite. I tweeted it, he replied. It was South by Southwe… Read more »
Welcome To Microsoft Office. Would You Like A Microblog With Your Order?
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Microsoft’s experimental Office Labs group says it’s testing a new microblogging service called OfficeTalk — which “applies the base capabi… Read more »
HootSuite Buys Android Developer Swift App
Twitter client HootSuite, which recently raised $1.9 million in funding, has now made an acquisition, buying up Android app developer Swift… Read more »
Plancast Gets $800,000 For Plan Sharing
Plancast, a startup which lets users share their plans, has raised $800,000 from SoftTechVC, True Ventures, Founders Fund Angel, Zelkova Ven… Read more »
