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by robyn on February 23, 2006
Today's online visitors have plenty of sites to peruse. From bands at Myspace to the whole social experience at Mooble, users don't just have to choose one site to embrace. On SpamI recently...
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by pete on February 12, 2006
Like dating sites, David Beisel of Masthead Venture Partners, thinks that the future of social networking sites is in verticalization: However, I believe that there are other areas which people are...
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by robyn on February 09, 2006
Tagged got some VC money, $7M to be exact, in their first trip to the VC store. ;) Led by Mayfield Fund, a respected, early-stage investor with deep domain experience in consumer internet technology,...
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by pete on January 29, 2006
It'll be a sad day when families in the same home use a social networking site to keep connected, instead of family dinner. But, Phillip Lensen (presumably) has mocked up a parody dubbed Family...
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by pete on January 29, 2006
Riya is a much hyped yet to be beta-launched social photo sharing site. Their key innovation is facial recognition that lets users tag and discover people in photos. Mujnal Shah, the founder of Riya,...
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by pete on January 16, 2006
The rumors are that Friendster is on the block. But, they can't even sell for a fraction of what they've already sunk into it. Evan Williams, a guy that knows how to sell when the selling is...
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by pete on January 08, 2006
Kevin Burton pointed out that Google has started aggregating movie reviews for films currently running in the theatre. The majority of those reviews come from newspapers and epinions. I imagine at...
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by robyn on December 17, 2005
Add Internet Computer Services (ICS) to the long list of Web 2.0 companies that are receiving venture capital. ICS will launch a consumer focused white and yellow pages Internet offering with...
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by robyn on December 13, 2005
UPDATE: Thomas was kind enough to point me to the original list creator, Dion Hinchcliffe. Dion even includes runners up. His post is definitely worth your time. You'll find some new sites and...
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by robyn on December 12, 2005
-Looks like Disney is shopping around for a social networking site and has it's eyes on Friendster. Om says maybe they are bargain hunting. -MySpace has 10% of the advertising space on the web....
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by robyn on December 12, 2005
This site is in German, but I'd be interested in knowing whether or not you agree with the list here for the best Social Networking Sites of 2005: Social Bookmarking (Gewinner: del.icio.us)Web 2.0...
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by robyn on December 12, 2005
An interesting comment on Om's blog has a few tongues wagging. Randy at the RSS Blog picked up on it. I'm not sure I would have noticed it but it's interesting nonetheless. W: Think of it...
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by robyn on December 06, 2005
There's an interesting opin on Social Networking and where it's going. I believe that we are now in Social Networks 3.0. After a fair bit of excitement and energy around pure play social...
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by robyn on December 05, 2005
Social Networking darling, Digg.com, arguably the hottest thing to hit the tech world in some time, looks to expand just a bit very, very soon. If promises of new categories aren't enough, how...
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by robyn on November 17, 2005
Take Your Tagging, Blogging, Networking and Browsing to a New LevelFlock was released as a developer's beta weeks ago, and apparently I'm one of the few people who appreciate it. I've...
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