Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on August 31, 2006
A friend referred me to OurStory.com, which allows users to upload a multimedia chronology of their life. The free service allows photos and social networking. The paid service allows video. Thought...
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Back in January of '05, Murdoch felt that media consumption was changing-especially among the under-30 set. Two opportunities were not being seized upon by the established players: broadband and...
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Mark Pincus declared on the Tribe site: "...as of today jan and the board are gone. i've taken over tribe and you're going to see big changes fast like getting rid of this big stupid...
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Minti is an online social community for Parents that I wrote about previously. They provide advice by parents for parents. Clay Cook, the CEO and Founder shot me a quick update, which was perfect. I...
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Filed in archive Event Software
by pete on August 28, 2006
A few sites I've covered here in the event software space have some news. 1. Kiko has sold to the highest bidder on eBay for $285k. (Previous coverage.) 2. HeyLetsGo is rocking along. They got...
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Filed in archive Event Software
by pete on August 28, 2006
I've been covering the intersection between event and social networking arena here. Upcoming.org started as a way for regular people to enter events and share them with their friends. They are...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment announced today that they have acquired video sharing site Grouper.com, for $65 million, in an effort to compete with the online video boom. FULL ARTICLE @ USA TODAY Mark...
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The five utilities reviewed work with AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! IM. When you chat with other users of BlowSearch Secured Messenger 2.1.0, your conversation is encrypted for security. The free,...
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Microsoft spinoff Wallop Technologies has taken 8,300 square feet in San Francisco, which will give the social networking startup room to grow once the top-secret site is launched. Wallop is...
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Filed in archive MySpace
by pete on August 23, 2006
Sp, everyone knows Helio sold its soul to myspace to get into every teenager's pants. I love their absolutely retarded commercial with the "hip" girls saying, "It's only like...
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Filed in archive Social Search
by pete on August 23, 2006
Del.icio.us has been quietly rolling out small enhancements including a new home page design with thumbnails and bookmark counts. Shachter sold del.icio.us to Yahoo! at the right time. They were and...
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Filed in archive Social Search
by pete on August 22, 2006
As netscape hires social bookmarkers and Digg gets mainstream press, Reddit is working behind the scenes on a co-brand deal w/ major political site, Slate. Pat McCarthy unearths the news: Reddit has...
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Filed in archive Sites
by Mark Brooks on August 17, 2006
Shortly after AOL announced a dramatically new business plan that included laying off a quarter of its workforce, the company went on a small buying spree, purchasing GameDaily.com, which provides...
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Filed in archive by Creative Weblogging on August 17, 2006
With the government of Brazil determined to reign in child predators where ever they may hide, Google may be in for the legal fight of its Brazilian life. Apparently they are not happy with the way...
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A septuagenarian British widower's soft-spoken, humble manner has won the hearts of young YouTube users. "What I hope I will be able to do is to just to bitch and grumble about life in...
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Filed in archive by Creative Weblogging on August 15, 2006
After receiving numerous complaints, suggestions and comments regarding what features users would love to see in their blog*spot weblogs, Google's Blogger team has finally responded by including...
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Filed in archive by Creative Weblogging on August 15, 2006
Users across the blogosphere and beyond may have noticed that their is a blank space on their website where a youtube video should be. That is because YouTube, a social networking site where users can...
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Apparently, people in different parts of the world are able to create social networking and other new innovative web applications. Business 2.0 has stepped out of michael Arrington's foyer...
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Filed in archive Music
by pete on August 14, 2006
Joshua Porter has some conjecture. He stumbled upon a survey asking iTunes' users questions like "Would you like to see what music your Friends are listening to?" Here's his take:...
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I don't want to rehash the news that you've read on 10 other blogs already. Suffice to say that Michael Jones' UserPlane has been purchased by AOL. Tech Crunch, GigaOM, Download Squad and...
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Filed in archive by Creative Weblogging on August 14, 2006
It looks like Google has partnered with sony ericsson in order to allow its phone users to post images to their blogger weblogs in a user friendly way. (Blogger Buzz) A while back we mentioned that...
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The "Social Network Wars" have begun and Zorpia is on a quest for global domination. Today the company announced the launch of its new Chinese social networking site, Zorpia.cn. Zorpia's...
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Filed in archive by Creative Weblogging on August 08, 2006
In their never ending quest to assimilate all of the world's info (and make it universally useful) Google has signed a deal with MTV which will allow bloggers to post video clips from MTV's...
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Filed in archive by Creative Weblogging on August 08, 2006
Users of MySpace (probably one of the most successful networking sites online) may be seeing Google ads as they chat and talk with friends online. (FT.com) MySpace, the fast-growing "social...
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Filed in archive by Creative Weblogging on August 08, 2006
Earlier I reported on a site that was allegedly stealing Google passwords by pretending to be a legit site of Orkut.com. Because identity theft is a pet peeve of mine, I decided to report this to...
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Filed in archive by Creative Weblogging on August 08, 2006
Apparently the social network king is upgrading to Flash 9.0 in order to keep hackers from messing with people's content. Here is the message users might see if they log in (with screen shot...
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Filed in archive by Creative Weblogging on August 02, 2006
I received an email from Anupam about a week ago claiming that he was seeing ads within Orkut. I first doubted this, since Google does not advertise within Orkut (with the Joga companion being the...
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