Here's an excerpt of a Gather.com article by one of my Gather contacts, Edward Nudelman: On Ratings, Gather Points, and Getting RichSo what's up with the ratings scheme and all these gather...
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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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Filed in archive by pete on January 29, 2006
Michael Arrington says: Noam Lovinsky is the founder of Skobee, a new service to help people plan events. They seem to be a direct competitor to Renkoo. The site is currently collecting emails for...
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by pete on January 29, 2006
So far, Heyletsgo is in a closed beta. I crossed paths briefly with the founders of Heyletsgo at David Beisel's Boston Web Innovators Group. I am looking forward to actually having a conversaton...
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Filed in archive by pete on January 29, 2006
Placesite presented at Noah Kagan's E27 event. They turn wifi hubs into places where people can meet the people around them and chat: PlaceSite provides "island Internets" tied to wi-fi...
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In case you were wondering why there are so many start-ups doing social video sharing sites, it isn't just to provide horny animators a place to host their creations. Why then? Reason 1. People...
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Brian Cordova submitted a link to us to the online video sharing site, Youare.tv. It doesn't look a whole lot different than all of the other online video sharing sites out there. J.D. Lasica,...
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If the key to making online video sharing is simplicity, Keven Federline might have just cracked the nut. On a more serious note, quite a bit happened in the world of online video sharing recently....
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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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Filed in archive by pete on January 29, 2006
There's been quite a bit of talk lately about compensating people that share their bookmarks. Greg Yardley kicked it off: Getting to the point - there's a million social bookmarking services...
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by robyn on January 27, 2006
Robyn Tippins and Peter Caputa, co-Editors of The Social Networking Weblog for Creative Weblogging talk on all things social for the week of Jan 23, 2006. Episode 2 LinkedIN controversySconex -...
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by robyn on January 26, 2006
UPDATE: Yahoo! Will Buy Digg For $30M Hmm... Guess Kevin Rose made a smart move leaving G4, or as some like to call it, G-whore. Congrats to the whole Diggnation team if this is true. That's...
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Kim and Jason Kotecki sent me an email letting me know about their new Experiential blog and I thought I'd take time to out it, since it's so new and all. Of course, if you have a blog you...
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Google's social site, orkut, may be undergoing a site redesign. The crazy Orkut-ers may or may not like this change: If so, it may come in green, with a little bit of red too (see images links...
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Gather's CEO was kind enough to give me some information on social networking site, Gather. I joined earlier in the week and have posted a few things already on RSS technology. I <3 RSS :) So,...
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Filed in archive by pete on January 22, 2006
Auren Hoffman reveals some Meebo growth stats on his weblog: i heard that yesterday they had over 300,000 logins ... in one day! during that day they sent almost 9 million messages (implying almost...
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Filed in archive by pete on January 22, 2006
Greg Linden, founder of Findory.com which (I think) is the best news and blog personalization out there, has blogged that Google just released recommendations on Google News: This would suggest that...
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Filed in archive by pete on January 22, 2006
Teleflip lets anyone set up an email address that will let a friend send an email to their mobile device: Teleflip started when the founder became increasingly frustrated at his inability to send...
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Filed in archive by pete on January 22, 2006
Noah Kagan points us to a friend of his, Devin Ream, who's blogged some recent changes at Facebook, which simplify the way users can control their privacy settings: I hated this page because it...
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Filed in archive by pete on January 22, 2006
Del.icio.us is the Social bookmarking engine purchased by yahoo recently. (My thoughts about that.) I use it extensively. I am subscribed to almost 500 blogs and I skim them almost every day. If I...
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Filed in archive by pete on January 22, 2006
If you keep track of your friendships like your finances, want to know which friends are freeloaders, check out BillMonk. Michael Arrington explains: The idea is a user who wants to report a debt...
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Cliff from MyCityRocks says they are trying get businesses involved in their efforts. Here's an article on this philosophy. Giving Back and The Value of Strategic Corporate Philanthropy Our goals...
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by robyn on January 19, 2006
YeeYoo's parent company, eFriends.net, also the owners of a mobile phone dating service (mobile phone dating is more Popular in Asian countries), was purchased by Meetic, a popular French dating...
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by robyn on January 17, 2006
Looks like the controversy over LinkedIN's new features is dying down. I hope Konstantin's interview on this blog was helpful to some. When he explains the WHY of the new features, they just...
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