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Meebo introduces interactive ads, another step towards social web sites making money
via VentureBeat by (author unknown) on June 09, 2008
Shared by Nico meebo macht das sehr smart. respekt.We were hard on instant message startup Meebo in March when it was raising a $25 million round at a $200 million valuation. While it has gained tens of millions of users in a couple of years, it has yet to generate significant revenue. Today, in one of the Mountain View, Calif. company’s most explicit efforts yet to make money, it is...
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Why Facebook is now the number one social network in the world, and why this matters
via VentureBeat by Eric Eldon on June 13, 2008
“At first we were worried about MySpace, but then we realized that people use it differently from our site,” an employee at social network Facebook told me over a year ago. What he meant is that Facebook is a place for people to put their real lives online, providing factual information about themselves and having trusted interactions with their friends. Meanwhile, rival MySpace is more of a...
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No, you’re not driving away your Twitter friends, Twitter may be just cleaning house — or losing data
via VentureBeat by MG Siegler on June 14, 2008
We’ve gotten multiple reports that users of the micro-messaging service Twitter have lost significant amounts of followers over the past few days. One of our own writers noticed this as well and wondered if his political tweets (Twitter messages) were driving people away. Others are wondering if they are sleep-tweeting (you know, like sleep-walking) awful messages.A scan of the excellent...
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Exclusive: Barack Obama to name a “Chief Technology Officer”
via VentureBeat by Matt Marshall on November 13, 2007
The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has given VentureBeat an exclusive look at his technology plan, which he plans to unveil officially tomorrow (Wednesday) before a visit to Google’s headquarters.The full plan can be seen below. It contains several new proposals, includi
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Mobile ad company Admob has great year, sees spurt in iPhone browser traffic
via VentureBeat by Eric Eldon on January 14, 2008
AdMob, the mobile advertising company, is reporting a sharp spike in iPhone mobile browser impressions on its ads over Christmas, go
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Analysis: Plaxo and Friendfeed, pushing the “feed”
via VentureBeat by Eric Eldon on January 08, 2008
Facebook news feed has been a hit with users because it automatically displays the latest photos, newest friends, and other updates fr
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Kenyan tech bloggers launch crisis-report site
via VentureBeat by David Adewumi on January 14, 2008
A week ago, Africa tech blogger Erik Hersman read a post by Kenyan tech and human rights blogger Ory O
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Facebook buying Plaxo?
via VentureBeat by Eric Eldon on January 14, 2008
Facebook is “one hundred percent” buying Plaxo, we’ve just heard from
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Hitwise: Myspace quadruple the size of Facebook in US, but lead is falling
via VentureBeat by Eric Eldon on January 15, 2008
Myspace received 72.32 percent of visits to the top ten social networks in the US last month, or more than four times the 16.03 percent share of Facebook.However, MySpace’s lead is shrinking, according according to web analytics service Hitwise,
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Conduit gets $8M for toolbar for the masses
via VentureBeat by David Adewumi on January 16, 2008
Conduit, an Israel-based startup that lets anyone customize a browser toolbar that they can offer to their friends or others, reports rapid user growth.Rapid enough, at least, to draw $8 million in a second round of financing from aggressive venture capital firm
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