Google is announcing Friend Connect (link goes live tonight), a way to “sprinkle social features across any web site in a matter of hours,” Google director of engineering David Glazer says. And also a way to put Google at the center of every social interaction on the web.
Friend Connect lets you integrate your list of [...]
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Quiet Facebook co-founder and chief technology officer Adam D’Angelo is leaving the company, one source tells me. D’Angelo announced the news internally this past Friday, the source says — and Facebook has just confirmed.
D’Angelo is one of Facebook’s original co-founders and one of founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s oldest friends at [...]
Facebook is borrowing $100 million from venture loan firm TriplePoint to finance the expansion of its server farms, and other infrastructure expenses, Business Week’s Spencer E. Ante reports. Why this additional money? Because the site is still growing really fast. It now has 109.2 million monthly users worldwide, according to comScore numbers cited in the article [...]
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Facebook has reached an agreement with the attorneys general of 49 states whereby the social network will adopt more than 60 specific new measures to ensure that it keeps minors safe on its site.
Among other measures, requests by a user to change their own age will be scrutinized and recorded, and Facebook will only grant [...]
MySpace is planning to introduce a set of new features that will allow its users to access their data on other sites, it is announcing today. This is pretty interesting, because MySpace seems like it is trying to make itself the center of the web.
Users will be able to do things like update their own [...]
Big Facebook profile changes are coming, sure to impact developers — Facebook has been experimenting with a ground-up redesign of its user interface for months, that it hopes will improve communication among users. Now, the company is providing Facebook application developers with more details on the changes — and how those changes are going to [...]
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SlideShare, a company that lets you upload Powerpoint presentations to the web then share them with others, has raised $3 million from Venrock. Its site has been growing increasingly fast since it launched in 2006, chief executive Rashmi Sinhahmi tells me. It now gets 4.5 million unique visitors per [...]
Slide, the widget-maker that among other things let you create slideshows and share them with your friends on social networks, is now un-banned from Turkey. It was banned in March for “harboring pictures and articles that are considered to be insulting to Ataturk [pictured], the founder of modern Turkey,” as we wrote then. Its [...]
Social bookmarking has been around for years, with companies like Delicious successfully creating sites where online communities collect and share links to their favorite web pages. Iterasi has come out with a slick-looking evolution of that idea, now available in private beta if you want to sign up. Instead of just saving links, you [...]
The number of posts, signups, comment threads, active users, and highly active users on Facebook’s official developers’ forum have all fallen by between 25-50 percent from January to April, according to a detailed report put together by prominent Facebook developer Jesse Farmer. So has the usage of those applications. The graph above shows the number [...]
Over the weekend, we heard that LinkedIn has big news in store, that was likely not an acquisition by the most prominent interested buyer, News Corp. After we published the story on Sunday evening, we heard from two sources that LinkedIn was instead working on raising a new funding round — this is a company [...]
Netscape, Opsware and Ning founder Marc Andreessen may soon join Facebook’s board of directors. He’s already verbally accepted the position, Kara Swisher hears. One obvious question here — and I have an email out to Andreessen for comment — is that Ning’s do-it-yourself social network creator tool is based on the opposite premise [...]
Companies as large as Apple are trying to let you stream online video content to your TV, but a startup named ZeeVee is coming out with what could be a popular alternative. It is building a box that essentially lets you plug your computer into the television cable wiring already in your house, [...]
Worktopia is trying to make it easier for business people to quickly organize small meetings. It offers a searchable online database for places like conference rooms in hotels, airport club conference rooms and other often under-used meeting places. Once you find the meeting rooms with Worktopia, you can make online reservations for your group. [...]
Updated three times: After I published the initial version of the story last night, two sources have told us they’ve heard that LinkedIn has raised or is raising a new round of funding. Techcrunch now says it has been hearing similarly. More details below.
Something’s up at business social network LinkedIn. The Mountain View, Calif. company’s [...]
After a crazy 13 weeks, Yahoo hopes life will start to calm down — That’s the gist of this message to company employees from Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang, after he and its board of directors rejected Microsoft’s purchase offer. Yahoo may get punished in the stock market today, but still, “I’m so proud of [...]
Nobody really knows how much social networks applications are worth, which leads some people to think that they’re not worth much of anything. But try telling that to the companies that are building businesses through applications, and they’ll laugh at you as they continue on their way to the bank.
The social network application market only [...]
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