Twitter cofounders have talked about the importance of discovery in interviews and at conferences over the last several months. This week a new design for Twitter.com went live featuring top tweets and a search box to find more of what …
Web-based instant message services — whether AIM, MSN, Yahoo or Gtalk — are some of the most popular forms of online communication. There are a couple startups that have taken advantage of this; most people in Silicon Valley will know …
At an event in August, Marissa Mayer, Google’s leading VP in search, said social search hasn’t shown much promise, but if it does, Google would be in a good position to incorporate it. I wrote about that here.
In a …
Meebo, the cross-platform instant messaging company, has built a Meebo Rooms widget especially for Facebook applications, which it makes available today.
It is significant because it could help make applications on Facebook more social, thanks to real-time communication. However, it …
Meebo, the Silicon Valley company that lets you message across multiple IM services from a single Web site, is taking significant pains to make money from its millions of users.
Last month, it launched a way for outside developers to …
We’ve been discussing how Facebook could enhance web search through using social data. Google has seemingly responded with — for now — an experiment.
Google is letting you vote on search results in order to influence which search results you …
Facebook will officially phase out its old advertising program, called Facebook Flyers, on December 3rd, and replace it with its new advertising program, we’ve learned from a company’s email to us, below.
Called Facebook Ads, the new program includes Social …
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Facebook is letting users decide whether they want to receive emails from Facebook applications they subscribe to, similar to the opt-out option on other Facebook applications.
By default, the checkbox is selected so that users receive emails.
Now, email …
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Meebo, the online instant messaging company, has been picking up users at a rapid rate, breezing along with high-profile backing by VC firm Sequoia Capital.
But its move today to deliver games on its platform is its most ambitious …
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Ning, a service that lets users create their own social networks, has passed a new milestone: Users have created more than 115,000 social networks, the company said.
But Ning’s efforts to build a real audience and retain it …
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Facebook has added a new option for its search bar, allowing users to search for advertising pages.
This continues a steady creep in search options, which already includes tabs to search for people, groups, events and applications.
It …
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Trulia, a web site that lets you search for homes, today launches a way for real estate agents to pay to to reach you with their listings.
The feature comes at a time when Trulia is showing traffic …
Instant messaging service Meebo has opened its platform to third party developers, which will put it in competition with Facebook, Google and other communications platforms. The new applications on Meebo already include voice and video services.
We wrote last week, …
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Microsoft has snagged a deal to invest $240 million into popular social network Facebook, valuing the company at $15 billion — a 1.6 percent stake. Microsoft has also agreed to advertise on Facebook in international markets.
We listened in …
The browser-based instant messenger, Meebo, has new ads. Similar to Pandora’s, Meebo’s ads cover unused screen space and let users add background themes, listen to music and watch videos.
The move is a first step towards monetizing like Pandora, which …
