Guest Post
Chris Yeh is the vice president of marketing at collaboration company PBworks. This column was originally published on his blog.
One of the things that bugs me about the current state of Enterprise 2.0 is that even its advocates don’t …
Here’s a little peace of mind for parents worrying about what their kids are doing online. SafetyWeb, a service that lets parents track their child’s activity on the Web, announced today that it has secured a second round of funding …
Don’t let yourself be immortalized by a beer pong Facebook profile photo.
A quirky, little startup that lets you prepare your social media presence for when you die is now out of beta testing and open to the public.
MyWebWill …
Group-buying site Groupon’s model of offering a unique deal a day for local businesses brought it a valuation of more than $1 billion in 18 months. But can the group buying model work for something even more intangible like software?…
MySpace just confirmed that Jason Hirschhorn is leaving his position as the site’s co-president.
Hirschhorn (pictured left) joined MySpace in April 2009 as its chief product officer, and he has been running the social network with co-president Mike Jones (right) …
United Kingdom-based Tweetmeme announced a few impressive milestones this week. The company is serving nearly 500 million impressions each day of its light-green retweet button (pictured right), which you can click on to share content through Twitter.
Founder Nick Halstead …
Plancast — a service that lets you share future plans with friends, and view those from others — just got a whole lot more useful today. The company announced its API (application programming interface), which gives developers the ability to …
A growing number of publishers want to connect with their readers’ social network accounts, according to a startup called Janrain. The Portland, Ore. company just announced some major media companies as new customers for its product, Engage, which authenticates site …
A new company is making blips on the location-based services radar. New York-based Topguest is moving into the market with an idea to bridge location-based services with the travel industry. Working in “sneak-preview” mode — meaning it’s aching to make …
Mark Zuckerberg said earlier this month that the company wasn’t building a rumored web-based e-mail client. He said he favored products around short-form communications.
Statistics on teenage social networking use may be a good reason why.
The company’s chief operating …
Facebook is adding a subtle, but much requested feature — it’s letting users “like” comments. So if someone says something particularly witty in response to your most recent status update or photo, you and others can acknowledge it.
When a …
AOL’s $850 million acquisition of Bebo has proven to be a disaster — even in its final throes. While many thought AOL would simply shut down the social network for tax purposes, Bebo is in fact being sold to Los …
In one of the more fascinating lawsuits filed over social networking, an IT staffing firm has sued three former employees and their new workplace for violating non-compete agreements by reaching out to colleagues through LinkedIn.
TEKsystems alleged that Brelyn Hammernick, …
One of the challenges facing business social networking tools is that they might not connect meaningfully with workers’ day-to-day activities. Socialtext is tackling part of that problem with a new service called Socialtext Connect, which adds social features to existing …
Social investing site Covestor, which lets you copy the trades of investors blow by blow, has helped moved about $100 million in such “replicating” trades, chief executive Perry Blacher said today.
It piloted the program for nine months under a …
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Twitter’s engineers apparently weren’t joking last week when they said the service wouldn’t be able to keep up with the World Cup.
The microblogging service has suffered bout after bout of errors today, reminiscent of its early instability when …
As Facebook continues its inexorable growth across the globe, a host of Silicon Valley startups are betting that it’s no longer the best place online to hang out with your closest friends.
The latest attempt to gain ground in the …
One in four people who date online have been dumped the lazy way: They read about it on Facebook.
A survey of 1,000 Facebook users run by SNAP Interactive, the New York City-based creators of the “Are YOU Interested” dating …
Infochimps, a startup aiming to organize all of the world’s free and commercial datasets, has opened a host of new features for Twitter developers to tap. The company, which has collected and analyzed about four years’ worth of data from …
Twitter just launched Places, the location-sharing feature that the company announced at its Chirp conference in April.
Users could already share their location on Twitter — either their latitude and longitude coordinates or their neighborhoods. But with Places, you can …
