Half of all Twitter users now have access to lists feature
About half of all users should have Twitter’s new lists feature turned on.
It lets you create groups of users to follow and ideally should make the site a lot stickier for new users (or a lot noisier for people who already follow hundreds of accounts)…. Continue Reading
Facebook is leaving Twitter in the dust, says Hitwise
Here’s a mind-boggling statistic: Facebook.com makes up 6 percent of all U.S. Internet visits, according to web research firm Hitwise. And it’s leaving Twitter in the dust.
Hitwise general manager of global research, Bill Tancer, wrote:
I believe this figure confirms our original hypothesis of Twitter-stall due… Continue Reading
Facebook’s big changes to the platform — key takeaways
Facebook did go through with the big top-down overhaul we reported on earlier. This could have significant implications for the way top-performing games attract new users through the system. (If you want the full live-blogged version, it’s here.)
Facebook is releasing an open graph API that… Continue Reading
Big changes: Facebook does a top-down overhaul of all communication channels
I’m here at Facebook’s Developer Garage in Palo Alto, where the company is unveiling a roadmap for the platform and potentially some significant changes that could alter the way apps are spread through the social network. I’m live-blogging as we go, so all of this… Continue Reading
Twitter-client Brizzly adds Facebook updates
Brizzly, the still-in-beta Twitter client from the team behind Google Reader, now pulls in updates from Facebook. It’s a nice, natural addition to the web-based client, which is a bit more consumer-friendly than Tweetdeck or Hootsuite.
Brizzly shows a stream of Facebook status updates and displays… Continue Reading
MySpace and Facebook are officially talking. But it probably doesn’t look like this.
So MySpace and Facebook are officially talking about sharing music content through a Facebook Connect integration, according to a story published in The Telegraph this week. The two companies’ paths are diverging — MySpace has reoriented itself around a content strategy, relinquishing its broader ambitions, while… Continue Reading
Did AMD’s former CEO reveal confidential secrets in Galleon insider trading case?
Former Advanced Micro Devices chief executive Hector Ruiz allegedly shared confidential secrets about his company to a trader involved in the Galleon insider trading scandal, according to the Wall Street Journal.
If true, it’s a huge scandal that will stain the record of a statesman of… Continue Reading
Facebook, Stanford ask — can social networking promote world peace?
Facebook and a Stanford University lab specializing in persuasive technology have launched http://peace.facebook.com, an experiment in social networking data with a warm, fuzzy premise: Can online friendships translate into greater collaboration and reduced conflict in the world?
The site is part of a broader PeaceDot Initiative,… Continue Reading
Reddit’s co-founders move on to new pastures
Reddit co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian are leaving the crowd-sourced news service when their contracts end on Oct. 31.
The pair helped found the social news site four years ago, and it was a promising competitor to Digg but never got quite the same traction…. Continue Reading
Ten-year venture capital returns drop as boom years fade away
Venture capital firms can’t boast 10-year returns riding on the golden era of IPOs anymore.
Ten-year returns have fallen by more than half compared to a year ago as the late 1990s tech boom no longer gets included, according to the National Venture Capital Association. They… Continue Reading
Facebook tinkering with big changes that may weaken app virality
Facebook is having one-on-one meetings with some of its larger developers detailing a series of changes that could significantly affect the way applications are spread through the social network. They may go through some of the proposals at this Wednesday’s Facebook Developer Garage in Palo… Continue Reading
More names for the GreenBeat marquee: Gee, Wagner, and Wong
A new flock of experts and industry leaders has joined the roster for GreenBeat 2009, the seminal event on the Smart Grid, on Nov. 18 and 19. We are very excited to announce this group, as it spans analysts, purse-string holders, and an inspiring new… Continue Reading
How Google’s new social search could suck in your Facebook friends, if it wanted to
Google’s foray into the world of social search is now live.
As we wrote last week, Google social search pulls in results from your friends alongside conventional results. If you’re thinking about visiting Brazil, a traditional search might turn up hotels, tourism agencies and restaurants. But… Continue Reading
Facebook revs up sharing features to become a content hub
Facebook is overhauling its sharing features, bolstering the company’s position as an emerging content hub for the web. The company’s launching a new share button (similar to Tweetmeme’s retweet button) that will show a live counter on how many times a piece of content has… Continue Reading
Zynga’s Mark Pincus: I got kicked out of some of the best companies in America
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. Mark Pincus is the CEO of social gaming company Zynga . If these notes are a bit scattered, it’s because it’s paraphrased and Pincus is doing a stream-of-consciousness style talk.)
So Pincus starts… Continue Reading
Zappos CEO Hsieh: How to build a company culture that delivers happiness
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. This is paraphrased. Tony Hsieh is the CEO of online shoe company Zappos, which is in the process of being acquired by Amazon.)
Hsieh: Basically in college I was working at a pizza… Continue Reading
Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. Mark Zuckerberg is on-stage for a question-and-answer session and I’ve embedded a short clip from the talk below. This is paraphrased.)
Jessica Livingston: First I want to go way, way back. I… Continue Reading
Startup School: Stone, Williams on how they co-founded Twitter
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today.)
Twitter’s co-founders Biz Stone and Ev Williams are on-stage for a question-and-answer session. This is paraphrased, but I’ve embedded a video courtesy of Alexa Lee below, if you want to watch the… Continue Reading
Sequoia Capital: The economy’s not so grim after all
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. You can watch it here live or update as we go….)
Greg McAdoo, a partner at Sequoia Capital, said the firm has been making more investments in the last 12 months than… Continue Reading
Twilight of the venture gods: Is Sequoia spreading itself thin?
Along with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Sequoia Capital is probably the most famous venture capital firm around, but it may have overreached in the last couple years, writes Adam Lashinsky in Fortune.
Lashinsky writes that Sequoia attempted to branch out from venture capital into a broader… Continue Reading