The founders of the social network once touted as the “anti-Facebook” have a new creation for you make that new silly LOLcat you found or crazy celebrity pic go viral.
Makr, a newly-launched image remixing website, is the creation of …
Social sans commerce: here we come.
The new social utility that serial entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell started in response to being, in his words, screwed by Facebook, is live. App.net, which Caldwell ran a Kickstarter-ish campaign to fund, blew through its $500,000 goal and currently sits at $595,150.
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In last week’s SEC filing, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg poked a huge hornet’s nest when he referenced “The Hacker Way.”
Some of the pioneers of the hacker ethos and culture have previously defined hacking as having strong connections to tinkering, …
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of the Diaspora social network — which gained recognition for challenging Facebook — died this weekend, the company confirmed Monday.
The official cause of death has not been reported, but CNNMoney has said that it …
Diaspora, the open-sourced Facebook alternative initiated by four New York University students, will be launching in three weeks, its creators announced in a blog post today.
The project garnered a large amount of press back in May when it raised …
Less than three weeks ago, four New York University students launched a please-fund-us page on Kickstarter, a site where people attempt to raise money from donors for worthy projects.
Their goal was brazen: To create an alternative to Facebook that, …
