onesocialweb Breaking Barriers in the Social Networking
By Azam on May 13, 2010 Add a Comment
onesocialweb plans to enable free, open, and decentralized social applications on the web. The protocol can be used to turn any XMPP server into a full fledged social network, participating in the onesocialweb federation. The suite of extensions covers all the…
Continue Reading...NYT: Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook
By Azam on May 12, 2010 Add a Comment 
David Goldman for The New York Times
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 20, far left; Dan Grippi, 21; Max Salzberg, 22; and Raphael Sofaer, 19, all students at N.Y.U., are trying to reinvent social networking online.
By JIM DWYER
Published: May 11, 2010
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Continue Reading...Groupon is a Coupon Service that is More Like a Group Hug
By Azam on April 20, 2010 Add a Comment
Groupon the coupon vendor has amassed a massive round of funding 135M from Digital Sky Trading. The sky high valuation is a large wager on social network buying. Groupon is based on the simple premise of offering a discount to…
Continue Reading...RockMelt is a new browser Backed by Marc Andressen
By Azam on August 14, 2009 Add a Comment 
RockMelt is described as a browser focus on facebook social content. The project is brings former team of engineers from Andreessen’s Opsware, and from HP, which bought Opsware for $1.6 billion in 2007. Andreessen and Opsware co-founder Ben Horowitz launched…
Continue Reading...Posterous Launches Simple Group Blog and Gets Funding
By Azam on December 22, 2008 Add a Comment 
Posterous the very simple cms that allows users to simply post on a blog by email raises A round of funding. Posterous allow users to repost the stuff you email in to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Scribd,Tumblr, etc. Simplicity has…
Continue Reading...Facebook is Growing Like Crazy
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Facebook is putting interesting stats on growth and number related toactive users 140M and 52,000 applications on the facebook platform. Much other growth is coming from overseas with 70% of the users outside of the US. Facebook is currently adding between…
Continue Reading...Socialmedian is in XING
By Azam on December 20, 2008 Add a Comment
XING the European firm behind the professional contact social network acquires Socialmedian for $7.5M. XING will fold socialmedian into the professional network to share relevant content between users in the personal network.
From TechCrunch description of Socialmedian
Socialmedian is basically a…
Continue Reading...Feel the Power of Social Networks
By Azam on December 1, 2008 Add a Comment 
Power.com intends to become center of the social networking universe and is backed by heavyweights in investors DFJ and Ester Dyson. Power plans to be central point for users by pulling users’ social network updates, e-mail, instant messages and contact…
Continue Reading...Playlist Hires New CEO and Raises Close to $20M from the Pilot Group
By Azam on November 11, 2008 Add a Comment 
Playlist the music discovery startup has new CEO Owen Van Natta and raises close to $20M from Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group. Van Natta was intrigued by the opportunity in Project Playlist and was an early investor in the company experiencing…
Continue Reading...iSkoot raises $19M to Develop Web Service Platform
By Azam on November 7, 2008 Add a Comment 
iSkoot the company known for ability to make skype calls from a mobile phone has raised $19M in a third round of venture capital. The company has large ambitions to deliver a platform to enable services to carriers to offer third…
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