Greplin Grabs Your Personal Content
By Azam on September 23, 2011 Add a Comment
A few years ago, Daniel Gross was on his way to a party in his native Israel when he pulled out his smartphone to look up the address. The invitation could have been buried in his e-mail, on Facebook, or…
Continue Reading...Ness Being More Subjective on Search
By Azam on July 19, 2011 Add a Comment 
Ness is working on developing highly personalized search engine and recently received 5M from investors. Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures lead the Series A round, with participation from Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, Bullpen Capital, and Angel investors.
The Alsop-incubated company is…
Continue Reading...Social Networking Falling Under the Influence of Others
By Azam on June 6, 2011 Add a Comment
Social Networking is a powerful tool in sharing and decimating information across a network. I have been thinking on this idea for some time from telecom to statecraft. In telecom, networks are geared towards passing data to nodes and the…
Continue Reading...On the Right Path
By Azam on April 4, 2011 Add a Comment 
Path is the new social networking tool being developed by Dave Morin the ex facebooker focusing on real friends. Path is available as an iPhone app, and if focusing on sharing photos. Path is focused on the closest 50 friends…
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
NYT Link below…
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…
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