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Wikipedia blackout

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:14:22 +0000

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia shut down its English-language website for 24 hours starting midnight Tuesday Eastern Standard Time (0500 GMT) in an unprecedented move to protest two bills - the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), which are currently going through the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Flipboard: Social Media magazine App for iPad

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:52:03 +0000

Flipboard is a completely new way to enjoy your social networking content and it is like nothing you have ever seen before. Flipboard is a social magazine app for the iPad that aggregates nine online media sources. Flipboard works like this: connect the app to your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Select up to seven other Twitter feeds or lists that you want to treat as “news,” then browse them via an interface that looks less like Twitteriffic and more like Newsweek. In other words, turn your Facebook friends into something cooler! The appeal is not the content, but the presentation.

Politics 2.0 Google announces Campaign Tool

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:52:25 +0000

Google announced the launch of its Campaign Tool and its subsidiary, YouTube also launched Campaign Toolkit. And if that were not enough, Facebook launched a U. S. Politics page.
Google’s Campaign Tool includes YouTube and a long list of its other products such as AdWords, Moderator, Analytics and Alerts. Google promises to make campaigning easier and offers demos of how the products can be used to enhance communication between the campaign and voters. It’s nothing extraordinary and is simply all of its products contained in one space for reference.

Disney Selling Toy Story 3 Tickets on Facebook

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:43:27 +0000

Disney this week has launched a Facebook app called Tickets Together, which lets user purchase movie tickets through the popular social network. Once purchased, the apps will alert your Facebook friends, so you don't have to go to the movie by your lonesome. The service was actually launched last week without much fanfare. The new app coincides with presale tickets for Toy Story 3 which is do out in theaters June 18. Interested parties can use the app to buy tickets in groups as large as 80.

Google Buys Aardvark Social Search Network

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Google has announced the acquisition of Aardvark for a reported $50 million, and with it a new way to leverage social networks to find fast, relevant answers to questions. Aardvark is pushing something it calls “social search.” Instead of looking at Web pages to find answers to search queries, Aardvark’s service taps a person’s network of social contacts. Ask Aardvark for anything from restaurant recommendations to home improvement tips, and the service will relay the question to Facebook and Twitter friends who have identified themselves as “experts” on various topics.

"HBO Go" Online Channel

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Time Warner Inc. chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes unveiled HBO Go, a broadband complement to the premium network only for subscribers to the television service.

“We’re all being too slow,” Bewkes said. “We should put up all our networks on the Internet, out on broadband, right now. Get it out on home screens, broadband screens, put it on the Hulus and YouTubes, but only if people are subscribing to the video plant.”

At The Cable Show ’09, Bewkes unveiled a video of HBO Go, the broadband service that is only available to subscribers to the premium channel. Subscribers would access HBO Go through their cable provider’s Web site. From there, they would be able to view movies and series and set up their own watch lists.

Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Here's a heck of a rumor that we've sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don't know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding.

Twitter turned down an offer to be bought by Facebook just a few months ago for half a billion dollars, although that was based partially on overvalued Facebook stock. Google would be paying in cash and/or publicly valued stock, which is equivalent to cash. So whatever the final acquisition value might be, it can't be compared apples-to-apples with the Facebook deal.

CNN, Facebook and Obama Team Up Again

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

CNN.com and Facebook on Feb. 24 will attempt to replicate their wildly successful live streaming/commenting collaboration as seen during President Barack Obama’s inauguration, as the site ramps up coverage of the new president’s much-anticipated State of the Union Address.

As with the inauguration on Jan. 20, which yielded record-smashing traffic numbers ( see this earlier report), CNN.com visitors will be able to stream live coverage of the address, while concurrently commenting on the address via their Facebook status-updating tool -- all on a single Web page. And just like last time, viewer’ friends will be notified about the CNN.com Live coverage via their Facebook News Feeds.

XING AG Increases Revenues by 80 Percent

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

HAMBURG, GERMANY - XING AG (O1BC) can report the most successful financial year in the Company's history, according to preliminary and unaudited results. In spite of the difficult overall economic climate, the Company has achieved a significant rise in all of its key performance indicators over the previous financial year.

LinkedIn traffic grows

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

With the economy reeling and layoffs piling up, business-networking site LinkedIn has been not-so-surprisingly hopping.

Market researcher ComScore reported that LinkedIn's unique visitors rose to 7.7 million, a 22 percent increase over December, TechCrunch reported Saturday.