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- How will Yahoo address social networking?
- The due date for Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's strategic plan isn't here yet, but that hasn't stopped the handicapping. Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck has a 22 page report addresses Yahoo's options. His conclusions: Yahoo will have to address its social networking strategy since Comscore reckons that social sites (think...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Social networking, MySpace, General, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- hi5 saves time with Hyperic Enterprise
- I had an opportunity to speak with Akash Garg, hi5 NetworkÂ’s CTO, about how his organization is using tools from Hyperic. Thanks Akash for taking the time to chat with me.Please tell me who you are and a bit about your organization.hi5 networks is a leading social networking destination...
- Tags: Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
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- Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
- Property Minutes spent % of time spent on social networks Minutes per Visitor French Internet Audience 46,532 N/A 1,518 Social Networking 2,708 100.0 163 Skyrock Network 1,987 73.4 173 Facebook.com 335 12.4 106 MySpace.com 94 3.5 31 Netlog.com...
- Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
- Property Apr-2007 Apr-2008 % Change Total French Internet Audience 25,388 30,649 21% Social Networking 12,244 16,601 36% Skyrock Network 8,562 11,504 34% Facebook.com 106 3,161 2,877% MySpace.com 2,068 3,006 45% Tromibi.com 775 1,299 68% Hi5.com 1,311...
- Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- XSS worm at Justin.tv infects 2,525 profiles
- A XSS worm was crawling across Justin.tv, the popular lifecasting platform at the end of June, details of the incident emerged in the middle of last week. Basically, the group that found the XSS vulnerability abused it for the purpose of generating the following graph as a proof of concept,...
- Tags: Vulnerability, XSS, Worm, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Top 25 properties by number of Latin American unique visitors in April 2008
- Top Properties Audience, 000 Total Internet 61,610 Google Sites 55,290 Microsoft Sites 54,914 Yahoo! Sites 38,621 MercadoLibre 27,534 Wikipedia Sites 26,347 Terra Networks 25,873 UOL Sites 16,711 Orange Sites 15,241 ...
- Tags: Site, Wiki, Internet, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Online Communications, Networking, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud
- On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Facebook flap: Google's side
- Amid the Facebook move to block Google's Friend Connect, the search giant has responded. As expected, Google had a few issues with Facebook's privacy assessment of Google Friend Connect. There's a lot of debate on Techmeme about the issue and it's a big one as all of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Google Friend Connect, User Privacy, Third Party App, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Google launches Friend Connect with mixed reviews
- Google announced last night that it will be launching Friend Connect -- a tool that website owners can use to give their site a more social feel. Don't worry if you have a website but you are not comfortable integrating with advanced APIs, integrating couldn't be easier. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., API, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Google kicks off its Facebook ground war
- Google kicks off its Facebook ground warGoogle kicks off its Facebook ground warGotta love how Google is always playing the "me too!" card on their services. If only they spent more time innovating instead of copying others and sitting around playing with office toys. This service will be...
- Tags: Social networking, Google Inc., Facebook
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Google kicks off its Facebook ground war
- Updated: Google on Monday outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site. Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version. Add it up and you have...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Site, Friend Connect, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Official: Google's 'Friend Connect' brings social networking to the Long Tail
- In case you didn't think Google wanted to be a big player on the Social Web -- Orkut, Google Talk and shared items in Google Reader aside -- the search giant revealed an ambitious new strategy today: 'Friend Connect' is a platform designed to help the 'long tail' of sites...
- Tags: Long Tail, Google Inc., Network, Friend Connect, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- The most popular social network in Latin American countries is Orkut
- The main social networks of the five-country LatAm region, by number of users, according to an Analytics 2.0: Orkut - 12.9 mln (up 27% from 10.1 million in 2007); Sonico - 7.3 mln (Sonico launched during the second half of 2007); hi5 - 4.2 mln (up 72% from 2.2 mln...
- Tags: Orkut.com, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Microsoft in "spam" partnership with five social networks
- I'm not sure whether to call this data portability or just making it easier for social networking services to spam a user's contacts. But either way, Microsoft have announced partnerships with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo and Facebook, to enable Windows Live Messenger users to looks for contacts on either of...
- Tags: Partnership, Network, Microsoft Windows Live, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Data Portability, Social Networking, Microsoft Windows, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocial
- On the same day Microsoft announced new interoperability deals with five social-networking sites, Yahoo announced it has joined the Google-backed OpenSocial social-networking intiative. Yahoo announced on March 25 that not only had it joined the OpenSocial group, but that -- along with MySpace and Google -- Yahoo...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Strategy, Business Structures, Management, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Microsoft signs contact-sharing deals with five social-networking sites
- Microsoft has signed five separate agreements with five social-networking leaders via which each will allow its users to share contact data with Microsoft in a more secure way. In a blog post on March 25 to the Microsoft Windows Live Developer site, John Richards, Director of the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"
- OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"Excellent analysisGreat analysis Steve! I am giving a talk at Toronto's FacebookCamp on OpenSocial vs. Facebook, so this will definitely help. As you suggested, Google announced their platform too early. But in a way, it was also an appropriate time to release considering that Friendster, Hi5,...
- Tags: Google OpenSocial, Facebook, Marc Canter
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"
- As it stands, the Google-led OpenSocial has very little, if anything, to do with data portability. That's the view of Marc Canter, a long time advocate of open standards and data portability, and one in which I'm inclined to agree. It seems that almost everybody got a little carried away...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Google OpenSocial, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Top social networking sites in US in December 2007
- For December 2007, MySpace.com received 72% of US visits among the social networking category, according to Hitwise. Facebook.com received 12.57% of visits and Bebo.com received 1.09% of visits. US traffic to all the social networking websites increased 4% YTY. MyYearbook experienced the largest gain in market share in December 2007,...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- DEMO 08: SceneCaster brings 3D Web to any device
- SceneCaster will debut a new feature of its 3D software at the DEMO 08 Conference that allows users to link together 3D scenes and consume them on any device. SceneWeaver strings 3D scenes, and allows objects to be hyperlinked to any Web page. "It's an interconnected...
- Tags: 3D, Goal, SceneCaster, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
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