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Amazon acquires book community Shelfari

Amazon has added another tuck-in acquisition: Shelfari, an online community for book worms. Shelfari is likely to be integrated into Amazon's services and continue to exist as a separate destination. Amazon, which helped fund the social networking startup, now owns Shelfari and a stake in its primary...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Shelfari, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Networking, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-26

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News to know: Psystar vs. Apple; WGA; Linux under attack; FAA failure

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: News.com: Psystar responds to Apple suit, will countersue Sam Diaz: Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit? Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practices...

Tags: FAA, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Attack, Psystar, Linux, Bluetooth, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-27

News to know: IE 8; Code name of the day; Facebook security; Office 2.0

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A Microsoft Codename a day: Rouge Dancho Danchev: Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers Twitter's "me too" anti-spam...

Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Office 2.0

Blog posts 2008-08-26

First MySpace OpenSocial apps unveiled with very little fanfare

As promised, MySpace users can now get their hands on the first fruits of the social network's official Developer Platform -- the means by which outside developers can create official applications that integrate with the site. Having surprised us back in November by announcing that MySpace would...

Tags: MySpace, Social Networking, Games, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-03-14

The unofficial directory of the 'OpenSocial Alliance' (26 companies and counting)

It seems as though barely an hour passes where some other company doesn't go public with its plans to support Google's recently announced OpenSocial framework and it's getting hard to keep track of them. Not only that, how do we refer to "them" (at last count, 24 26 of them)....

Tags: Alliance, Google OpenSocial, Wiki, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-11-02

Revish, book reviews done right

Revish is described as "a place where people share their reading experiences", and at first glance looks similar to the many social cataloging or book-based social networking sites that already exist, such as market leader, LibraryThing. However, although the differences maybe subtle, Revish claims to place a greater emphasis on...

Tags: Social Networks

Blog posts 2007-04-23

"Harry Potter" publisher plans 'MySpace for books'

Bloomsbury, the publisher behind the hit book series Harry Potter, has announced that it has plans to create the MySpace of the book world. With the final Potter coming out later this year, and amidst falling profits, the company sees entering the social media space as a way of filling...

Tags: Social Networks

Blog posts 2007-04-04