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Microsoft social-networking licensee on the rocks?

High-profile Microsoft-technology licensee Wallop may be calling it quits, at least on the social-networking-platform side of its business. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Wallop, Wallop Site, Social Networking, E-mail, Wiki, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-15

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Mobile browser based on Microsoft tech makes its beta debut

Zumobi, a mobile browser based on technology developed by Microsoft Research, is now available in beta form. Zumobi -- a startup formerly known as ZenZui, which is headed by of a number of former Microsoft employees -- released on December 14 a beta of its Zooming User...

Tags: Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Web Browser, Zumobi, Zumobi Beta, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-12-14

yourminis opens up the widget platform, releases API

Tonight yourminis announced the availability of their API, giving developers a way to build widgets and upload them. In addition, the team released an analytics application that will help you track where your widget is going and how many people are using it. All of this is under a developers...

Tags: yourminis, Rich Internet Applications, Goowy, Flash, Apollo

Blog posts 2007-03-30

Wallop gets a makeover with a much better interface

Im still buried in email and Ive been spending most of the morning coding, so hopefully Ill be able to catch up tonight and tomorrow before the weekend. But yesterday I took a quick trip to the Wallop offices to talk with Karl Jacob, the CEO and get a tour...

Tags: Wallop, Flash, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-03-02

Rich Internet Applications I couldn't live without

After seeing Mike Arringtons post about Web 2.0 companies he cant live without, I thought an RIA-themed version would be fun to do. Im also very curious which RIAs you use on a daily basis, so if I missed any, leave them in the comments. Goowy This year...

Tags: Instant messaging, Ive, Pandora, Jumpcut, Brightcove, video, RIA, Macromedia Flash Player, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-02

Wallop: Seeding a social network

“Get into Wallop, make it yours!” is the tag line and exhortation of the Wallop social networking site, launched in beta in September. It is not necessarily easy to “get into Wallop,” however, and that is by design.Wallop proudly touts that it is “the exclusive social experience” that attracts “select...

Tags: Wallop, Social Media, Social Networking, Facebook, Amateur Content, Social Web, MySpace, User-Generated Content, Culture, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-12-11

Revisiting Wallop

rBack in September I received an invite to Wallop and gushed about the service. I was impressed partly because of the novel use of Flash and also partly because I think Wallop enhances the user experience of social networks. One of the things MySpace got right was allowing people to...

Tags: Wallop, Micropayments, Flash, Experience, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-06

Microsoft's four-year brainchild: Wallop

Flashy new social-networking siteWhat happens when Microsoft brings in psychologists and Web developers to create a social-networking site? You get Wallop, which lets Flash developers build personalization widgets that could cost users a buck or two. CNET's Rafe Needleman speaks with Wallop CEO Karl Jacob at DemoFall 2006.

Tags: Wallop

Videos 2006-09-29

DEMOFall 2006 coverage

Dan Farber has put together extensive, company-by company coverage of DEMOfall 2006 on his blog. Weve collected all of the ZDNet blog coverage of the event here. Day 2 included a number of excellent ideas to address information security issues like a better way to digitally sign documents from DSI,...

Tags: DEMO, DemoFall 2006

Blog posts 2006-09-29

First look at Wallop

First look at WallopIt's also illegalWell within the ADA's definition of "public accomodation," but I can't find a single switch to enable it to be used by the blind.Until that's fixed, they're toast.Wallop!Like you Ryan, I'm just getting started - but I like it! You make a great point about...

Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Web browsers, Blogging, Wallop

Discussion threads 2006-09-27

Social networks in transition

DemoFall 2006 has its share of social networking startups this year, as it has in years past. One difference from past convocations of the digerati is that the realm of social networking is dominated by MySpace and Facebook--at least for the 15-to-25-year-old crowd. But different demographics, and the inevitable aging...

Tags: MySpace, social networking

Blog posts 2006-09-26