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- Pageflakes adds social networking
- Business2 is reporting on the latest upgrade to Pageflakes to go live later today, which will see the personalized start-page service take its first steps towards evolving into a social network based on shared interests.For the first time, members will be able to establish a public profile and there will...
- Tags: Widgets, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- More thoughts on Facebook's new platform
- Earlier this week I reported on Facebook's plans to further open up and to turn the social network into a platform. Third parties would be able to partner with Facebook, who in return would provide the necessary hooks for those companies to port their applications, and set-up-shop inside of the...
- Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Social Networks, Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Yahoo to rebrand MyBlogLog, and then what?
- Yahoo is to make a number of changes to MyBlogLog, the stats service and distributed social network for blogs that it acquired at the beginning of the year. Speaking at Chicagos SOBcon at the weekend, recently appointed MyBlogLog community manager, Robyn Tippins, talked about Yahoos forthcoming plans for the service,...
- Tags: Social Networks, Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- MySpace buys Photobucket
- First reported by Valleywag, and then confirmed by TechCrunch, MySpace has acquired the popular photosharing site, Photobucket. Readers of this blog will know that the two companies have had an on/off relationship, with Photobucket owing much of its success to News Corp.s social networking site, before they were blocked for...
- Tags: Widgets, Social Networks, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- YouTube spotlights presidential candidates; CBS excludes YouTube/MySpace from content deals; Can YouTube Hear Me? (update); and more
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…YouTube invites presidential candidates into the spotlight. YouTube is putting each of the US presidential hopefuls into the Spotlight; a weekly event on the video sharing site where each candidate...
- Tags: YouTube, Widgets, Video Sharing, Social Networks, Politics 2.0, MySpace, Joost, Friendster
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- LinkedInABox: a LinkedIn widget
- LinkedInABox is a flash widget designed to be embedded on blogs and social networking profiles, that displays information pulled from a users LinkedIn account.To begin creating your own version of the widget you first enter your LinkedIn log-in details into the LinkedInABox site though they arent stored, and from there...
- Tags: Social Networks, Widgets, LinkedIn
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Explode, a meta-social network
- Explode, a new service from Curverider the British startup behind Elgg, is described as "a simple way to connect to all your friends regardless of what [social] network they belong to". Its essentially a meta-social network, the result of which is a widget that displays a list of all of...
- Tags: Social Networks, Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Will MySpace try to monetize its ecosystem?
- Over the last year or so, many companies and products have sprung up which attempt to feed off of MySpaces success - widgets, embeddable media players etc. Some of which have been blocked by MySpace, while others such as YouTube have been met with direct competition from the social network...
- Tags: YouTube, Social Networks, MySpace, Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Interview: MyBlogLog co-founder, Eric Marcoullier
- MyBlogLog lets publishers set up a social network around an existing blog, so that they can learn more about their readers, and enable them to connect with one-another. Fred Wilson is an admirer - not least because of the social networks interconnected nature, compared to the silos of MySpace, Facebook...
- Tags: MyBlogLog, Social Networks, Widgets
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- Jaxtr brings VoIP to MySpace
- Jaxtr, which launched a private Beta today, is a VoIP based service that brings free voice calls to social networks and blogs. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA and was founded just over a year ago by Philip Mobin and Touraj Parang.Once a user has registered their phone...
- Tags: social networking, Social Networks, MySpace, Widgets
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
Additional Resources
- Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
- I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...
- Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee
- News items 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Facebook: Revenue plan by 2011; Growth is key for now.
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's more focused on growing the social networking site than he is in finding a way to monetize it - at least for now. In a Q&A interview with German blog Netzökonom, Zuckerberg has basically given himself and the company three years to come up...
- Tags: Revenue, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Microsoft Live Labs launches politically focused social-media site
- Microsoft's Live Labs released on October 9 "Poltical Streams," which the company is describing as a way for individuals to receive "at a glance, a more complete picture of the information and opinions on the Web on a single page." by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?
- Digg faces two big challenges going forward. How to expand its user-base and therefore content beyond its geeky roots, and in turn, how to increase ad revenue. Addressing the latter, co-founder Kevin Rose says the social news site is exploring "Diggable ads". by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Digg, Advertisement, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- DriverScanner 2009 (exe)
- DriverScanner is a simple and reliable tool with which to update system drivers, releasing improved functionality and increasing operability with networks and hardware. It identifies drivers to be updated and delivers the tools to download and install those drivers. It also allows you to backup your drivers so that if...
- Tags: Driver, Uniblue Systems, DriverScanner, Productivity, Backups
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?
- Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...
- Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- WiMax - the technology, devices and momentum - finally arrives.
- Finally! WiMax is officially here. I know this because executives pulled out the big scissors - in this case, hedge clippers - to the cut the symbolic copper wire instead of a ribbon to signify the end of the wired Internet. Whenever there's a ribbon cutting, you know its official....
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?
- Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?RE: Palin e-mail hacker indictedIf someone opened your U.S. mail box and took your mail he or she would be prosecuted and possibly jailed . . . this is no different.RE: Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice...
- Tags: Social Security, Palin, Palin e-mail hacker, e-mail hacker, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
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