Tag Archive | "google"
February 21, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Mobile,
Social Media
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Last year, I wrote a post with predictions for mobile in 2007 and beyond, using inCode’s “Top 10 Global Wireless Predictions for 2007″ as a starting point. We’re almost 2 months into 2008, and it’s the perfect time to re-visit those predictions to see what came true, and make a few more predictions for 2008 [...]
January 4, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Enterprise,
Social Media
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At the end of November, I published a Dear Abby-esque post on Plaxo Pulse. In it, my friend, Paul emailed me to get my opinion on Plaxo Pulse, and I didn’t have many (okay, ANY) positive things to say about it. So, it was with great amusement that I read Michael Arrington’s post on TechCrunch [...]
November 27, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Mobile
(1) Comment
Today, Verizon reported (gasp) that it is “opening” up its network to any device and any application…that can meet it’s “minimal technical standard”. I’m prepared to swallow my words (see my previous post “Will Verizon Become a More Open Mobile Network for Developers?“), assuming Verizon’s standards (to be published in early 2008) are as reasonable [...]
September 21, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Developers,
Events
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For all you tech-savvy women out there… There’s a new, 2-day technology event coming up at the end of October (22-23) in Mountain View, CA called “She’s Geeky,” which should be good. Unfortunately, for wireless geeks, it overlaps with the first day of CTIA’s Wireless I.T. and Entertainment 2007 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, [...]
August 27, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Financing,
Social Media
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Today, Reuters published an interesting article “Social Network Sites Tempt Investors” talking about the liklihood of a flury of social networking IPOs. The article is well worth a read for all of you social media fans out there. According to the article, so called “Wall Street observers” believe that United Online Inc.‘s recent registration for [...]
July 23, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Financing,
Social Media
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Today, TechCrunch revealed big news in social networking investing: Hi-5 got $20 Million in Financing from Mohr Davidow Ventures and Tagged Hi-5 I understand, but Tagged?! Whoa. That’s a whole lot of mula — especially for a social networking site that no one I know uses (especially given that I blog about Social Networking). A [...]
March 7, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Mobile,
Review,
Social Media
(2) Comments
Polaris Venture Partners general partner Simeon Simeonov is the latest to suggest that Google is working on a mobile Phone. In his blog, Simeonov divulges that Andy Rubin (who founded Danger and later, Asteroid, which was ultimately sold to Google) is working with a team of about 100 people on a Google phone. He also [...]
March 2, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Advertising,
Social Media
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Italy-based social networking company, Dada S.p.A., is partnering with Google AdSense to pay users for allowing ads on their space. Dada’s new Friend$ is an opt-in revenue sharing program that rewards users for adding friends and updating the content of their Dada space. According to Dada, Friend$ is, “the only program that rewards you both [...]
March 1, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Enterprise
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Today, on Webpronews, Steven Bradley addresses some interesting questions raised in a couple of other blogs – namely: Is there an optimal post length? Will shorter posts help to retain readers and even lead to more links? What makes you unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed? Bradley’s ultimate conclusion is that the best blogs have [...]
February 26, 2007 by
Lisa Whelan |
Social Media
(3) Comments
Internet search engines and social networking sites are enabling companies to do their “due diligence” on prospective employees more extensively than ever before. According to an article I read this morning, Google (and other big companies) are researching prospective recruits by investigating their on-line presence on social networking sites. But, businesses aren’t the only ones [...]
