Tag Archive | "social networking"
August 27, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
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 […]
August 22, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Advertising,
Events,
Social Media
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Tonight is the first chance I’ve had to write about the Facebook Developer/ Influencer conference that I went to last week. The event was an invite-only afternoon of panel discussions hosted by Seth Goldstein of SocialMedia. Attendees included about 50 developers, entrepreneurs, investors, and a couple of bloggers, and the discussions ranged from “When, if […]
August 15, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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Today in Boomtown, Kara Swisher talks about a management shuffle at Facebook. Among the apparent changes is the move of Owen Van Natta from COO to chief revenue officer and vice president of operations. Swisher elaborates saying: Van Natta now shares power–how uneasily it remains to be seen–with newly installed Vice President of Marketing and […]
August 7, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Advertising,
Social Media
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The Financial Times reports today that Central Office of Information (COI), the UK Government’s “center of excellence for marketing and communications,” has put a moratorium on advertising on social media sites like Facebook. COI organizes marketing campaigns to promote issues of public importance (education, health, welfare, etc.) for various UK Government departments. The organization announced […]
August 7, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Advertising,
Social Media
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The Financial Times reports today that Central Office of Information (COI), the UK Government’s “center of excellence for marketing and communications,” has put a moratorium on advertising on social media sites like Facebook. COI organizes marketing campaigns to promote issues of public importance (education, health, welfare, etc.) for various UK Government departments. The organization announced […]
July 30, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Developers,
Enterprise,
Social Media
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Over the past couple of months, I’ve noticed an unusually large increase in the number of my friends and former colleagues based in the UK that are joining Facebook. The recent surge in popularity of Facebook among my UK friends has me wondering: What lit a fire under so many people in non-overlapping networks to […]
July 25, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Financing,
Mobile
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Today, Nokia announced its acquisition of a small social media and media sharing platform company called Twango, which was founded by former Microsofters. While expensive (sources report the cost of nearly $100 Million), the acquisition has the potential to be a monumental game changer for Nokia. Regardless, it is a step in the right direction […]
July 23, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
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 27, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
(2) Comments
The folks at Activeweave (makers of Stickis, which I’ve written about before), have just introduced a great new website and plug-in called BlogRovr. BlogRovr is a great little tool aimed at blog enthusiasts. It allows you to see whatever your favorite bloggers have written about anywhere on-line. Here’s how it works: Visit Blogrovr.com and sign-up […]
March 7, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Mobile,
Review,
Social Media
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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 […]
