Tag Archive | "techcrunch"
September 25, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Mobile,
Social Media
(5) Comments
Yelp burned a bridge with me this week, and I’m defecting to the Rummble beta. Rummble is London-based mobile + web 2.0 start-up that provides geographically relevant recommendations and reviews from likeminded people. My frustration with Yelp started when I got an email from my dentists’ office… Earlier this year, I wrote a glowing review […]
August 1, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Mobile,
Review
(3) Comments
The line: I spent 4 years living in England, the rumored birthplace of queuing. I know the rules of standing in a line, and I respect a good queue. It avoids people trampling on each other, and that’s a good thing. But, when a line is 1/4 mile and 3+ hours long, count me out. […]
June 13, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
(1) Comment
And the number one social network in the world is…IT’S A TIE! Facebook just caught up to MySpace. The race to the top gets more and more interesting. Stay tuned…
January 4, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Enterprise,
Social Media
(5) Comments
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 […]
December 22, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Consulting,
Contest,
Events,
Social Media
(3) Comments
My client, ShoZu, has been nominated in the Crunchies Award as Best Mobile Start-up. This award is co-produced by TechCrunch, Read/Write Web, VentureBeat and GigaOm. Major sponsors include: Adobe, Microsoft, Sun and a few venture funds. Please head to the voting link, http://vote.crunchies.techcrunch.com/ scroll to the mobile category and vote for ShoZu. You can vote […]
July 23, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Financing,
Social Media
(0) Comments
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 […]
February 27, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
(0) Comments
I read a great review of Ning in yesterday’s TechCrunch. So, today, I thought I’d give it a whirl myself. Michael Arrington’s review was right on the money… Ning is pretty cool! It lets you create your own customized social network – complete with RSS feeds, blogs, forums, and more. Almost everything is customiseable – […]
January 11, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
(1) Comment
Today, the self-proclaimed “tech gossip rag,” Valleywag, published the following graph, suggesting that Social Networking is past its peak from a media coverage perspective: 011107-valleywag Valleywag writes: The social network — the umbrella term for features of a website which allow users to track their friends — is past its peak. Mentions in the press […]
December 13, 2006 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
(2) Comments
The World is abuzz today with all sorts of interesting news relevant to social media/ social networking. Here are some teasers with links to keep you occupied with plenty of great reading: MySpace is apparently the biggest site on the internet in terms of the number of page views. Fox Interactive (largely MySpace) surpassed Yahoo, […]
