FreshBooks Launches Industry Benchmarking Service to Help Increase Performance (1)
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Toronto-based online invoicing service FreshBooks has announced the launch of an industry benchmarking service to help freelancers and small businesses make better decisions about their business. The service seems very similar to what PubMatic offers with their AdPrice Index. Basically FreshBooks takes anonymous data, aggregates the data and provides it back to site visitors so they can compare their actual numbers with the reported data. The data will be updated quarterly and can be broken ...
Wix Picks Up $3.5 Million Series B Funding (1)
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NY-based Wix has announced that they have raised a Series B round of funding in the amount of $3.5 million. This is in addition to the previously raised $3.5 million Series A round and $1.2 million angel round. The company notes that this new round of funding came from Mangrove Venture Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. Wix also notes that the funding will go towards marketing and product development. Wix allows people to easily create ...
Eyealike VisualAd Hopes to Match Photos With Ads and Increase Social Network Monetization (1)
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We first reported on Eyealike a year ago when they launched their "dating service based on looks only" application. The idea was simple: upload a photo of a hottie and Eyealike will find other hotties on the dating service that match the "features" of the hottie you uploaded. Today Eyealike is announcing the launch of Eyealike VisualAd which aims to help social networks and other content sites generate more revenue based on matching images on ...
Seesmic Cuts 7 Positions Today; 10 Positions in a Month (3)
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Seesmic CEO Loic LeMeur has reported today that he has cut 7 headcount from the Seesmic workforce today. This is in addition to the 3 people who were let go last month. I've reached out to Loic to get an idea of how what percentage of total employees this headcount reduction accounts for - when I met Loic at the Seesmic office last month, it seemed like there were about 10 people there but I ...
The Kirkpatrick Blogger Pay Survey Debunked (4)
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Yesterday ReadWriteWeb Content VP Marshall Kirkpatrick posted the results of a survey that apparently looked at "Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media Consultants" and the current pay they receive. The title doesn't mention tech bloggers but Marshall notes that the survey only went to "20 top-tier tech bloggers and social media consultants". I wonder what makes someone a top social media consultant. More importantly only 10 people participated in the survey. That in itself makes ...
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Wow. Assuming that Allen's got his facts correct here, this is important background information that needs to be known and weighed in conjunction with the RWW article.
Fitbit Grabs $2 Million in Venture Capital Funding (4)
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Allen Stern via CenterNetworks shared by 4 people We initially covered Fitbit when they provided a look at their technology last month. The Fitbit Tracker looks like a large paperclip and tracks a variety of physical activities as you move around with the device attached to your clothing. Today the company is announcing they have raised $2 million in venture capital funding. Fitbit notes that True Ventures led the funding round with additional investment by ...
Find Your Next Job on the CN Job Board (1)
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Below are some of the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you. If you are in the UK, Mike Butcher at Techcrunch is running a free special for all kinds of postings (want/need jobs, etc.) this week only. Looks like a good variety of developer opportunities. Featured Jobs: Sr. Flash Designer, Web - Photobucket Sales ...
Verizon Triples SMS Marketing Rates; Will it Affect Twitter? (1)
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Mobile Marketer is reporting that Verizon Wireless has "decided to levy a 3-cent transaction fee for every outbound SMS message sent to its subscriber base". One of the immediate questions is whether the other carriers will follow suit. For some marketers this charge is double or triple what they are currently paying. The article explains that this will affect a variety of service providers, "The rate increase will affect heavy users of legitimate outbound SMS ...
Mahalo Up and Down More Than the Stock Market (1)
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Reports have been arriving in my inbox and on Twitter that Mahalo has been up and down the past couple of days. In my testing today, I get error messages on about 65% of page loads. So far no official word from Mahalo except postings that they are doing a movie screening tonight We are also hearing that Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis is planning to reveal the new Mahalo 2.0 later this week at the ...
MyPunchbowl Relaunches With Slick Design Studio (1)
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Boston-based event planning service MyPunchbowl has announced that they have completely relaunched the service today. Last month the company raised $2.1 million in venture capital funding. The big piece of their relaunch is the new Design Studio feature. The basic idea of Design Studio is that it allows you to very heavily customize a save the date or event invitation. Anything can be customized from photos, colors and text. What's neat is that everything is ...
CollegeWikis Raises $2 Million for Collegiate Information Source (1)
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NY-based collegiate information resource CollegeWikis has announced that they have raised $2 million in venture capital today. From the announcement, The funding round led by HighBAR Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm founded by Bill Joy, Andreas Bechtolsheim, and Roy Thiele-Sardiña. Richmond Management, eCoast Angel Network, and Boston Harbor Angels also participated. Thiele-Sardiña will join CollegeWikis Board of Directors as part of this financing. They are quick to note that CollegeWikis is not a ...
Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Schwag Bag Video (1)
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Today I headed over to the Javits Center for the Search Marketing Expo. Below is a video of what's in their schwag bag. One thing that I left at the conference was the 500-700 page binder of all of the slides and session materials. No idea why they still see a need to print these out - why not stick a printer next to the registration desk and let attendees select which sessions they want ...
Matt Mullenweg on the Future of Wordpress (1)
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Yesterday we posted videos from Wordpress co-founder Matt Mullenweg on the State of Wordpress, a Wordpress 2.7 demo and today we have the last piece of his keynote. This last piece focuses on the future of Wordpress. Matt discusses a variety of topics including: upgrades, security, rich media, Wordpress as a hub, backpress and buddypress. Buddypress looks pretty strong - basically it allows you to easily insert a social network inside your blog. Many of ...
Matt Mullenweg Demo of Wordpress 2.7 | CenterNetworks (16)
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Earlier today we posted the "State of the Word" presentation by Wordpress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. After his presentation, Matt spent some time demonstrating the upcoming 2.7 release of Wordpress. I've embedded the video below. Wordpress 2.7 will be available in November. Matt begins by explaining that eventually everything in Wordpress will have an associated API for extending the service. The new interface looks awesome. The posting functionality of Wordpress is one of the things I ...
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Listen to the video and get an idea of the really bloody cool stuff coming in 2.7 Wordpress
WordCamp NYC: Matt Mullenweg on the State of Wordpress (video) | CenterNetworks (4)
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Today in NYC WordCamp was held at the Sun Microsystems HQ. A big thanks to Jonathan Dingman for organizing everything... having been to many "camps", this one was better organized than most. Wordpress co-founder Matt Mullenweg provided the keynote address and I was able to capture all of it on video. I've split the videos into three parts: current state of Wordpress, a walkthrough of the upcoming 2.7 release and the future of Wordpress. Below ...
Google Blogsearch is No Techmeme Killer | CenterNetworks (2)
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Earlier this week Google Blogsearch relaunched with an aggregator of sorts. Immediately several sites including ReadWriteWeb claimed it was a "Techmeme killer". The truth is that Google Blogsearch won't kill or injure Techmeme and I've created the video embedded below to outline the main reason why. There are a variety of good posts on the Google Blogsearch/Techmeme killer topic including: Rob Diana, Steven Hodson, Duncan Riley, Josh Catone and Svetlana Gladkova. Sean Percival had a ...
Friendster Gets Friendly With Facebook Applications (2)
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Last month at the Web 2.0 Expo, none of the major U.S. social networks had an expo booth. But one of the most talked about booths was Friendster and their sign that read "#1 in Asia". Apparently Friendster has over 60 million users in Asia. Tonight Friendster has announced that Facebook applications are now portable overview to the Friendster developer platform. In essence if you have a Facebook application, you can now expose it to ...
The First Marriage Insurance Web Startup - SafeGuard Guaranty (1)
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SafeGuard Guaranty presented their service this morning at the BootStrapperSummit. SafeGuard Guaranty offers "marriage insurance" through a Web application. Apparently the longer you stay with your mate, the more the policy is worth. This isn't the normal Web app we cover on CN but I thought it might give you a look into a totally different type of Web application. Near the middle of the demo below, the presenter speaks about the marketing channels they ...
