A Horse Head in My Bank Account (2)
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picture by Wikipedia Come, young entrepreneurs, sit down, I have a story to tell. About four years or so ago, I started a search marketing agency with a friend. But you know that. About a year or so into Current Wisdom, we were generating quite a bit of money. But you know that, too. Around that time, I began to party. A lot. But you know that too. What you dont know, is that during ...
Pure-Play Aggregators: A Traffic Update (3)
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Compete released the stats for August, with mixed news for the pure-play Social Web Aggregators. Plaxo continued to see nice growth, clocking 244% year-over-year growth and 11% month-over month growth in monthly unique visitors. FriendFeed, on the other hand, experienced a bit of a stall, with a tiny drop in monthly unique visitors compared with July. SocialThing (recently acquired by AOL) got a traffic increase from the news of its acquisition, but total monthly unique ...
Yep, It's True, AOL To Acquire SocialThing (1)
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A few weeks ago Mike Arrington gave me a call asking me if, my employer, AOL, had acquired SocialThing. Though it struck very close to home, I had to bite my tongue since the deal had not yet closed and did not comment on the matter. Now that is has been officially released, I can. It is true, AOL has entered into an agreement to acquire SocialThing, the Boulder, Colorado based social aggregating lifestream startup. ...
Tag Clouds for Our Lifestreams (20)
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We are marching down the lifestreaming road. There are a proliferation of lifestream apps, such as FriendFeed, SocialThing, Strands, Swurl and others. Lifestreaming is getting hotter, and there’s some thought that lifestreaming will be the new blogging: Sites and social tools like these and many others encourage more participation on the social web than ever before. Although the social participants on these sites are often more active in socializing than they are in blogging, there’s ...
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I'd want this with a historical timeline cloud, something organic to display greater context of me and me over time
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Mark Dykeman said:
Sure, I'd like to have something like Hutch describes in his post.
SocialOyster Searches For Your Friends’ Online Life (1)
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There are many lifestreaming services trying to put our online social life together, such as FriendFeed, SocialThing! etc. Here comes another one called SocialOyster. Developed by Marcus Reimold from Cologne, SocialOyster is only two weeks old, at very early stage but it does bring something interesting. Three services now can be found on SocialOyster: 1. The Oysterpass – here you can create an overview of your social activities. It currently supports around 20 popular online ...
SocialOyster Searches For Your Friends’ Online Life (1)
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There are many lifestreaming services trying to put our online social life together, such as FriendFeed, SocialThing! etc. Here comes another one called SocialOyster. Developed by Marcus Reimold from Cologne, SocialOyster is only two weeks old, at very early stage but it does bring something interesting. Three services now can be found on SocialOyster: 1. The Oysterpass – here you can create an overview of your social activities. It currently supports around 20 popular online ...
Tweetdeck - Twitter desktop application (1)
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Tweetdeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that brings Twitter to the desktop of Mac and PC in the most readable format yet. Tweetdeck uses column layouts to arrange Tweets however you like. The default columns are All Tweets, Replies, Direct, but Tweetdeck’s functionality allows you to add/remove columns and custom ‘build’ your own columns - even group certain Twitter users to their own column. It also gives you on screen notifications of new Tweets ...
SociAOL Thing (3)
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Last week it was confirmed that SocialThing!, a 2007 TechStars team was acquired by AOL. The Inquisitr has an interesting post on why it is great to be purchased by AOL. TechCrunch was on the story first with many other fine news outlets piling on details. The SocialThing! team is staying in Boulder, setting up a more permanent office and working on the product just like they have done for the last two years. But ...
Confirmed: AOL Acquires Lifestreaming Service Socialthing (10)
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We’ve received confirmation from AOL that the company has acquired Socialthing!, a lifestreaming service that competes with FriendFeed. We originally reported the deal on August 1. AOL says that the Socialthing! team will report to SVP of AOL and GM of People Networks David Liu, and will be incorporated into its People Networks division. Socialthing’s lifestreaming will be integrated into a number of AOL’s community properties, including its social network Bebo and AIM, its popular ...
C’est confirmé, AOL acquiert SocialThing (3)
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Comme nous l’avions annoncé, AOL vient d’acquérir Socialthing!, un site qui propose un flux d’activités et qui est en concurrence avec notamment FriendFeed. L’équipe de SocialThing intégrera le département PeopleNetwork de AOL menè par David Liu. Le produit sera inséré dans divers services d’AOL existants comme Bebo et sa messagerie instantanée AIM. Cette acquisition survient au cours d’une période que l’on peut qualifier de difficile pour AOl qui a procédé récemment à de nombreuses reductions ...
Why Does AOL Need Two Lifestreaming Services, SocialThing and Buddyupdates? (2)
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Today Caroline McCarthy reports that the rumors about AOL buying SocialThing have been confirmed. Frank Gruber has provided some of the background details about how the startup made its first steps and finally reached this acquisition. SocialThing is a startup that serves as an aggregator for various online services (not many of them for now with a strange omission of regular RSS feeds). SocialThing is obviously one of the competitors to Friendfeed but even after ...
AOL Acquires Lifestreaming Service Socialthing (6)
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In a move that aims at shoring up AOL’s stable of social networks, the company announced today that it has acquired Socialthing!, pending the satisfaction of certain undisclosed closing conditions. After the acquisition closes, AOL says that Socialthing will become a part of the company’s People Networks division. Currently, AOL’s People Networks division is made up of social platforms, like Bebo, AIM, ICQ, Goowy, and Yedda, that AOL believes, will lead the company’s online presence ...
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Living without twitter or how that didn’t work! (2)
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Early this week, I said I was going to try to just stay off of twitter entirely. See if I could do it. With business the way it currently is at Lookery and all the cool data that is being shown for free - it was simply impossible! Now many people don’t believe that twitter’s way of communicating is effective business, but we seem to thrive on it with a tweet or three a week. ...
Yep, It's True, AOL To Acquire SocialThing (1)
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A few weeks ago Mike Arrington gave me a call asking me if, my employer, AOL, had acquired SocialThing. Though it struck very close to home, I had to bite my tongue since the deal had not yet closed and did not comment on the matter. Now that is has been officially released, I can. It is true, AOL has entered into an agreement to acquire SocialThing, the Boulder, Colorado based social aggregating lifestream startup. ...
AOL Acquires Lifestreaming Service Socialthing (14)
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In a move that aims at shoring up AOL’s stable of social networks, the company announced today that it has acquired Socialthing!, pending the satisfaction of certain undisclosed closing conditions. After the acquisition closes, AOL says that Socialthing will become a part of the company’s People Networks division. Currently, AOL’s People Networks division is made up of social platforms, like Bebo, AIM, ICQ, Goowy, and Yedda, that AOL believes, will lead the company’s online presence ...
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SocialThing Acquired by AOL (2)
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The big news tonight is that AOL has acquired the lifestreaming service, SocialThing. This acquisition is by AOL’s People Networks division. Frank Gruber, who is one of the primary product managers in that division, announced the acquisition on his blog tonight. There’s no word on how much the company was acquired for but you can pretty much guarantee that it’s nowhere near the $850 million AOL spent on Bebo. It’s most likely closer to the ...
AOL buys Socialthing, at last (2)
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AOL had been eyeing the acquisition of the lifestreaming service, Socialthing a close competitor of Friendfeed. The deal had been shaping up since the star of this month and had been reported by us. However the present news has it that the deal has been confirmed (as reported by Caroline MsCarthy) and that the Socialthing team is asked to report to David Lui; SVP of AOL and GM of People Networks. The team is said ...
AOL Acquires Socialthing! (2)
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It’s been confirmed that AOL has purchased lifestreaming aggregator SocialThing! for an undisclosed amount, according to this post on TechCrunch: AOL says that the Socialthing! team will report to SVP of AOL and GM of People Networks David Liu, and will be incorporated into its People Networks division. Socialthing’s lifestreaming will be integrated into a number of AOL’s community properties, including its social network Bebo and AIM, its popular chat service. The acquisition comes during ...
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The deal isn't finalized yet, but AOL will acquire Colorado-based startup SocialThing, News.com reports. Best known for a raging party it threw at this year's South By Southwest conference, SocialThing also aggregates an Internet user's feeds and activity from sites like Flickr and Twitter. If that sounds familiar, its because you've subjected yourself to the ramblings of people like Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington or Robert Scoble who use a similar service called FriendFeed and talk ...Shared by rwonline (23)Contribute comment
