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Yahoo Shuts Down Mash, 0-4 On Social Networking (13)
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First came 360, launched in 2005 as an early attempt to get Yahoo into social networking, was unceremoniously shut down earlier this year. In 2006 Yahoo was unable to close a transaction with Facebook, despite being willing to pay up to $1.62 billion. Nor could they pull the trigger on a $1 billion Bebo deal (Bebo went to AOL for $850 million). Now Yahoo has shut down Mash, which launched less than a year ago ...Shared by Archit T (8) Bret Taylor (12) dobata (293) GP (36) Hisham (21) Jason (6) Jess (0) Josh (6) Michael (12) Mojtaba (17) sarahintampa (79) Satyajeet (0) tommyp (2)- tommyp said: ooopsy daisy
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Yahoo Shuts Down Mash. (21)
onIn an email to users today, Yahoo announced that its year old social network Yahoo Mash will be shutting down on September 29. ...Shared by Archit T (8) Bob Caswell (15) Bret Taylor (12) GP (36) Hisham (21) Jason (6) Jess (0) Jonas (4) jonas (4) Josh (6) MG (32) Michael (12) Mojtaba (17) Oneupweb (4) pixelcollector (3) Richmarcia (0) Satyajeet (0) Scott Schnaars (2) small (11) tommyp (2) yoshy (284)Explore read four notes
- Satyajeet said: Awww...
- Scott Schnaars said: Awesome group of people. Sorry to see it go down like this.
- small said: Wow, that didnt last long. Facebook is owning, I dont even know why they bothered with Yahoo Mash. Its good to hear but they are closing things down, Yahoo has way too many services online.
- tommyp said: ooopsy daisy
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Amazon Acquires Shelfari (4)
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Congrats to Josh Hug and the gang at Shelfari for joining the Amazon.com family. I was an early angel investor in Shelfari and have been a long time avid user of the service. Amazon was an investor in the first round and the two companies fit naturally together. I invested in three vertical social networks in 2006 - Shelfari (books), Dogster (dogs and cats), and Enthusiast Group (sports). So far I have one win (Shelfari) ...Contribute comment -
What’s So Social about Sign-in? (13)
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Just recently I published a new pattern, Sign-in Continuity, to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. It could be filed under “Engagement,” a category we have internally but that hasn’t appeared yet here, but I decided to put it in the “Social” category instead. The pattern is about making sure that a user’s momentum isn’t robbed when they want to participate in a community and have to be challenged for their login credentials in order to ...Shared by (jeff)isageek (48) aemkei (2) AJ (154) Brian Antonelli (4) David (11) Jason (6) Kingsley (0) koles (1) Michael (18) nelson (11) Nick (0) pelles (9) YuSuPh (0)Contribute comment -
'Where to' might not be as important as 'how loud' (38)
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Here's what they say to you when you graduate: "What are you going to do now?" And here's what they say to you when you're about to leave on vacation: "Where are you going?" In marketing (and thus, in life) it might be a lot more important to know, "How are you going to do the next thing?" or "How are you going to do your vacation?" Direction is drilled into us. Picking the right ...Shared by Abhilash (16) aElian (0) Badger Gravling (51) Benjamin Shyong (7) billspaced (8) Daniel (7) Daniel C (4) Darin R. McClure (18) derrickkwa (9) Dr. Ernie (48) DrBaher (0) ekaye (4) Gauravonomics (39) gavoweb (8) ghuth (1) Jason (6) Jay (1) jmather (0) Josh Lawton (0) jproffitt (1) Julius (26) Kartik Agaram (3) Krrrazy (0) Kyle (66) Lee (4) lizunlong (4) Matthew (3) mcescobar1 (0) MichaelMJ (5) noel (16) Ozgur Alaz, Marketallica (15) paul.grayson (0) Rick Mahn (7) rishabh (3) Simon (1) skriv (8) theCan (1) wrburgess (1)- Jay said: Life will take a lot of directions. If even choosing the direction is very slow, all opportunities along with it are lost. If we are fastly switching directions, we might never understand we are still on the same place where we started. Life Decisions & Directions are very important, but yet, they have to made at the right time/moment.
- mcescobar1 said: Great advise for life as well as marketing
- ghuth said: more awesomeness from Seth. Very appropriate to parts of our business.
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Community Platforms: Here Comes The CIO (17)
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I’m currently doing an intensive 3 month research project on the topic of Community Platforms, and it’s become very clear that by talking to many of the 27 brands and 9 vendors where many decisions are currently being made to purchase these enterprise software solutions. To start with, many solutions (define as a set of software, services, support) are being purchased by marketers who want to bring a social aspect to their corporate website. These ...Shared by Aadje (0) chrisbrogan.com (22) Christopher (39) Daan (9) David Henderson (4) Gauravonomics (39) Jason (6) jeffglasson (0) kamikyo (8) Kyle (66) Lithosphere (7) Pete (3) Rick Mahn (7) Roger Kondrat (1) Sam (13) Ted Eytan (3) Tung (0)Contribute comment -
Amazon Acquires Shelfari: Moves To Corner Book-Centric Social Networks (35)
onShelfari, a social network for bibliophiles, has been acquired by Amazon for an undisclosed amount. Amazon has been a longtime supporter of the Seattle based startup, having invested $1 million in the site in February 2007. The move comes less than a month after Amazon’s acquisition of AbeBooks, a vendor of rare and used books from independent publishers. As part of that acquisition Amazon also got a stake in Shelfari’s competitor LibraryThing, which AbeBooks had ...Shared by Aaron (5) Ben (2) Ben Turner (35) btocher (3) CB (12) ceri (7) Chris Unwin (0) Dave (15) Dennis' Library (3) DrBaher (0) GP (36) iAlja (23) iemz (0) jaehyun (1) Jason (6) Jason Nielubowicz (17) Jochen Mai (1) Jonathan Sterling (8) kidakaka (0) Leon Ridge-Cooke (34) Linkletter (5) Marcos Toledo (0) Matt Dickman (0) Michelynn (2) mr94 (10) Nihar (19) Patrick (16) pkj (9) richhand (14) RJO (14) Roseanne (2) spolay (6) StevieB (37) Trindade (22) voidfiles (11)
- Jochen Mai said: Ein weiteres Puzzelstückchen bei Amazon?
- jaehyun said: 발전 가능성이 있는 서비스야.. 특히 인터넷 서점 한테는..
- Jason Nielubowicz said: I still prefer GoodReads myself, but I'll have to keep an eye on Shelfari now.
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Amazon Acquires Shelfari: Moves To Corner Book-Centric Social Networks (34)
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Shelfari, a social network for bibliophiles, has been acquired by Amazon for an undisclosed amount. Amazon has been a longtime supporter of the Seattle based startup, having invested $1 million in the site in February 2007. The move comes less than a month after Amazon’s acquisition of AbeBooks, a vendor of rare and used books from independent publishers. As part of that acquisition Amazon also got a stake in Shelfari’s competitor LibraryThing, which AbeBooks had ...Shared by Aaron (5) Ben (2) btocher (3) ceri (7) Chris Unwin (0) Cosmin (3) Daniele Beta (15) Dave (15) Dennis' Library (3) DrBaher (0) iemz (0) jaehyun (1) Jake McKee (3) Jason (6) Jason Nielubowicz (17) Jay Liew (9) JayCrossler (0) Jeffrey (31) Jochen Mai (1) kidakaka (0) leafar (1) Leon Ridge-Cooke (34) Linkletter (5) Marcos Toledo (0) Matt Dickman (0) Michelynn (2) mr94 (10) nicolas.boullosa (4) Patrick (16) pkj (9) Robyn Miller (8) Roseanne (2) spolay (6) Trindade (22)Explore read four notes- JayCrossler said: I really like Shelfari - I pull it up all the time in bookstores to get ratings on books I want to buy.
- Jason Nielubowicz said: I still prefer GoodReads myself, but I'll have to keep an eye on Shelfari now.
- jaehyun said: 발전 가능성이 있는 서비스야.. 특히 인터넷 서점 한테는..
- Jochen Mai said: Ein weiteres Puzzelstückchen bei Amazon?
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13 Free and Cheap Website Monitoring Services (37)
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Everyone seems to have their own website or blog nowadays. But do you want someone else to tell you your site is down? So what do you do? Corporate IT shops can install some fancy monitoring software suite that can track hundreds of types of software, servers, ports and hardware devices. That monitoring software also normally costs hundreds of thousands for dollars. Most likely, you want to monitor your website for free, or at least ...Shared by Abdul Jaleel (14) AC Valentine (6) AJ (154) Angelito (4) arturo.servin (8) assbach (15) Ben Shoemate (4) Bjoern (24) Brandy (5) Dadone (14) Deb (5) Derek Lerner (1) Eliacin (19) elsterama (30) gocrawford (1) GP (36) iAlja (23) James (0) Jason (6) Jawad Shuaib (9) Josh (17) Josh (6) leedsjimbo (21) Melissa Attree, GetOn eMarketing (7) mr.petruccio (23) OGG (1) Pascal (0) Paul Helmick (24) Rahul Gaitonde (15) Ricardo.Borelli (4) riwilo (6) Rob (90) toddoneill (0) Travis Tubbs (4) Trindade (22) wwdj (8) xxdesmus (48)Contribute comment -
13 Free and Cheap Website Monitoring Services (58)
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Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by mmmleisa to tools monitoring webdesign webmaster website web uptime webdev webapps services - More about this bookmarkShared by Abdul Jaleel (14) Angelito (4) ani625 (57) Ann Smarty (7) arturo.servin (8) assbach (15) brandon (0) Brandon J. Mendelson (1) Brandy (5) Brian Stearns (1) Dadone (14) Dave Woodard (7) David Gutowski (7) Deb (5) Derek Lerner (1) Donald Jenkins (1) Etcetera (0) Fabrice Epelboin (3) Geert De Laet (5) giu (9) gocrawford (1) Greg Lavallee (4) Guy (537) igeldard (19) Ivan Lanin (4) James (0) james swanson (0) Jason (6) Jason Emerick (7) Jawa Buddhavarapu (22) Jawad Shuaib (9) Johannes Tröger (0) Jose Viveiros (3) Josh (6) Kyle James (25) leedsjimbo (21) Luis Suarez (21) Marc Beharry (36) Melissa Attree, GetOn eMarketing (7) Niki1601 (9) OGG (1) orc (10) Pascal (0) prexec (1) reve100 (1) Ricardo.Borelli (4) riwilo (6) Ross V (276) Sean Ammirati (0) Shey (45) Steven T (12) Thomas N. Burg (1) toddoneill (0) Travis Tubbs (4) Trindade (22) wwdj (8) xxdesmus (48) yoshy (284)Contribute comment -
Social Networking Trends from Coast to Coast (10)
onResidents of Massachusetts and California led the nation in googling the term “social networking” during the last 12 months according to Google Insights for Search, a new search analysis tool. Launched on August 6, Google Insights for Search is a free service that allows users to track the popularity of phrases and words that have been typed into Google’s search engine from 2004 until the present day. The resource enables users to sort data by ...Shared by Alex Plank (3) Ann Smarty (7) BostonDave2005 (6) Jason (6) Joe (6) Live & Direct (28) Matt (1) PlanningQueen (6) Rebecca (7) Retta (5)
- BostonDave2005 said: For SEO - this is an amazing resource!
- Alex Plank said: Reston Virginia houses some big tech companies like aol systems operations, microsoft , and oracle
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Monkeys with megaphones (25)
onJack points us to this regularly updated collection of inane, indecipherable or insulting comments from YouTube. When will it get better? Now that everyone has their own channel, their own newspaper, their own station, it's pretty shocking how low the average has sunk. The question is: will it be so noisy and offensive that the rest of us just tune it out completely? Do you care enough to dig through the pond scum comments to ...Shared by AJ (154) Alec McNayr (20) angol (10) Calisto (3) CW (8) Donna Mugavero (3) Emil (6) Erik (13) Jason (6) Jeff (0) Jonas (0) jproffitt (1) Lech Ambrzykowski (7) Lee (0) Logan (0) Matt (2) Matthew (3) minoru yokoo (0) Paul (5) plindberg (9) rexy (23) rzklkng (58) SAWagner30 (5) Tobey (1) Yandle (2)Contribute comment
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My Internet Law (7)
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The time and money required to produce (design, develop, secure, test, launch, scale) a typical data-oriented form application on the web drops in half every 2 years.This seems to have held true since the public emergence of the web in 1994. Do you agree? I don't have much hard data, but McCain proposes new internet laws with far less. For example, I recall the large systems integration firms charging as much as $20 mlllion to ...Contribute comment -
Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source; Wants to be the WordPress of Social Bookmarking (31)
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Social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia is going open source, announcing plans to allow anyone to download their code and run their own version of the service under a GPL license. While the project - dubbed M2 - won’t officially launch until next month, the company is launching Ma.gnolia.org today, which includes a project charter, preliminary documentation, and a discussion group. While more established competitor Reddit launched their own open source initiative back in June, the goals ...Shared by Alex (1) Apostlion (0) aroyer (4) Bjoern (24) BostonDave2005 (6) Chris Messina (18) David Bradley (16) Esther Schindler (19) G$ (3) Gerard (3) gort581 (26) Jason (6) Joe Dillon (2) John Bowersox (1) John LeMasney (2) Juergen Eichholz (2) Just A Clerk (1) kristin (4) Laura Norvig (11) lisamac (1) Mike (1) Ognjen (20) Stef Lewandowski (5) Tara Hunt (4) Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (34) tjd1 (0) Todd (3) Uno (5) Wayne Smallman (21) webtime (355) Wismark (0)- Ognjen said: it’s an interesting offering for niche publishers, as it allows their audience to share links about their given topic. With established social bookmarking services like Delicious, Digg, and Reddit commanding the lion’s share of traffic, taking a distributed approach may be the smartest play for Ma.gnolia
- gort581 said: Here's an opportunity for a news organization to put up their own little link collector to let their readers share local news/info/fun with each other...
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Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source; Wants to be the WordPress of Social Bookmarking (34)
onSocial bookmarking service Ma.gnolia is going open source, announcing plans to allow anyone to download their code and run their own version of the service under a GPL license. While the project - dubbed M2 - won’t officially launch until next month, the company is launching Ma.gnolia.org today, which includes a project charter, preliminary documentation, and a discussion group. While more established competitor Reddit launched their own open source initiative back in June, the goals ...Shared by ~C4Chaos (63) AJ (154) Alex (1) Ali (32) Apostlion (0) arturo.servin (8) BostonDave2005 (6) David Bradley (16) Eric (18) G$ (3) Gerard (3) gort581 (26) graywolf (13) Jason (6) Jeff (5) Joe Dillon (2) jqueryboy (20) Just A Clerk (1) Mike (1) Mike F (355) Navid (49) Niklas (19) pablo (12) PiAir (20) Quasidot (22) Sean (11) shark (17) Stef Lewandowski (5) svartling (23) tjd1 (0) Toby (11) Uno (5) whatevernevermind (8) Wismark (0)
- Sean said: Watching Ma.gnolia announcement on ustream from Gnomedex right now.
- gort581 said: Here's an opportunity for a news organization to put up their own little link collector to let their readers share local news/info/fun with each other...
- Jeff said: I was thinking that this might be an opportunity for internal, enterprise social bookmarking. But if all of the bookmarks are still fed into ma.gnolia's main site, then that isn't going to be the case.
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Gluing EventVue and Twitter Together (4)
onAt Foundry Group, one of our investment themes is Glue. We've done a handful of investments in this area, including Gnip. Since Gnip's launch last month, it's been put into production in a number of cases - some obvious, some subtle. Part of the fun is watching the adoption of it evolve rapidly as we continue to build out the core capabilities of the what Gnip can do. I had a long conversation with a ...
- Goldie Katsu said: This is one of the local (Boulder) blogs I read, so sometimes I'm reading more for the links. I think the Glue investment theme (and investment themes in general) is interesting and the Gnip idea is a nice one. And with Thin Air Summit coming up I'm actually interested to see what EvenVue has to offer.
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What Facebook’s New ‘Engagement Advertising’ Means to Brands (31)
on</Update: Only a few brands will trial these new ads, after testing, will then be broadly released later in the year. A few days ago, I had a private briefing before the press with Tim Kendall, Director of Monetization at Facebook, below are the findings, with specific recommendations for brands. As I get more information, such as results and data, I’ll update this post. Web Strategy Summary (90 Words) Facebook launched a new product called ...Shared by Adam (10) Alex Andrek (10) Blueblood (0) Carmen Leilani (16) Daan (9) dinesh tantri (1) Ed Terpening (0) etorsten (8) Frank (2) GP (36) Herschell / Special*Dark (9) iAlja (23) Jaime Macias (7) Jason (6) jgodoy (2) Jim (7) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (30) Jose Viveiros (3) Kristen Lindsey (6) Laurent Courtines (0) Leslie Chacon (1) Matt Dickman (0) Mike F (355) Ozgur Alaz, Marketallica (15) prexec (1) Régis Kuckaertz (7) Roberto Ayala (0) Sarah (0) Stanley (10) Stephanie Gulley (14) Stephen Rothman (3)
- Laurent Courtines said: Note to the world. Make ads that actually have value and you may get engagement on a social net. Put the user first and biz goals second.
- Herschell / Special*Dark said: now that i'm prepared to know why to ignore... :)
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