Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: August 20, 2008 (3)
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I’m getting more feedback that this digest is a success, I know have confirmation that leaders at the largest social networks (Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Google) and community platform read this digest, submissions are piling in, as savvy PR folks continue to submit –thank you. Always try to submit links in addition to press releases. I’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly digest on the Social Networking space, which I cover as an Industry ...
Private banking by shoebox (5)
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Realizing that many of its wealthy clients lack the time or patience to deal with their personal finances, Amsterdam-based private bank Insinger de Beaufort launched a new service that takes finances back to the basics: a shoebox. After sitting down with their private banker to discuss financial planning, Insinger's clients are sent a big shoebox by courier every month. They drop anything admin-related into the box: bills to be paid, bank statements, receipts, tax returns, ...
Bebo and Vogue.TV to Air New Fashion-Focused Web Series (2)
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A new series called Model.Live is debuting this week on Bebo (see here). As you may have guessed, the show is about models. Produced by IMG Media and Vogue.TV, this made-for-Web series follows three female models, Austria Alcantara, Cato van Ee and Madeline Kragh along their journeys from their homes to the catwalk. The show will premier on Vogue.TV tonight, and will be redistributed on Bebo, where each model will also have a profile for ...
Top 10 Online Note Taking Applications (35)
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Many of us prefer using online note taking applications for research, bookmarking sites, or quickly jotting down ideas. While there are many online note taking applications, we searched around the Web and compiled a list of those we felt were richer in features and usability. Here are the top ten, in no particular order. Which note taking applications do you use and why? Let us know in the comments. Evernote Evernote is one of the ...
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"Many of us prefer using online note taking applications for research, bookmarking sites, or quickly jotting down ideas. While there are many online note taking applications, we searched around the Web and compiled a list of those we felt were richer in features and usability."
PC gaming hits $10.7 billion in revenues worldwide & VentureBeat (3)
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Computer games have a perception problem amid the higher visibility of the console video game market. But the PC games industry isn’t anything to sneeze at, with worldwide sales of $10.7 billion in 2007. The PC Gaming Alliance. a group of hardware and software companies, released the figures from its “Horizons” report at the Games Convention Developers Conference in Leipzig, Germany — now the biggest industry trade show. Randy Stude, president of the PC Gaming ...
Real Estate Sites Are Holding Up, Despite The Housing Slump. Some (Trulia) Better Than Others (Zillow). (6)
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The real estate slump may still be helping to drag down the economy, but real-estate sites like Trulia and Zillow seem to be holding up just fine. In fact, the number of monthly unique visitors to Trulia has more than doubled to 2.4 million over the past year, according to comScore. Zillow, in contrast, remained steady at 1.9 million U.S. uniques in July. The strength of these real estate sites in a down market makes ...
The Human Piece Of The Venture Equation (12)
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We’ve been attending a lot of “demo days” in the past month and I am attending one more this week, TechStars in Boulder tomorrow. These startup accelerator programs, inspired by the success of Y Combinator, are launching something like 100 new web startups a year, possibly more. And the founding teams of all of these startups are young and inexperienced, mostly by design. That youth and inexperience is an asset to many of these startups. ...
Global Software Testing Network uTest Opens to All (9)
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Need your software tested for functionality, usability, and durability by a global supply chain of assessors? A company by the name of uTest, based in Ashland, Massachusetts, is today announcing the general availability of its network of service specialists for the software developer arena. The network is intended to offer a controlled, pseudo real-world trial of a particular application and present a quality feedback report, complete with bugs discovered and the like. It calls its ...
Michael Phelps Has One Million Facebook Fans (13)
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week and a half (and probably even if you have), you’ve undoubtedly heard the name Michael Phelps many, many times. The record setting swimmer from the US not only won an unprecedented eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, but is perhaps (and waaay more importantly) the longest running “trending topic” on Twitter search. And today the 23-year-old from Baltimore has yet another accomplishment to ...
Benjamin Ling and Facebook back-story (8)
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Here’s one certainty in the hubbub that has resulted in the wake of the departure of high-profile exec Ben Ling from Facebook last week: COO Sheryl Sandberg is definitely not responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps. That’s the joking question–Was global warming Sandberg’s fault too?–that was asked at a staff meeting at the social networking start-up last Friday afternoon, after the news of Ling’s departure, on the heels of some other previous ...
A first look at the Google Android SDK (14)
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Google released a beta version of the software development kit for its Android mobile operating system earlier today to much fanfare, but in the rush of breaking the news we only just got a chance to examine the details. There have been some puzzling changes, like the removal of an API for Bluetooth compatibility, but you shouldn’t draw too many conclusions from this beta release as it doesn’t really reflect the current status of the ...
