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MySpace Lose 3 Top Execs, and the World Gains A New Startup
The news came out late yesterday about MySpace’s COO Amit Kapur stepping down and taking with him 2 other high level executives, Jim Benedetto, Senior Vice President of Technology and Steve Pearman, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy. I first read the breaking story via BoomTown, other writers have had a chance to do a ...
Socialtext – Keeping It Inside The Company
Socialtext is aiming to do what other competitors in the space are trying to do, and that is to keep the corporate chatter inside the company. While the competition is starting to heat up, with the latest release, it appears that they are digging in for an enterprise installation and adaptation. One difference that I ...
Playlist.io is the newest applet from Drop.io
Playlist.io is described as the easiest way to move your music to the cloud for quick access. It is also the latest applet from the company that has seen the light of the cloud, drop.io. The video demo that drop.io set up shows how easy it is to drop your music to the cloud. Along ...
Not Quite Mainstream – Twitter
When does twitter become mainstream? That is a question I think that many truly wonder. It’s too mainstream for CenterNetworks to cover anymore. Allen threw his hands up in the air last month and declared that he would no longer be writing about every twitter app that is coming down the stream to him. Every ...
Forget Bailouts and Business Models – Global is Key – Europe Startups Starving – Index Gets €350 Million Euros to Reboot Entrepreneurship
While other venture capitalists are squabbling about bailouts and business models, Index is going for Europe. Index Ventures just raised €350 million Euro fund ($442 million) to jumpstart (or reboot) the European startup landscape. I am in Europe right now traveling from London through the Netherlands, and I can see first hand that the startup ...
Monday DEMO Coverage Round-Up (Part 2)
Part two of our DEMO coverage, we’re including today demonstrations scheduled for the conference. These are the demonstrators for today with links to other takes around the blogosphere and beyond, as well as what Rex, John and I thought based on our viewings of the demonstrations.
Be Vigilant: Two Worms to Watch Out For
Just read that the Koobface worm that has plagued Facebook is back once again. The popular social networking was hit by what’s believed to be the fourth rogue app in a week or so and was investigating the spread of a new variant of the Koobface worm, according to security firm Trend Micro. This was ...
Monday DEMO Coverage Round-Up (Part 1)
At my personal blog, I posted an alphabetical list of all the demonstrations scheduled for the conference (with descriptions). We’re going to repost that list bit by bit here at the blog as the demonstrations take place with our comments and pointing to our favorites. These are the demonstrators for today with links to other ...
Skittles Just Social Engineered You
Many of you went to the Skittles site this morning after seeing all the #Skittles tweets. Until just recently, as many of you already know, I was at a small startup data company. The minute I saw the form pop up at me that asked for my birthdate – I was like “Ah-Ha! Skittles is ...
Social Media Measurement – What’s the Value
A great story by Shane Atchison from Clickz where he posted a detailed post on Social Media measurement. My favorite parts: “..social media is different than transaction, and it calls for a different approach to measurement. Today we look at the quality of relationships, experiences, and, yes, transactions, and we look at them over time. ...
