Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Delicious Founder: I Wish I Had Not Sold to Yahoo
Back in 2005 (a long time in the social media world), Yahoo acquired Delicious, the popular social bookmarking website.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Yahoo Bookmarking Site Delicious “Freshens Up”
Yahoo’s bookmarking service Delicious unveiled a redesign that highlights social features such as the ability to see which links other Web users are discussing the most.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Furl Changes Hands
This week Diigo acquired fellow social-bookmarking service Furl from LookSmart, a San Francisco online advertising company. Terms weren’t disclosed, but LookSmart said in a statement it would receive “a potential equity position” in Diigo in exchange for Furl.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Happy Birthday, Yahoo Buzz. Who Are You Again?
Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Reddit, Delicious. These are all social sites that are well known for sharing stories with a massive amount of people. Yahoo Buzz? Not so much. But apparently, it’s also in the business of sharing stories. And today is its first birthday.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Influentials on the Web Are People With the Power to Link
In the networked Web era, influentials may not be people with a particularly connected temperament or Rolodex, or people who control and influence monopoly distribution channels (e.g., newspapers), but rather people who influence the network by leveraging the most powerful force on the web–the link. People like bloggers, top Diggers, power users, Facebook users who share lots of links, MySpace users who embed videos, Twitter users who post lots of URLs, or any social-network user with links to lots of friends.
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