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.
Back in 2005 (a long time in the social media world), Yahoo acquired Delicious, the popular social bookmarking website.
If you’re under 25 and use Twitter, you’re not the source of the site’s tremendous growth.
Just six years ago, the web was dominated by one browser: Internet Explorer, specifically Internet Explorer 6.
As more diverse organizations dive into web marketing, for-profit organizations can learn well from their indie counterparts about experimentation and innovation online.
Internet pranksters, gathered around the popular anonymous Internet forum 4chan, have seemingly orchestrated an attack on Twitter, creating a number of fake accounts and pushing the hashtag #gorillapenis to the trending topics.
Imagine the odds: No sooner did Facebook swing open the doors to its fire sale of vanity URLs than a geeky frat party ensued, as members reserved prankish, clever and lewd names instead of maybe the digital alias their friends (and mothers) might have hoped for.
Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales’s project that was supposed to put the social into search, is getting closed down today, CNET reports.
De-friending has always been awkward. Social networks offer one click “remove a friend” options, but it still doesn’t make the decision any easier.
You can always tell when the weekend is approaching. If it isn’t Twitter getting killed, it’s podcasting dying, death of blogs, slaughter of the record labels or one or more form of Heritage media. It’s honestly quite difficult to top it every week.
During the Microhoo debacle, everyone was wondering who was going to buy Yahoo. While all eyes were on that, Yahoo has been quietly going about its business.
The topic of blogs and their authors and owners and what exactly defines their place on the ladder of the journalism industry never quite fully goes away. That’s because there’s always something or other that drives the commentariat to reflect on the present, compare it to the past, and try to forecast the future.
VideoEgg has announced that its ad network for Facebook applications–eggnetwork–has pulled in around $1.5 million in ad revenue over the past five months. While the company is touting the news as a “million-dollar payday” for developers, it actually seems like a fairly paltry figure when you consider the companies on eggnetwork’s client list.
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