Archive | May 8th, 2010

Zynga’s Struggle For Independence: Bailing On Tagged, ZLive To Launch Soon?

Posted on 08 May 2010

Yesterday we reported on Zynga’s plans to launch a social gaming network called Zynga Live as part of its efforts to distance itself from Facebook.

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An Early Look At Twitter Annotations Or, “Twannotations”

Posted on 08 May 2010

During a presentation in London today, Twitter engineer Raffi Krikorian offered up an early glimpse of what Twitter’s highly anticipated new annotations feature (or, as he refers to them at one point “Twannotations”) will look like. “ Threw together a quick, and extremely preliminary view on what @twitterapi has been working on — and what I feel has the ability of being a game-changer on the platform — Annotations ,” he writes on his Posterous blog . Krikorian also posted his deck, which I’ll embed below

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Why Media Companies Should Become More Like Merchants

Posted on 08 May 2010

Editor’s note: Should media sites become group buying sites as well? Guest author Dave Chase thinks so

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Facebook Roundup: Privacy Visualization, Topix, Unlikes, Parature and Oil

Posted on 08 May 2010

Visualizing Facebook’s Move Towards Openness — Whatever you think about Facebook’s relentless efforts to make its service more open and central to the web — and sneakily destroy user privacy, as some see it — you should be sure to check out this infographic of the company’s changes. Created by user interface developer Matt McKeon , it shows concentric circles of privacy, from your friends to the entire internet, segmented by feature type. Each feature has become more open over time, and the graphic represents this by filling in the circular outline in dark blue.

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Welcome To The Cloud, Microsoft

Posted on 08 May 2010

This guest post was written by Aaron Levie , CEO and co-founder of Box.net . Box.net was founded in 2005 with the goal of helping people and businesses easily access and share information from anywhere.

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Brewing TV: When Homebrewers Attack the Web

Posted on 08 May 2010

If you’ve ever made your own booze you probably know about Northern Brewer , one of the best online brew supply stores. Well, those folks just started Brewing TV which consists of a dude in a hat talking with another dude in a hat about brewing as well as a video of some other dudes in hats.

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Is an MBA a Plus or a Minus in the Startup World?

Posted on 08 May 2010

A long time ago, I had to make a really tough choice: invest in an MBA from New York University, or make do with my bachelors. I was newly married, had a child on the way, and didn’t have much in savings.

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ReadWriteWeb’s Mobile Summit And The Long Shadow Of Apple

Posted on 08 May 2010

Amid rows of baked goods and gallons of orange juice and coffee, developers and entrepreneurs gathered today at the Computer History Museum for ReadWriteWeb’s mobile summit. The meeting, organized as an “unconference,” created an adhoc setting for a candid discussion of mobile trends, including augmented reality, mobile video, location based services, the internet of things (sensor, RFID data), and native versus browser based apps.

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Thanks to Our Sponsors

Posted on 08 May 2010

Inside Facebook extends a big thank you to our sponsors for supporting the continued growth of Inside Facebook.

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