Posted on 06 June 2010
Tomorrow Yahoo will announce a relaunch of Yahoo Profiles and their “all in” integration with Facebook Connect, including on the Yahoo home page. We’ve all known deep integration with Facebook was coming , but until now it wasn’t clear exactly how deeply Yahoo would go. The answer – pretty deep.
Tags: accounts, content-as-well, contributions, experience, Facebook, flickr, its-partnership, manage-settings, News, privacy-updates, their-accounts, tomorrow-yahoo, yahoo, yahoo-profiles
Posted on 06 June 2010
I was hit with a reminder this Sunday morning that I am indeed no longer a 15-year-old teenager. But if you are a Bieber-Swift-Pattinson-Stewart-OMGVampires-loving tween/teen, then boy does MTV have a Twitter visualization map for you. In honor of this evening’s MTV Movie Awards , the digital team at MTV have rolled out a highly interactive (almost too interactive) Twitter live-graph that will tell you via text and dynamic visuals what are the top trending topics/people related to the Awards show, how many tweets per minute each topic is averaging, and the content of those tweets.
Tags: awards, digital, graph, kristen-stewart, mtv, mtv movie awards, networks, News, osy, sunday, twilight, twitter, Video
Posted on 06 June 2010
It’s no secret that Google has ambitions of becoming an Enterprise productivity suite powerhouse; perhaps one day taking over the top spot from Microsoft. As Google’s President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development Nikesh Arora told us at TechCrunch Disrupt a last week, Google hopes for Apps to be a billion dollar revenue stream in three to four years.
Tags: billion-dollar, business, crunch-disrupt, educational, enterprise, global-sales, google-apps, News, nikesh-arora, president, revenue-stream, special-portal
Posted on 06 June 2010
How much would you pay for an Android phone? $99?
Tags: charming, ferraris, model-covered, multiple-styles, need-something, News, phones, the-charming, ultrarich, ulysse-nardin, Video
Posted on 06 June 2010
I’ve long argued that great entrepreneurs are born not made. I emphasize the word “great” for a reason. A hot market can convince someone to become an entrepreneur but such fortune-seekers are rarely the ones who build lasting, billion-dollar companies.
Tags: book, country, government, japanese, kansas, madonna, money, painting, trip, united-states, university
Posted on 06 June 2010
In his most recent email blast-turned- blog post , Jason Calacanis has chosen a familiar subject: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg .
Tags: apple, data, Facebook, itunes, picture, social, steve-jobs, user
Posted on 06 June 2010
Editor’s note: Book rental startup Chegg is making money hand over fist. Guest author Steven Carpenter does a teardown of its business model and estimates its revenues will reach $130 million this year.
Tags: amazon, analysis, apple, chegg, college, college-tuition, financial, florida, netflix, online, school, space, time, unique, winter