Archive | January 22nd, 2011

Ecwid Ecommerce App Lets Businesses Sell on the Web, Mobile, and Facebook

Posted on 22 January 2011

Facebook Pages aren’t just for communicating.

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Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job Board: NaturalMotion, Meteor Games, & More

Posted on 22 January 2011

The  Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the  Inside Network Job Board , including positions at  NaturalMotion ,  Meteor Games ,  King of the Web ,  Speeddate , and  MdotM . Digital Marketing Analyst (Oxford, UK) Game Designer (Beverly Hills, CA) Ruby on Rails Software Developer (Seattle, WA) Lead Product Manager/ Director of Product (Millbrea, CA) Account Manager / Account Executive (Burlingame, CA) Listings on the  Inside Network Job Board are distributed to readers of Inside Facebook and Inside Social Games through regular posts and widgets on the sites

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Gillmor Gang 1.22.11 (TCTV)

Posted on 22 January 2011

The abrupt retirement/resignation/deck chair shifting of Google CEO Eric Schmidt couldn’t have been timed better — if you were Facebook.

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TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Qwiki Hits No. 1 On Google Trends ‘Hot Searches’ In The U.S.

Posted on 22 January 2011

Buoyed by news that early Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin led an $8 million investment in the startup, TechCrunch Disrupt winner and visual search startup Qwiki has hit no.1 on Google Trends ‘Hot Searches’ in the U.S. That’s a pretty impressive feat for a startup that was virtually unknown six months ago

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Weekend Giveaway: Win A Bulletproof IoSafe Hard Drive

Posted on 22 January 2011

This is truly some bulletproof storage, amirite? Today we’re giving away the ioSafe Rugged Portable hard drive, a warranted drive that can withstand a shotgun blast, salt fog, and all kinds of other crazy stuff

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Arrington Ambush Interviews Crunchies VC Of The Year Yuri Milner

Posted on 22 January 2011

Last night at the Crunchies , Yuri Milner of Digital Sky Technologies won the VC of the Year award (Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures was a close runner-up). Milner has almost single-handedly created a new class of mezzanine venture capital, allowing companies like Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga to postpone IPOs while still getting a ton of liquidity and huge valuations. Before he could leave the stage after accepting his award last night, Michael tried to ambush interview him.

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Stock Photo Marketplace ClusterShot Hits The Deadpool (Unless …)

Posted on 22 January 2011

Back in April 2009, I wrote about a site called ClusterShot , which aimed to rival Getty Images-owned stock photography juggernaut iStockphoto . Almost two years later, the company’s calling it quits – unless a reasonable buyer steps forward with a reasonable offer.

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Sony’s Cloud-Based Qriocity Music Service Debuts In France, Germany, Italy And Spain

Posted on 22 January 2011

Sony has just announced that Qriocity , the strangely named cloud-based digital music service it aims to rival Apple’s iTunes with, is now immediately available in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The service, which is apparently called “Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity” in full, made its debut in the UK and Ireland in December 2010, and provides users with access to a catalogue of millions of songs from labels like – surprise – Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and EMI Music as well as several independent labels and publishers.

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Boom – Apple’s App Store Hits 10 Billion Downloads

Posted on 22 January 2011

Here we are. Apple has just announced on this promotion page that there have been 10 billion downloads from its App Store since its inception. It’s a huge milestone in the life of the App Store, which lets people downloads games and software programs for their iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads ( lots of those out there)

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Facebook Just Landed $1.5B; Open Source Alternative Struggles To Raise $10,000

Posted on 22 January 2011

Facebook just raised $1.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation, having secured just south of $2.4 billion since the company was founded. Contrast that with The Appleseed Project , which aims to establish an open source, fully distributed and decentralized social networking software suite to rival Facebook

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