Mobspot, a showcased startup that demoed at the TECH cocktail SXSW: Blackout Sunday event in Austin and a SXSW Accelerator finalist, has released the Mobspot Facebook Application so that Facebook users with iPhones can now see which apps their friends actually use and like. As written about previously, Mobspot wants to solve the problem of mobile app…
Read MoreIf social networking hasn’t taken over enough of your life and time already, soon you will be able to grab your popcorn and head to the theater to see the film, The Social Network, as it will be hitting a theater near you on October 1, 2010. The Social Network is about Mark Zuckerberg, the…
Read MoreLast week we reported that high profile Facebook users like Jason Calacanis were deleting their Facebook pages in reaction to privacy concerns. Responding to criticism is something all entrepreneurs have to learn to deal with so I wondered how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg would respond to his users that had expressed privacy concerns. Today, in a…
Read MoreThe always outspoken Jason Calacanis sent out an email late last night to his list serve JasonNation stating his plans to delete his Facebook page this Friday at 1:00pm PT. What’s more, he’s planning to broadcast it live on the Web. Calacanis says: “Simply put, I no longer trust Facebook or Mark Zuckerberg with my…
Read MoreEdison Research and Arbitron released study today titled Twitter Usage in America 2010, that shares some interesting data about usage of social networking site like Facebook and Twitter. The study presents three years of tracking data from a nationally representative telephone survey (via landline and mobile phone) of 1,753 Americans, and was conducted in February…
Read MoreOn Wednesday the Facebook’s Developers Conference f8 took place and was streamed live via livesteam. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced several new features including: one step permissions, saved caches, Facebook currency (Credits), and the social graph (Open Graph protocol). A breakdown of the Open Graph and Facebook connect by Bret Taylor, CEO and Programmer of FriendFeed,…
Read MoreLooking for a way to connect with you grandparents on Facebook? Thanks to PostEgram, a Detroit-based startup, it may now be easier than ever to keep your grandparents and other loved ones up to speed on your Facebook activity the old fashion way. PostEgram automatically prints and mails your Facebook status and photos, helping users…
Read MoreBodega, an Ann Arbor, Michigan based startup, offers a virtual goods marketplace enabling anyone to buy and sell their virtual goods in a fun environment. If virtual goods are new to you, they are defined by Wikipedia as: Virtual goods are non-physical objects that are purchased for use in online communities or online games. Virtual…
Read MoreIf you want to stay connected to your friends, news sources, and traffic updates without taking your eyes off the road to text, Aha Mobile, has the solution: The Palo Alto, CA-based company has developed a back-end platform that safely connects drivers to one another and to the Web with personalized, interactive radio stations. The…
Read MoreLivingSocial, the social commerce leader behind LivingSocial Deals and top Facebook applications Visual Bookshelf and Pick Your Five, today announced that it has completed a $25 million Series B round of venture funding led by U.S. Venture Partners. Grotech Ventures and Steve Case’s Revolution LLC are also participating. With this round of funding, LivingSocial Deals is…
Read MoreThis probably seems fairly obvious to most people, but what you say online can stick around for quite sometime and help to either further or hinder your career. Everyday, we are all building an online reputation that affects our offline lives. While there have been many stories about people using their online reputations to help…
Read MoreI don’t know about you all, but I hate the chat interface in Facebook. Too many tabs if you have a couple of chats going, that odd noise that it makes when you receive a new chat (like someone smacking their tongue), just an odd experience all around. On the other hand, I love chatting in iChat,…
Read MoreWow, Facebook is growing up right before our eyes as it 6 years old yesterday. As part of the birthday celebration Facebook also rolled out a new design to about 80 million of its over 400 million users. Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg had this to say in a blog post: So to celebrate…
Read MoreWith Facebook email notifications turned on for my Facebook account, today when I got notified of a comment on a post on Facebook there was an additional line that said: “New Feature: Reply to this email to comment on this post.” Check out this blog post by Facebook which further explains the new feature. This…
Read MoreThanks to our friends at Washington, D.C. based iStrategyLabs the 2nd Facebook Developers Garage DC is being streamed live. The event includes David Recordon of Facebook, Yul Kwon of the FCC, Aaron Batalion of LivingSocial, Hart Rossman of SAIC, and more. If you are at the event in DC, be sure to wave. Watch it now and feel…
Read MoreNow you can make free calls to your friends from your Facebook profile thanks to IfbyPhone, a Chicago-based telephone application platform company that has created Phone-Me-Now. Phone-Me-Now gives Facebook friends free “click to call” functionality without disclosing their caller ID. I am not really sure if that is a good thing or not but I…
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