Category: social networks
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Microsoft buys 1.6% of FaceBook for $240m
The New York Times is reporting this morning that Microsoft has bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240m, this values the company at $15bn. This values Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 23 year old founder at $3bn and Accel Partners, the venture capital firm that invested $12.7 million in May 2005 now owns 11 percent of…
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Congrats to the guys in Jaiku
I see Jaiku were bought by Google yesterday. What is Jaiku? Jaiku is what Twitter would be if it worked reliably and had neat functionality. I’m delighted for them. If you don’t currently have a Jaiku account then you may be out of luck because in the notification email sent out by Jaiku last night…
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Are Microsoft trying to sucker the competition?
The Wall Street Journal has a piece today claiming that Microsoft are thinking of investing in FaceBook. TechMeme is buzzing with the news. According to the WSJ article Microsoft could purchase a stake of up to 5% in the closely held startup, at a cost in the range of $300 million to $500 million This…
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Should employers be blocking access to Facebook?
I was speaking to journalist Dermot Corrigan the other morning about Facebook. He was writing an article for yesterday’s Sunday Business Post on how companies have started blocking access to Facebook for their employees. This is presumably on the back of articles like the one in the Telegraph recently which claimed that: More than two…
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SAP's global Social Media survey
Shel Israel has been asked by SAP to do a global survey on Social Media. Shel emailed me a personalised list of questions as part of the survey process. Following on from Hugh’s inspired example, I am also going to answer Shel’s questions through my blog. Hey Shel, thanks for considering me for this project.…
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LinkedIn to open api – are they too late?
I wrote a post last week mentioning Facebook’s open api and contrasting it to LinkedIn and today I read that LinkedIn CEO, Reid Hoffman has said that LinkedIn will be opening their api to developers in the next nine months. This is a necessary move on LinkedIn’s part as they are seeing their users desert…
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Facebook review
Facebook seems to be new cool Social Networking toy of choice. It is a cool app, it has to be said, with the ability to easily create networks and groups of like-minded individuals. More than that, it has an api which allows 3rd parties to create apps which hook into it easily. Tripadvisor have developed…
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There is a reason I rarely use Xing
Xing is the new name of what was openbc – it is a business networking site analogous to LinkedIn but with a more European focus. It should be useful for me then. I should be using it all the time. I don’t. I use it extremely rarely. Why? It has one of the most anal…