Kwiqq has just released the financial benefits one of its social networks for 2wentys, First Choice’s youth brand.
The 2wentysworld community was built with the aim of increasing internet channel share as they are significantly more profitable for First Choice. Participation by users has transformed into increased internet channel share by strongly [...]
There are new features on MySpace that make it easier for users to find and stay in touch with friends on site. Now when users login they see a facebook like preview page or effective My Home page. For some users it can be really confusing so in Tom Anderson’s (MySpace) words “I know some [...]
After Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, turned down a $200 million buyout offer. There are now speculations that investors weren’t ready to cash in their chips yet, and made CEO Toni Schneider and founder Matt Mullenweg a counter offer they couldn’t refuse: take a [...]
Several websites use advertising as one of the prime revenue source. Recently I came across FreeRice, a good example of social enterprise online. FreeRice is a website where you click on the answer that best defines the word. For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World [...]
Social network for neighbors Fatdoor has raised $5.5M in its first round of institutional funding. The company has also brought aboard ex-Yahoo Jennifer Dulski as its CEO.
The investment group was led by Norwest Venture Partners with the participation of KeyNote Ventures. Dulski comes to Fatdoor after nine years at Yahoo where she served variously as [...]
There appears to be support for Greasemonkey built into the new GMail interface, which has been rolling out over the last few days. Google has made it official, GMail supports Greasemonkey and there’s even a new documentation page for Greasemonkey developers looking to extend GMail.
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the [...]
It was great to speak at the Yes Network event earlier
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The entire presentation and the speech can be found here. My talk is embedded in the presentation. You can fire it up by moving the mouse to the bottom right hand corner of the presentation. This would bring up a symbol: Ø. Just [...]
Primark, has ruled out an official Facebook presence amid concerns it would be unable to match the success of an existing unofficial group dedicated to the chain. The budget fashion retailer says it has no plans to partner with the social networking site, despite the fact that more than 94,000 users have joined The Primark [...]
Edgar, formerly Europe, Middle East and Africa editor for Reuters Video, will be responsible for developing the website’s video section, which currently publishes more than 100 videos a month. Edgar joined FT.com earlier this year from Reuters, where he worked as Europe, Middle East and Africa editor and as Frankfurt correspondent. He also spent two [...]
The New York Times estimates that there are 1,000 Google employees whose stock grants and options are worth more than $5 million. So there are more than 1,000 Google millionaires, including Google’s former masseuse, Bonnie Brown. And anyone who joined a year ago is worth, on average, $276,000. According to the story, the average options [...]