Articles tagged with: social networking
Viadeo, the other social network for business professionals, announced this morning it has landed $32 million in funding from a host of blue-chip investors as it looks to expand beyond its stronghold markets of France and China. It currently has 45 million users and is looking to grow share in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and beyond.
Social networking has been accused of many things, but degrading humanity? It seems that Skype has some strong feelings on the matter.
A few years back, Burger King made waves when it introduced a new app called “Whopper Sacrifice,” an edgy way to boost its cred with social networkers. Here’s how it worked: you were rewarded with a free Whopper sandwich for every 10 people in your network you un-friended. Facebook shut down the app after just a few days rather than see it lose members to the viral free-burger-giveaway.
…to impress the boss, a client or room-full of curious suits. Then you might want to look at this social media presentation from Stefano Principato posted to Slideshare earlier this week. It has a little …
A new study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau in shows that Europeans from Portugal to Poland have been steadily embracing social media. Of all internet users surveyed in 16 countries, 52% had updated or viewed …
If you’re interested in unauthorised behind-the-scenes info, check it out – Michael Arrington has got hold of a draft of Wall Street Journal editor Julia Angwin’s tell-all book about MySpace, which will officially hit the …
Via the Sydney Morning Herald we learn that the Encyclopedia Brittanica is inviting the hoi polloi to edit, enhance and contribute to its online version. But it may not all go according to plan; in the …
Cisco Systems, traditionally known for its networking infrastructure products, is starting to make waves in the social networking space, with its launch of Eos, a hosted software platform targeted at big media companies who want …
A new tool that’s got some ears pricked is Zentact, a contact-amplifying service co-founded by Eric Marcoullier, known for being a key player in the team that developed MyBlogLog and then sold it to Yahoo …
