Archive for May, 2008
FriendFeed Sewing Up Search Better than Google?
I just want to apologize in advance for putting out yet another article revolving around FriendFeed. I say this because not only have I heard from a large number of non-FriendFeed converts that they’re tired of hearing about FriendFeed, but I’m almost sick of hearing myself talk about it. This doesn’t necesarily diminish my own [...]
Miley’s MySpace: A Wake-Up Call for Parents?
Miley Cyrus, also known as 15-year-old the teen sensation Hannah Montana, is once again in the news for some allegedly racy photographs. It took all of about 10 minutes to track down the entire set (shown to left - click to enlarge). They’ve been touted around the blogosphere though as they were the most scandalous [...]
5 FriendFeed Rooms To Get The Party Started
We recently wrote up the news about FriendFeed adding the ability to create rooms, and how it will allow you to discuss news items related to your topic. Well, we’ve started getting some emails about rooms that have opened up, and we thought we’d share them with you so you can start seeing for [...]
InterPlay: SGN In Bed With Mashable [Video]
Proving once again that Mashable is in bed with C-level execs, our second interview from Thursday’s distinguished InterPlay social gaming conference features Shervin Pishevar, CEO and co-founder of the Social Gaming Network.
SGN is the force behind the popular social games Warbook, Text Twirl, Free Gifts, Jetman and more, with distribution across Facebook, hi5, [...]
Facebook Tries to Take the FriendFeed Concept Mainstream
Facebook is quickly moving into the aggregation game, today adding a half dozen different services you can now import into your Mini-Feed. The new services include YouTube, StumbleUpon, Hulu, Pandora, Last.fm, and Google Reader.
To try it out, I added my Google Reader Shared Items. Much like FriendFeed, it displays some recent [...]
InterPlay: Vanessa In Bed With Mashable [Video]
Thursday’s InterPlay conference at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco saw notables from RockYou, Meebo, Kongregate, Zynga, Electronic Arts, Mochi Media, MySpace, Bunchball and more come together to discuss the intersection of gaming and the social web.
Panel topics included “Methods for Distribution and Development” and “Show me the Money: Monetizing and Advertising”. The [...]
Microsoft Dumps Book Search: Giving Way to Google?
When the world first began to realize the potential of the Internet for storing indexing and sharing information, there were several initiatives on leveraging the web for indexing things like scientific journals, and books. While the traditional publishing industry has been a bit slower to adopt this potential whole-heartedly, there have been several initiatives [...]
Facebook Profile Redesign: Sandbox Now Open to Developers
Changing the design of a user profile isn’t usually a terrible big deal, but when it comes to Facebook, there’s a lot more at stake than just the rearrangement of a user photo and their basic information. Developers have begun to make a living on the ability for Facebook users to share more content [...]
BeerSuggest Recommends Beer [The Startup Review]
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STARTUP DETAILS:
Company Name: BeerSuggest
20 word description: Beer Suggest is a niche wiki/social community for beer lovers.
CEO’s 100 word description: Beer Suggest is a niche wiki/social community for beer [...]
15+ Tools For The Best Golf Season Ever
Summer is almost upon us, are you ready for some golfing? Why not use some of these tools to check out courses, find some people to go golfing with, share your scores - all those things a true golfing fanatic craves.
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