Social Networking Watch
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LinkedIn Opens Up API
TECH CRUNCH - Nov 23 - LinkedIn recently launched two-way integration with Twitter and also rolled out a plug-in to pull in your LinkedIn contacts within Microsoft Outlook. And today, LinkedIn is opening up its API to start letting developers make applications that tap into LinkedIn’s social …
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Twitter Valued At $1 Billion
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - Nov 21 - Twitter, valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $4M a year and plans to build on that revenue with advertising. Twitter plans to start the ad business in early 2010. The current revenue comes from companies paying …
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Twitter valued At $1 Billion
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - Nov 21 - Twitter, valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $4M a year and plans to build on that revenue with advertising. Twitter plans to start the ad business in early 2010. The current revenue comes from companies paying …
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Cell Phones Drive Social Networks In Asia
PC WORLD - Nov 21 - More than 50% of respondents in China, India, South Korea and Thailand access social networks via mobile phones, according to a recent IDC survey report. In China and Thailand, 62% and 65% of the respective respondents use mobile phones to get news alerts and notification …
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LinkedIn May Be Different From MySpace, But Not Its Ad Strategy
AD AGE - Nov 18 - While LinkedIn is trying to differentiate its audience from other social networks, its ad strategy looks awfully familiar. Today, the site announced it's launching Custom Groups in the hopes advertisers will create more robust presences on the site. The move is similar to t …
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The Top Viral Video Ad Campaign, Updated Nov 16, 2009
Brand: VolkswagenCampaign: The Fun TheoryAgency: DDBSource: VisibleMeasures.com
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Twitter Launches In French
MASHABLE - Nov 19 - Twitter’s translation project is rolling along rather quickly now. Earlier in the month Twitter launched in Spanish, and as of today, Twitter is now available in French. FULL ARTICLE @ MASHABLESee all posts on Twitter
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eBay Completes Skype Sale
TECH CRUNCH - Nov 19 - eBay has completed the sale of Skype, valuing the company at $2.75 billion. The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control ~70% stake is a group led by Silver Lake Partners and includes Joltid (i.e. the company founded by Skype’s original founders) an …
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Facebook Becomes Third Most Popular Video Site
CNET NEWS - Nov 19 - Accordning to Nielsen's VideoCensus release Facebook is now the world's third most popular place to view video online. YouTube serviced over 6.6 billion streams. In a distant second, Hulu offered up over 632M video streams. But it was Facebook with over 217M streams in O …
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MySpace Signs Agreement To Acquire iMeem
TECH CRUNCH - Nov 18 - MySpace will acquire most of the assets of iMeem for ~$1M in cash. $1M isn’t the “real” purchase price for the company. Some assets are being left behind, including millions of dollars in accounts receivable plus some other cash. All or most of these assets, plus the p …
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Burda Buys 25% Stake In XING
TECH CRUNCH - Nov 18 - German media giant Burda has purchased a 25.1% share in XING, the business social network that is biggest in Germany and competes with LinkedIn. The 1,323,041 shares were sold to Burda by Cinco Capital, the investment vehicle owned by the former XING co-founder Lars Hi …
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PalTalk Buys Vumber
PAID CONTENT - Nov 18 - Video-based chat service Paltalk has acquired Vumber, a service that provides “disposable” phone numbers. Terms weren’t disclosed. New York-based PalTalk began working with Vumber last February. Vumber’s service promises privacy and an additional layer of call-screeni …
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Viximo Powers Virtual Goods For Lady Gaga
PRWEB - Nov 17 - Viximo, the provider of virtual goods solutions, will be powering virtual goods for Lady Gaga and other Interscope artists. Virtual goods based on Lady Gaga, like her disco stick and bubble dress, will be made available to Viximo’s network of social networking, online dating …
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RockYou Raises $50 Million
TECH CRUNCH - Nov 16 - Social network app developer and advertising platform RockYou has raised $50M in a Series D round of financing from existing investor Softbank. RockYou, which launched in Nov 2005, has now raised $119M in capital and has revenues rumored in the $30M to $40M/year range. …
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MySpace Close To Acquiring iMeem
TECH CRUNCH - Nov 16 - MySpace is in late stage negotiations to acquire music streaming service iMeem. We don’t know the price of the acquisition, but this isn’t going to be a big win for investors. iMeem has raised $25M plus at least another $10M in debt. But the difficultly in making a fre …
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Seth Sternberg, CEO And Co-Founder Of Meebo
SNW INTERVIEW - Nov 16 - On its website, Meebo states that it allows users to “gather their friends on a single buddy list where they can communicate in real-time across different IM platforms, communities, and traditional social networks.” Seth Sternberg helped launch Meebo in Septemb …
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Book Review: Social Media Marketing For Dummies
SNW - Nov 16 -You know social media has hit the big time when your local newscasts are asking you to connect with them using Twitter and Facebook. However, there are still a lot of businesses who haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet. Most of the reasoning has to do with not understanding social med …
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The Top Viral Video Ad Campaign, Updated Nov 9, 2009
Brand: International Olympic CommitteeCampaign: Best of US ChallengeAgency: Cole & Weber United / MekanismSource: VisibleMeasures.com
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Nielsen Social Networking Rankings From October
SNW - Nov 13 - MySpace jumped past Twitter to grab the #3 spot in Nielsen’s unique audience rankings for the U.K. During October, MySpace scored a unique audience ranking of 3,495. Facebook and Blogger in October were able to hold onto first and second place with unique audience rankings of 23,095 a …
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Chinese Social Networks Growing Strong
ASIAONE – Nov 13 – Kaixin001.com and Renren.com, two of China's 1000+ social networks, are expected to attract 124 million users by the end of the year; matching the current social network user base in the country. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, 42.4% of user log …
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