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WhoGlue Changes Facebook Status From “I’m Suing” to “I’ve Been Acquired”
Nov 29th
In September 2009, Baltimore-based software company WhoGlue Inc. filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Facebook. It claimed that Facebook “violated a patent awarded to WhoGlue in 2007 for an information management system to control personal information as human networks and technology increasingly mesh.” The lawsuit was settled, and in early November 2011, Hardebeck sold his tiny two-person company, which consists of him and a developer in Berlin, to Facebook for an undisclosed amount.
Facebook may have acquired WhoGlue, but according to a repot from The Baltimore Sun, Hardebeck bought back “some assets, trademarks and customer relationships from Facebook.” He has since renamed his company WhoGlue LLC.
This year’s Facebook acquisitions are just the beginning of what’s in store for the social media behemoth.
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Last December, Facebook said that it would acquire 15 companies total in 2011, effectively doubling the speed of its acquisition pace. Thus far, Facebook has acquired all small companies, including WhoGlue, Friend.ly, Push Pop Press, Sofa, Daytum, Snaptu, Beluga and Rel8tion.
As Facebook makes its moves toward going public, ReadWriteWeb reporter Marshall Kirkpatrick says that the IPO could “mean more and bigger startup acquisitions, more support for more startups and an infusion of smart money and experience into radically new tech experiments.”
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Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Online – Viral Status Guaranteed – ReelSEO Online Video News
Nov 2nd
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Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Online – Viral Status Guaranteed
ReelSEO Online Video News He is also founder of The Viral Orchard (http://www.viralorchard.com), an Internet marketing firm offering content writing and development services, viral marketing consulting, and SEO services. Jeremy writes constantly, loves online video, … |
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LinkedIn Lets Companies Share Their Own Status Updates
Oct 6th
LinkedIn has launched status updates from companies. Administrators of company pages can post short updates just like individual users can. This provides companies with a way to engage followers and start conversations from within the public LinkedIn stream.
Users of LinkedIn could follow company profiles since 2010. Previously, users following a company would see personnel changes, new job openings and company profile updates. Now companies can also share 500-character messages, links and media with followers as well.
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LinkedIn has made an effort to enhance its social features this year, opening its Groups API to developers and adding Groups to its new native mobile apps. The professional social network also set a good precedent for sharing in its first-ever public earnings call, making the slide deck embeddable for anyone and live-tweeting the call.
LinkedIn is moving toward becoming the human resources hub for companies on the Web, not just a place for two-way networking. In July, LinkedIn enabled employers to let job applicants apply with LinkedIn from a company’s own website. Today’s update adds another way for companies and professionals to interact using LinkedIn.
[8/23/2011 10:11:32 AM] Abraham Hyatt: Check out the slides from LinkedIn’s Q2 2011 earnings call:
LinkedIn’s First Earnings Announcement Deck, Q2 2011
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Twitter & Bing Renew Deal, Tweet Their BFF Status Together
Sep 7th
Microsoft and Twitter are rekindling their relationship and telling the world about it on Twitter. Bing has chosen to renew their deal with Twitter, and the two companies announced the news via flirted messages back and forth in a casual conv…
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The Arab Spring: A Status Report on Morocco and Yemen
Jul 20th
This is the second in a three-part series. The first covered Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain. The final post will cover the effect of these uprisings outside the Arab world.
As it has with other countries in the Arab world, technology continues to play a role in communications between protesters in Morocco, Yemen and Syria, as well as between those protesters and the global public. It has also served as the fulcrum for the offending regimes’ attempts at hanging onto power: posting propaganda, misleading statements attributed to protestors, shutting off access to the Internet and more.
I asked people I know in the countries of the Arab Spring to tell us how they think things currently stand and what role technology continues to play there. Today we take a look at Morocco, Yemen and Syria.
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Morocco
Lbadikho is a blogger and author at Talk Morocco and one of the co-founders of Mamfakinch. In a recent article on Talk Morocco, he “tried to evaluate the role of technology as a catalyst to the (protests).”
“In the eve of the protests, more precisely in February 19th, a large call for canceling the Feb20 protests was spread through official state television and some independent Radios. Many people started believing this fake canceling, as the state media used one ex figures of the Feb20 to give credit to this call.
“Activists started to deny this state-organized rumor using social networks and blogs. At mamfakinch for example, this communiqué discredits the major Press Agency in Morocco with Snapshoots proving that the Agency is aiming by its rumors to spread information that would let people really think the protests are cancelled and not to take to the streets the day after.
“From this point of view, Feb20 was a good gauge for New Medias’ impact in Morocco : the Mamfakinch’s denial was read more than 15000 times [1] few hours after being posted, and similar denial were spread through social media, mainly facebook to let people know that there were no cancelling of the demonstrations as MSM claimed. On sunday, the number of participants was so important that orders were given to state televisions to cover the demonstrations.”
In other words, in Morocco, social media has proven a largely successful bullshit detector.
“I add to the articles,” Lbadikho told ReadWriteWeb, “the difference between Morocco and Tunisia is that in our case, the absence of Tunisian-like censorship made that we don’t have the same number of Internet-savvy activists. For example, you’ll not find a group like Takriz in Morocco, unfortunately.”
Yemen
Walid Al-Saqaf is a Yemeni activist and media researcher based in Sweden. He is the editor of the news aggregation site Yemen Portal.
“Although there has been a rapid growth in the use of the Internet in recent years, excessive power outages, diesel shortage and price hikes have caused a decline in Internet access due to high costs of operating Internet cafes. Yemen is among the poorest countries in the world and most Internet users don’t own their own computers. Yet almost all Yemenis have mobile connectivity though the government limited Internet services and international calls for users of SabaFon, the GSM company mainly owned by Hameed Al-Ahmar, a leading opposition figure calling for the end of Saleh’s regime.
“Yet when we consider the high percentage of illiteracy, lack of adequate infrastructure for telecommunication and electricity in vast areas of the country, we can say that Yemenis were able to overcome many obstacles and leverage technology in their favor. For example, there are dozens of Facebook groups supporting the revolution. Many are aggregated by my search engine Yemen Portal and are utilizing the global social network to propagate their messages and share videos of demonstrations, attacks, and other important and relevant events and activities.”
Unfortunately, I could not get an in-country source on Syria by the time of posting. I hope to feature an update on that country later.
Read the first post in this series, covering Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain. The final post will cover the effect of these uprisings outside the Arab world.
Yemen photos by Sallam, Morocco photo by Magharebia
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Google+/Gmail Integration: Current Status & Giving Feedback
Jul 13th
Google+ is already starting to seep into other Google services. Googler Mark Striebeck indicated that there are several Gmail-Google+ integrations in the works, and he wants your feedback on what else to build.
The State of Gmail-Google+ Integra…
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An SEO’s Guide to HTTP Status Codes (An Infographic) – SEOmoz (blog)
May 31st
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An SEO's Guide to HTTP Status Codes (An Infographic)
SEOmoz (blog) I took the most useful HTTP status codes, from an SEO perspective, and illustrated how they work. It's half cheat-sheet, half-infographic, and mostly just an excuse for me to have some fun. Hopefully, somebody learns something. … |
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The Status Of Search Engine Optimization: April 2011 Edition – Search Newz
Apr 28th
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The Status Of Search Engine Optimization: April 2011 Edition
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In the Name of Engagement: Facebook Auto-Suggests Friends in Status Updates & Comments
May 5th
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Facebook is always looking for small ways to increase user engagement. After all, us Facebook users are unbelievably fickle creatures. For example, out of users that enter more than three characters into the status update box, 17% decide not to post anything at all. Only 54% who attempt to upload a photo successfully do so in one fell swoop.
So, anything Facebook can do to keep us engaged and interacting, it will. Today, it made a tiny little change that could do just that – it began auto-suggesting your friends for inclusion in comments and status messages when it detected a name.
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Before now, Facebook let users tag their friends in updates and comments by simply including the "@" symbol before they started typing the name. But that was unintuitive for many. Last summer, the company began testing auto-suggest for tagging friends, but the feature later disappeared. It began predicting names after three letters and was likely more annoying than useful. The difference now, it would seem, is that you need to type your friend’s full first name, properly capitalized, before the list drops down. For example, "John" shows all my friends named John, but "john" doesn’t.
What does auto-suggesting friends’ names for tagging do? It increases the chance that those friends will interact and use the site more. A lonely user is an infrequent user.
This isn’t the first tiny but potentially important change Facebook has made in recent times. If you’ve noticed, just over the last week, if you leave a comment but then change your mind and click on the "x" to delete it, it doesn’t just delete it. Instead, it opens up the comment and allows you to edit it. All of this in the name of user engagement.
If you’re into this sort of thing, Facebook product designer Adam Mosseri spoke recently about the many challenges Facebook faces with its often fearful and anxious user base.
The little things – I tell ya, they matter.
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