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Can Sears Help OpenID Go Mainstream?
It’s one thing when Internet companies like Facebook adopt OpenID, it’s another when a giant retailer like Sears Holdings Corporation embraces it. Sears has just announced that it will enable over 1 million monthly MySears and MyKmart visitors to use…
Raptr Spreads Its Wings With Gaming Partnerships
Raptr, the social network for people who like to play and discover games, is partnering with several big-name gaming companies to license and distribute games and spread its reach. The Raptr Partners Program includes Sony Online Entertainment, NHN USA, Gala-Net…
Twitmatic Lets You Channel Surf Videos From Twitter
Just because it is shared on Twitter doesn’t make it good. Nevertheless, ffwd, the video-surfing recommendation site that borrows from StumbleVideo, has launched Twitmatic, a video site that plays only videos being shared on Twitter. (The name TwitterTV was already…
Aardvark Social Search Service Arrives
Aardvark, the secretive, invite-only social search service founded by ex-Googlers that we first mentioned late last year, is preparing to become a little less secretive (the company has changed its name from Mechanical Zoo to Aardvark). They’ll start giving users…
Yahoo’s Fire Eagle Soars Onto Facebook, Firefox
This morning Yahoo has released a pair of new applications that tap into Fire Eagle, Yahoo’s ambitious geo-location system that allows a wide variety of web services to share your location data (after being granted permission to do so). The…
MySpace’s Experimental New ‘Events’ Product Finally Taps Into The Social Graph
MySpace’s Events page hasn’t really seen a major upgrade for years - the site looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2005, and now lags behind Evite and the current leader Facebook by a wide margin. Today, it looks like…
The Amount And Value Of Twitter Traffic
Much is being written today about the value of a large following on Twitter. Jason Calacanis wants to pay $125,000 a year to have Twitter recommend him to other users, for example. He thinks that over time accounts with massive…
How Much Is A Suggested Slot On Twitter Worth? Jason Calacanis Offers $250,000.
When newbies sign up to Twitter now, they are presented with a list of 100 suggested users to start following. Simply being on that list can boost your followers well above 100,000. Several people and organizations on the list (such…
Facebook fbFund Winner Wildfire Launches Promotion App (Beta Invites)
Facebook fbFund winner Wildfire is launching the private beta of its web application, The Wildfire Promotion Builder, which allows companies to create their own branded interactive promotions, including contests, coupons, sweepstakes and giveaways. Using Facebook Connect combined with the power…
Lifeblob’s Redesign Takes Social Timelines To The Next Level (Invites)
Social timelines are going mainstream (see AOL/Bebo), but startups are pushing them to the next level. Today, Lifeblob, the Indian startup working on ways for you to visualize your life on the net, is introducing a refreshed version of its…
BackType Gets More Conversation Tracking Features, Seed Funding
BackType, one of the better conversation tracking tools we’ve come across so far, is releasing a couple of new features today that arguably make it a top gun in the space. The startup, launched in August 2008 on $15k thanks…
Ustream Launches Mobile Video Broadcasting Apps
Live video startup Ustream is making a big push into mobile. Today it is launching a mobile business division, as well as a new set of mobile video broadcasting apps (which can be found here, after login). Right now, the…
It’s Time To Start Thinking Of Twitter As A Search Engine
At a dinner tonight with a friend the conversation turned to Twitter. He just didn’t get it, and he’s certainly not the first person to tell me that. Specifically, my friend didn’t understand the massive valuation ($250 million or more)…
Startup2Startup Tackles Web Design As Measure Map Founder Unveils Latest Project
Last Thursday over 140 entrepreneurs, investors, and startup rookies came together for Startup2Startup, a monthly invite-only dinner built around fostering the startup community. This month’s featured speaker was Adaptive Path founding partner and ex-Googler Jeffrey Veen, who walked the audience…
Hulu Gets An Unofficial Desktop App In MyMediaPlayer2
Everything comes around full circle. First we had Joost, Babelgum, Veoh, and others create standalone client software for watching online videos, but the ease and ubiquity of watching directly in the browser trumped whatever technical benefits a standalone client provided.…
Skittles - Teeth-Rotting Evil Or Savvy Marketing? They Don’t Care So Long As We Tweet About Them
Whoever is running the digital marketing for the Skittles candy brand has a strong constitution. They are clearly not afraid of the Wildean maxim “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” Today, the Mars-owned…
Hands-on With the Vue Personal Video Network
Wireless webcams are traditionally difficult to set-up and install. I remember one model I used required a quick trip down to the server room to open a number of fairly exciting ports in my firewall which threatened to tear down…
Amazon Caves to Authors Guild: Text-to-Speech Now Optional
Well done to the Authors Guild! Amazon revealed last night that the text-to-speech feature in the Kindle 2 will now be optional for publishers. The guild had been tenaciously fighting this feature, arguing that it had the potential to turn…
Facebook Pages Redesign Coming
Facebook launched Facebook Ads in November 2007 to give brands and businesses a way to create a presence on Facebook and interact with users. Starting next week, says a source with knowledge of the new product, those pages will be…
JPG Magazine Has Been Acquired, Lives Anew
JPG Magazine, the innovative photography magazine that was composed of user-submitted photographs and shut down last month, has been revived. The magazine’s assets have been acquired by a group of investors who will also continue to employ some of the…
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