Offerpal Gets Its Third...
Offerpal Media has just announced that Mihir Shah has been named president and CEO, while chairman and former CEO George Garrick has been named executive chairman. This is Offerpal’s third CEO in a year; Anu Shukla left the company last November following the Scamville drama and...
The Problem With Ping...
With the launch of Ping this week in the latest update for iTunes, Apple is finally adding social elements to its software. Ping is essentially a social music discovery feature in iTunes. You can friend, follow, or lurk to see what music other people on iTunes—people you know, people...
Gmail’s Permanent Fai...
Editor’s note : Guest author Adam Rifkin is a Silicon Valley veteran who organizes a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers called 106 Miles. In this post he argues that Gmail is perhaps not the best vessel for Google’s social ambitions. Last week was marred for me by...
Fun Photo App Treehouse...
What I want is simple: a way to share certain things with my friends, and other things with everyone. “Simple” is the keyword there because you can do that with Facebook, but it’s not simple enough . I want flick-one-switch simple, not create list, use drop-down, choose...
TweetUp Now Includes Up...
Twitter search and advertising startup platform operator TweetUp has announced today that its search engine for Twitter will be expanding to include bios and updates posted to other social networks, including LinkedIn and Facebook. Because the company will no longer be solely based on...
Check (In) Yo’ Self B...
This is a guest post by Hunter Walk ( @hunterwalk ) who conducted a survey of 500 Foursquare users to better understand their check in behaviors and motivations. His obsession with Foursquare is unrelated to his day job leading the consumer product team at YouTube , although he did at...
Phone Numbers Are Dead,...
Editor’s note : The following guest post is by Nikhyl Singhal , the co-founder and CEO of voice-application startup SayNow . Is it conceivable that one of our greatest inventions, the phone number, is about to face extinction? Just ask Mark Zuckerberg. Go here to see the...
Wow. If You Think Quitt...
I promise this is my last word on the subject. I had already promised myself, actually, that I wouldn’t write any more about my decision to quit Facebook, Linkedin, Foursquare, Blippy, Yammer, Dopplr and every other social network other than Twitter. Go here to read the rest: Wow....
Red Vines: A Case Study...
As a bona fide lover of Red Vines*, I found the Red Vines World of Sharing social media promotion quite intruiging. Essentially you go to the site, gain access by logging in or connecting with Facebook, and you then leave a note about Red Vines or sharing or kittens or whatever....