Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Sean Fanning are working together again to push the boundaries of video on the Internet. We called up seven strangers on Airtime to see what they thought of the new service.
Online chat client Meebo grew organically, relying on word of mouth and a deliberately-paced test phase to maintain a stable trajectory, according to co-founder Seth Sternberg. That strategy paid off this week, when Google acquired the service for a reported $100 million.
Sports social networking platform LockerDome announced today that it has secured more than $1 million in a round of funding led by Louis Arch Angels in St. Louis.
Meebo technology might be integrated into the Google Plus social network, and also gives Google a foot in the door to competitor Facebook’s chat service, which Meebo supports.
Two entrepreneurs and veteran event planners want to create a virtual space, made possible by increasingly common smartphone use, for attendees, expo vendors and tradeshow managers that exists simultaneously with a physical conference.
According to an indie entrepreneur, low-rated social location app WhosHere has attempted to eliminate his better-received competitor.
Pinterest and Google Plus are the latest to join the ranks as a social media heavy-weights. It would have seemed like Google Plus was bound of social media greatness and Pinterest would be lost in its digital dust. But in the startup world, things almost never happen as they should.
Fictify prods and cajoles would-be writers, rewarding them for setting and completing word count goals, and lecturing them when they don’t.
If geeks are the new rockstars, then former Foursquare head of talent Morgan Missen is with the band.
Google Places is being incorporated into Google Plus — in hopes, perhaps, of enticing more users to join and actually use the fledgling social initiative.
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