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Three Places To Shop For Android Apps? How Confusing!
Written by Sarah Perez / October 23, 2008 8:00 AM / 75 Comments
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Yesterday, T-Mobile stocked their stores with G1 handset, the first smartphone to feature Google's mobile operating system "Android." Along with the device itself, the Google Android Market also went live. Continue reading »


Students Competing For Slots At Elite Colleges Resorting To "Facebook Sabotage"
Written by Sarah Perez / October 23, 2008 7:49 AM / 12 Comments
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Students competing to get into the nation's most elite colleges and universities have begun to use sneaky, under-handed tactics involving Facebook, according to a new report from the Chicago Tribune. Continue reading »


Socialcast: Gritty Yammer Alternative
Written by Bernard Lunn / October 23, 2008 5:30 AM / 3 Comments
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Yes there are profitable, self-funded SaaS product companies out there. They're the ones we're celebrating in our Gritty Entrepreneur series. To that end, we recently interviewed Timothy Young, CEO of Continue reading »


Why Platforms Are Letting Us Down - And What They Should Do About It
Written by Alex Iskold / October 22, 2008 10:10 PM / 18 Comments
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In good times everyone wants to be a platform. But when times are bad and platforms are just an expense, the resources suddenly shift away. The recent re-design of Facebook, Continue reading »


Health 2.0: Rules of Engagement
Written by Lidija Davis / October 22, 2008 10:00 PM / 5 Comments
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In the middle of one of the worst economic crises experienced by the US, Health 2.0 Advisor Jane Sarasohn-Kahn confirmed today that US citizens are not as focused on heath Continue reading »


LinkedIn: $75.7 Million in Series D with Follow-on
Written by Rick Turoczy / October 22, 2008 9:58 PM / 6 Comments
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LinkedIn, a social networking juggernaut by anyone's standards and one of the few successful social sites targeted at business users, announced today that the company had secured an additional $22.7 Continue reading »


Report: Social Web Usage Tipped in 2008
Written by Richard MacManus / October 22, 2008 9:20 PM / 9 Comments
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A new report by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research states that usage of social technologies increased markedly in 2008: three in four US online adults now use social tools to Continue reading »


Pelotonics Integrates Evernote into Project Management
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 22, 2008 5:16 PM / 12 Comments
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Three weeks ago we wrote about the release of the new Application Programming Interface (API) of sophisticated note taking system Evernote. We said we were excited to see what outside Continue reading »


Health 2.0 and The New Economics of Aggregation
Written by Lidija Davis / October 22, 2008 3:00 PM / 5 Comments
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Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations, considers Health 2.0 to be the new economics of aggregation - both information and people. Speaking to Continue reading »


OpenID Day Coming Soon for MySpace
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 22, 2008 2:20 PM / 1 Comments
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This summer MySpace announced that it would implement OpenID and a number of new user data hooks for developers to build mashups with. That announcement was made in July and Continue reading »


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