When word leaked that Yahoo was planning to "sunset" social-bookmarking site Delicious, at least one person was happy: Maciej Ceglowski, the founder of competing service Pinboard.But first, he was terrified.When he came into work that morning, traffic to the site was about 50 hits per second, 20 ti
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The Stampede From Yahoo's Delicious To A Competitor
Posted by splatforms under Products and ServicesFrom http://www.sfgate.com 5012 days ago
Google Profiles lets you say more about yourself
Posted by splatforms under Products and ServicesFrom http://www.zdnetasia.com 5013 days ago
The ongoing saga of Google's attempt to "get" social media has been full of so many disappointments--and more recently, so much silence--that sometimes it seems like the company has just given up on it entirely.Whether Google's still working on a massive operation slated to take a bite out of Faceb
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Rumor: Facebook resumes talks with Skype
Posted by splatforms under Products and ServicesFrom http://www.zdnet.com 5014 days ago
You may soon be able to start a Skype video call with your friends on Facebook. The latest rumor suggests that Facebook and Skype have resumed talks about integrating the video conferencing technology on the social network.The two companies first talked about a potential partnership in September 20
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Using Social Bookmarking Sites Correctly To Gain Traffic
Posted by splatforms under Products and ServicesFrom http://digitalripple.org 5020 days ago
Social bookmarking, over the last couple of years, has risen to a highly popular level with regards to generating highly targeted traffic for your website. It’s been only a few years since the web has turned social, but the effects have been massive. If you have a blog or a website that you would l
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100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events
Posted by splatforms under Products and ServicesFrom http://mashable.com 5021 days ago
Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences.Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please request the Mashable Media Partnership Guidelines. If your event meets our requirements, contact us at least 45 d
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Yahoo informs MyBlogLog users of shutdown
Posted by splatforms under Products and ServicesFrom http://news.cnet.com 5023 days ago
Users of MyBlogLog, a start-up that Yahoo acquired in 2007 for about $10 million, received an e-mail early today announcing the service's demise.The announcement is not exactly a surprise. MyBlogLog was one of the Yahoo services listed on a leaked presentation screenshot from December as a property
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Google, Apple to Spar in Mobile Augmented Reality
Posted by splatforms under Products and ServicesFrom http://www.eweek.com 5028 days ago
Google and Apple are set to tussle in mobile augmented reality, pitting the iPhone versus Android handsets, according to ABI Research, which sees a $3 billion AR market.Google and Apple meet on several battlefields in the mobile computing war, but there is one big front where the rivals have yet to
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Google Courts Yahoo Users With New Delicious Bookmarks Importer Tool
Posted by splatforms under Products and ServicesFrom http://techcrunch.com 5031 days ago
The Delicious saga continues … In reaction to what many have thought to be Yahoo’s mismanagement of the popular bookmarking service Delicious in the past couple of months, many people have tried to roll their own Delicious importers in hopes of taking advantage of the traffic exodus. Google too has
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Build your online networks using social annotations
Posted by splatforms under Products and ServicesFrom http://www.sciencedaily.com 5031 days ago
Researchers at Toshiba are working on a way of finding clusters of like-minded bloggers and others online using "social annotations." Social annotations are the tags and keywords, the comments and feedback that users, both content creators and others associate with their content. Their three-step a
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Twitter CEO says it won’t be acquired by Google, avoids talking about Facebook
Posted by splatforms under Products and ServicesFrom http://www.digitaltrends.com 5034 days ago
Following all the positive hype Twitter’s been receiving at Mobile World Congress, it’s fittingly been followed up with acquisition talks involving Google and Facebook. Reports stemming from the Wall Street Journal last week labeled these “low-level talks,” emphasis on “low” according to Twitter CE
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