Daily Archives: June 11, 2011

Middle East governments struggle with being social

June 11, 2011

Since international media has struggled to slap the convenient label of the Facebook Revolution on the Egyptian uprising, it seems that Middle Eastern governments have been the first ones to sit up and take notice of the name. Fittingly, the Egyptian Supreme Council for Armed Forces seems to have been in the lead, launching...

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Groupon: Still Getting It In The Ass In China

June 11, 2011

Andrew Mason has been visiting Beijing and Groupon HQ has finally realized there are some problems in China. On the Forbes website, Rebecca Fannin reports: CEO Andrew Mason just arrived in China and hasn’t wasted time shaking things up. Four expatriate executives at Groupon who were recruited from rival site Ftuan just a few months ago...

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TechCrunch Turns 6

June 11, 2011
TechCrunch Turns 6

TechCrunch turns 6 years old today. Back on June 11, 2005, Michael Arrington wrote his first blog post. Then he started having parties in the backyard of his old house in Atherton, one of the YouTube guys showed up to one of them, there were lots more parties, and the rest is history. Michael’s...

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Joomla Quietly Crosses 23 Million Downloads, Now Powering Over 2,600 Government Sites

June 11, 2011
Joomla Quietly Crosses 23 Million Downloads, Now Powering Over 2,600 Government Sites

According to BuiltWith, of the top million websites using content management systems (or CMSes), three systems own more than 75 percent of the total market share: WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. (All of which are open source, by the way.) Many are likely most familiar with WordPress, which TechCrunch has covered quite a bit (and...

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Small wins beat stretch goals in collaborative projects

June 11, 2011
Small wins beat stretch goals in collaborative projects

Imagine you’re about to start a new collaborative, cross-timezone project and you are hoping to get the whole team on board with your favorite online workspace. Do you set up the whole space and walk them through each capability: group calendar, project management tool, resource library of helpful documents, collaborative editing, etc? Or, do...

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Contest Asks People To “Draw The Internet”

June 11, 2011
Contest Asks People To “Draw The Internet”

Can you draw the Internet? No seriously can you? ArtWeLove, DeviantArt, digital ad agency Saint, The NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and The NYC Department of Education partnered up this Internet Week in a gallery exhibition of “Can You Draw The Internet?”, a contest that asks people to “capture the spirit of the...

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