If you think downloading yet another mobile app featuring photo-sharing, geo-location, and social networking is crazy, prepare yourself for a moment of insanity. Meet Trover, a really nifty new iPhone app launched in May that perfectly fills the gaps left by Instagram, Foursquare and Yelp. Trover, which is free, allows you to instantly share...
Despite its recent IPO, there’s a strong feeling among many people online that the professional network LinkedIn doesn’t quite work for them. Despite its millions of users, it isn’t necessarily easy to find people on LinkedIn that you’d want to work for you. And just as importantly, young people in particular feel as though...
LightSquared, the company trying to build a wholesale 4G wireless network using spectrum gained through a mix of FCC waivers, satellite airwaves, a yet-to-be-built terrestrial network and a helluva lot of gumption may have signed a deal with Sprint, according to a report out from Bloomberg. The article quotes a letter sent by Harbinger Capital...
Can’t see it here on this blog other than a vague greyed-out shape. I can’t see it getting traction unless clicking +1 gives some reward and has some social payback. At the moment, it has neither, so it will rightly fail. Google need to have a startup attitude about social, or they will fail...
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Nimbuzz, a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based Internet telephony company, says it has signed up 50 million registered users across the globe. That’s minuscule when compared to big daddy of Internet telephony, Skype, but it’s still significant milestone for the upstart company. In less than a year ,the company has doubled its registered users, adding about 100,000...
Wanting to boost the profile of its social network and explain the advantages of its service in Japan, Facebook has authorised the creation of “Facebook Navi“, a navigation service which provides its Japanese users with an overview on the service, its applications and Pages. Facebook Navi is the “world’s first official navigation service” for...
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