Facebook became the second most popular website in the UK last month, overtaking Microsoft websites for the first time as large numbers of older users took to the social network, a new report from UKOM/Nielsen suggests. Facebook saw 26.8 million Britons visit its website in May, a new record for the social network, increasing...
Daily Archives: June 27, 2011
Startups Don’t Die, They Commit Suicide
Justin Kan is the founder of Justin.tv and Socialcam. You can follow him on Twitter here and read his blog here. Startups die in many ways, but in the past couple of years I’ve noticed that the most common cause of death is what I call “Startup Suicide”, a phenomenon in which a startup’s...
Fanvibe Signs A Letter Of Intent To Be Acquired By beRecruited
As popular as sports are, and as popular as the Internet is, it’s always been a bit odd to me that the two haven’t intertwined in a completely successful way just yet. That’s why it’s always nice to hear about mergers between the two sides. And that’s exactly what beRecruited and Fanvibe have apparently...
Google Kills Two Of Its Most Ambitious Projects (GOOG)
Image: Doug Edwards, Xooglers Google is killing two of its most ambitious projects, Google Health and Google PowerMeter, because they didn’t get enough traction. These were very ambitious projects: the goal was to remake healthcare delivery, and energy distribution respectively, for the internet age. There’s certainly a lot of potential for the internet to...
Olympic committee gives 2012 athletes permission to Tweet
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said that athletes competing at next year’s Olympic Games, held in London, will be able to post updates on their experiences on Twitter, providing they don’t tweet commercially to promote products or services, Reuters reports. Utilising guidelines issued by the Australian Olympic Committee, the IOC has said it...