All Facebook |
August 5th, 2008 |
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As Facebook's growth domestically has slowed, Facebook has looked abroad for continued growth opportunities. So far Facebook has been experiencing some phenomenal growth, especially in Latin America. Unfortunately though, the spectacular growth that Facebook is looking for in other countries is not coming easily. An Associated Press article this morning [...]
All Facebook |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Following a successful first round of the Facebook fbFund competition, Facebook is kicking off their second round. The 25 winners from the first round of the competition will win $25,000 to build out their applications and have the ability to apply for the second round where 5 winners will be [...]
Portfolio |
August 5th, 2008 |
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-- For Sale: Facebook shares! Don't let the lack of a business plan scare you off. [Portfolio.com]-- Lenovo unveiled a low-cost "sub-notebook" computer, priced at $399. Right in time for the recession! [Dow Jones Newswires]-- Cablevision has won a court ruling allowing it to proceed with its plans for "network [...]
BGSL |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Sales 2.0 is a new approach to B2B sales. Quite simply, the Sales 2.0 approach provides sales organizations:Increased proximity to prospectsThe ability to replicate and standardize selling best practicesSuperior visibility into sales rep effectivenessThe result is greater intimacy with your prospects/ repeat customers. However the process in effect actually works [...]
On Tuesday, Brad Neuberg from Google's Developer Program visited LinkedIn's headquarters in Mountain View to give a presentation on Gears to the engineering department as part of our series of LinkedIn Tech Talks. Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, and provides for a better [...]
Continuing our series of posts on how LinkedIn has made a difference in users' careers, let's focus our attention today on the advertising industry. Dave Smith is the CEO of MediaSmith, a media planning and buying agency, who found two of his biggest clients on LinkedIn. Here's what MediaSmith does [...]
Following our Spanish launch video last week, our faithful readers may have come away with the impression that the entire LinkedIn team is fluent in Spanish, and that we mix this popular Romance language casually with colloquial English and the roughneck slang of Silicon Valley. But here's the startling truth: [...]
You can never go wrong by starting off the week with LinkedIn Answers' question of the week. Hopefully, with each passing question that we highlight, you get to stumble upon yet another category that you did not realize existed within Answers' extensive ecosystem. This week, we focus on a category [...]
Classified Web site Oodle.com is adding MySpace to its mix.[...]
Last Friday, what BoomTown would call the Web's first bona fide hit ended, as the lonelygirl15 online series finale took place with 12 video segments uploaded over 12 hours. Now, apparently, it is time to meet EQAL, a "social entertainment company" that is still essentially the two guys-Greg Goodfried and [...]
Friendster raises $20 million in cash and hires a new chief executive from Google.[...]
MediaShift |
August 5th, 2008 |
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I just wanted to update readers on changes that are happening here at PBS MediaShift and Idea Lab. In early June, I put out a call for new correspondents and "embeds" to write for MediaShift. I want to add more voices to this blog besides mine, open it up to [...]
MediaPost |
August 5th, 2008 |
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What began with businesses carving out communities in large social networks like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn has evolved into a growing number of tailored online communities catering to even the smallest sectors. Indeed, Forrester Research predicts that adoption of social networking technology by small businesses will grow by 20% to [...]
Employees of social networking giants Facebook and LinkedIn aren't likely to get any liquidity event (IPO, sale) any time soon. By this point some employees would be understandably anxious to cash in. At Facebook, there have been a few ex-employees selling shares on the private market, though current employees are [...]
Portfolio |
August 3rd, 2008 |
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Kevin Maney writes: There's a lot of skepticism around the tech industry regarding Google's apparent plan to create a venture capital unit. The phrase "more money than sense" comes to mind -- kind of like the newly wealthy guy who decides to invest in a high-end restaurant. First of all, [...]
Think beyond Facebook and stop being a control freak. Our author provides these and other tips for making the most of your social media campaign.[...]
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