‘Social Networking’ Archives
15+ Online Tools For The Perfect Prom
Prom is one of those events that defines most people’s high school experiences, so naturally that means there’s a wide assortment of prom-related websites. While iJustine’s option to go to a LAN party instead may seem more appealing to most of our readers, for those of you who might want to go may want to take advantage of these [...]
Robert Scoble Joins Up with Revision3
Robert Scoble is apparently intent on filming and documenting every spare moment in his life, as he’s now embarking on yet another video podcasting project, this time with Revision3 Networks. At the MediaBistro event in NYC today, Scoble gave a speech on something he’s been calling the “WorldWide Talk Show,” which [...]
Clearspring Gets $18M to Make Smarter Widget Ads
Clearspring, the widget company that has broken into the advertising and distributed media realm, has raised $18 million in a Series C round of funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Novak Biddle Venture Partners, with existing investors also participating in the round. Harry Weller, a partner at NEA, will be joining the Clearspring [...]
TuneGlue: Cool Music Discovery Tool… That Seems Hidden
It seems TuneGlue has been around for over a year now, but yet people are still discovering that it even exists. The only time we can find it mentioned in our archives is on December 15th, 2006, wherein Pete announced it was being worked on, but after that, not a whole of anything. Then all of a sudden David Utter of WebProNews talked about it, [...]
World’s Second Best Hacker Causes $50 in Damage
Remember the story we did on the second best hacker in the world? It was a twisted tale of deceipt and corporate espionage with a potential damages payment by News Corp of up to $1 billion: The hacker in question, Christopher Tarnovsky, was allegedly hired by a subsidiary of News Corp to develop ‘pirating software’ designed to [...]
The Military Catches Up to Al Qaeda in New Media
Blogger and former Fred Thompson for President eCampaign Director Sean Hackbarth brought up an interesting set of observations today regarding the military and its policy towards soldier-blogging. As the late military blogger Andrew Olmstead noted (along with a number of other tech blogs and news sources), many of the members of the military had [...]
