You've created your dream company. It's humming along. Then someone offers you $100 million for it. Could you turn it down? What about $1 billion? These entrepreneurs did.READ»
According to a 2010 survey by Pew Research Center, 28% of Americans don’t know any of their neighbors by name, and only 9% communicate with them via email. Those unfriendly statistics are something startup Nextdoor.com hopes to change.READ»
Earlier this year, Digg founder Kevin Rose announced he was launching a new incubator, called Milk, to develop mobile apps. Today, at Web 2.0, he introduced the first of those, Oink, which he described as a tool that lets people ...READ»
Location, location, location is back in vogue, but not just for real estate junkies. The smartphone has ushered in a new economy. I turn on my smartphone and I expect magic to happen and the world around me to come alive with ...READ»
"I don't think of it as mobile location, I think of it as a content problem. How can you get access to all the information that helps you point that consumer in the right direction?" says Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman.READ»
WE TRIED changing our email address, but when Internet guru Alex Blagg of BajillionHits.biz heard we were doing a special section on networks, he started friending us across every social network, insisting that we include his list of Hot New Social Media Bizwords 2.0.READ»
Couch-surfing is only the beginning, says ANYA KAMENETZ. The Internet could unlock our natural impulse to share goals--and a global economy built on the kindness of strangers.READ»
This is the next piece in our PATTERNS series, written by IDEO. Read more from the series here.
Sounds counterintuitive, right? In reality, powerful individualism is often what leads to strong communities. Many of the most ...READ»
Tuesday November 23rd is underway folks, and there's already a bunch of tech and innovation news to get into your head before the day really starts:READ»
The interwebs are alight with discussions about Facebook's new location-based checkin service Places. Among the flurry of info and debate about its value, one thing may have been overlooked: The secret ingredient of the system that may end up making Facebook a lot of money.READ»
Another day, another local business finder/recommendation service, though this one's coming from a source you might not have imagined: AT&T. It's launching AT&T Buzz, which has been in private beta for a while to the public. ...READ»
Yelp has found a work-around for those wicked extortion rumors (and that pesky lawsuit). In a blog
post with the no-nonsense headline "We're Increasing Transparency
and Eliminating 'Favorite Review'," Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman ...READ»
Location-based social networking just got itself a tidy little mash-up. Checkin Mania uses Gowalla, Foursquare, Brightkite, and Yelp and displays all the places that the networks' users have been checkin' out. There are diddy little ...READ»
The legal pressure on Yelp is mounting: New plaintiffs have joined the case which alleges the social media review site offered to remove bad customer reviews of a business if that business bought advertising space on Yelp ...READ»
Yelp has been the subject of continued grumblings that its ethics are less than stellar--and last week, the user-generated reviews site got hit with an official class-action lawsuit making those grumblings legal accusations. Even worse, yet another (very similar) lawsuit just emerged.READ»
Conscious of the advancing, diversifying competition to its location-based gaming/info services, Foursquare is not sitting on its laurels: It's announcing new partnerships with some big-name media companies to add content to its ...READ»
Sales and marketing professionals who are using social network tools to create a dialogue with customers can link their programs to online marketing project management software to keep program details and customer correspondence ...READ»
