Facebook’s blog has made an official announcement, a posting by Zuckerberg himself, about reaching their big milestone of 100 million Facebook users worldwide.
We spend all our time here trying to build the best possible product that enables you to share and stay connected, so the fact that we’re growing so quickly all over the world [...]
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Facebook touches the 100 million mark
Social Networks exploding world-wide
comScore today released a study of worldwide usage of social networking sites. Growth of social networks in North America is slowing down while seeing strong growth in other regions of the world.
During the past year, the total North American audience of social networkers has grown 9 percent compared to a much larger 25 percent growth [...]
California considering penalties for ‘cyber bullies’
If you liked picking on others when you are surfing up the internet or if you harass your classmates with your text messages, you are a ‘cyber bully’. And now, if your home state is California you might be in trouble.
Lawmakers in California are close to passing a bill in state Legislature that will enforce [...]
Friendster gets $20 million and Google Exec
Big day for Friendster! First, the social networking site announced a $20 million funding from new investor IDG Ventures. Then Richard Kimber, former Google regional managing director of South Asia, announced he is joining Friendster as its new CEO and a member of Friendster’s board of directors.
“Friendster is growing at an enormous rate in Asia [...]
Virtual world company Gaia Online raises $11 million series C
Gaia Online, the leading online hangout for teens, has raised $11 million Series C round from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). eMarketer is predicting that the number of teen internet users visiting virtual worlds will jump from the reported 8.2 million users in 2007 to 20 million in 2011, Gaia Online is targetting this growing audience [...]
July 25th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedYahoo to go beyond @yahoo.com
Yahoo! Mail, the free web mail service by Yahoo Inc. has over 266 million users worldwide. Result? Most of the good user names are gone and newcomers have to compromise with names such as ‘dave597438984@yahoo.com’. To address the issue, Yahoo will start offering emails on domain names ymail.com and rocketmail.com around noon PDT on Thursday. [...]
June 19th, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedFacebook open sources their platform - fbOpen
Facebook just open sourced their Facebook Open Platform (fbOpen), a snapshot of the infrastructure that runs the Facebook Platform. It includes the API infrastructure, the FQL parser, the FBML parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags.
According to the release - We hope this release is a starting point to [...]
Wetpaint raises $25 million, introduces social feature - Injected
Wiki company WetPaint announced that it has raised $25 million to accelerate its growth. The company also introduced a new feature - WetPaint Injected that allows publishers to wikify or rather “wetpaintify” their site.
Injected incorporates features common in social sites like inviting friends, embedded editing etc. The unique aspect of Injected is that it is [...]
Plaxo acquired by Comcast
Comcast Corp. said Wednesday that it will acquire Plaxo Inc., capping off a “redemption story” for backers of the early social networking site. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Plaxo, backed by more than $20 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, Harbinger Venture Management, Cisco Systems Inc. and Ram Shiram, offers [...]
May 15th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
US and UK lead in mobile social networks
The Nielsen group reports that a growing number of mobile users are using social networks on their mobile devices. The move to on-the-go social networking is providing companies opportunities to tap the mobile advertising market - Ads on SMS, Ads on mobile browser pages are beginning to flourish. Google recently announced integrating AdSense, AdMob and [...]
May 8th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
