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 [...]
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 | Continued
Social broadcast radio network:BlogTalkRadio raises $4.6 mil
BlogTalkRadio, the online social talk radio broadcasting network, has raised $4.6 million in Series A financing. The Kraft Group, which is headed by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, was the lead investor, along with former hedge-fund manager Scott Sipprelle and other private investors.
The company plans to use the money for product enhancements: integrating video [...]
Facebook 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 [...]
Facebook blocks Google’s Friend Connect
In a surprise move, Facebook decided to block Google’s Friend Connect service announced just a few days ago. Google’s Friend connect came on the heels of Facebook Connect announced on May 9, 2008. This is a major blow to Google’s Friend connect initiative that is attempting to provide an common social API to the [...]
May 16th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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
Hot new trend - Social Gaming
After facebook, myspace , LinkedIn and a myriad of other social networks raking in rich valuations for their large user bases, it’s now a hot new trend that is emerging - Social Gaming.
While social networks such as Facebook have drawn attention for their ability to rapidly attract users, the gaming applications that run on them [...]
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
