GetJar, a independent mobile application store, has launched a service dubbed the App Download Page, which points people to the versions of apps that are compatible with their mobile phones. By taking the guesswork out of which version to download, the thinking goes, the overall number of app downloads will rise.
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Exponential, an Online Ad Network, Cuts Jobs
In what is a sign of the times, online ad network Exponential has cut nearly eight percent of its staff as it prepares for what is shaping up to be a nuclear winter in the advertising business. The Emeryville, Calif.-based company runs and operates many digital advertising and marketing entities, though it is best [...] Continue »
The Ad Network Shakeout Has Started
The advertising network business is going to go through a gut-wrenching shakeout, and its just about getting started. The Wall Street Journal says trouble is looming for 300-odd niche ad networks and points to the shuttering of JellyCloud and lay-offs at San Francisco-based AdBrite. Even Advertising.com, a division of Time Warner, is suffering from softening [...] Continue »
Prying Open the Social Graph
Last week, I pointed out that MySpace’s Data Availability efforts were welcome in that they expand the number of sites on which a user can use her MySpace data, but that MySpace still had a lock on the user data since it hosted and determined who could display that data by approving site partners. If MySpace’s efforts were three steps forward in opening up user profiles, then Google’s Friend Connect represents two steps back. Continue »
MySpace Builds a Bigger Walled Garden
MySpace today launched announced a data availability initiative that will allow users to opt in to sharing their MySpace information on a variety of partner sites. While not exactly complete data portability (the social networking company also said it was joining the Data Portability Project), it’s a start.
MySpace is launching its data availability efforts with [...] Continue »
100 M&A Deals. 100 Startup Lessons
Our friend Steven Nielsen over at PartnerUp , the online network that helps entrepreneurs find co-founders, sent us a handy index he has compiled of all the major mergers and acquisitions of Web startups that took place in 2007.
Check it out: Steve’s List of 2007 Startup M&A.
Many of these deals have been written about here, […] Continue »
100 M&A Deals. 100 Startup Lessons
Our friend Steven Nielsen over at PartnerUp , the online network that helps entrepreneurs find co-founders, sent us a handy index he has compiled of all the major mergers and acquisitions of Web startups that took place in 2007.
Check it out: Steve’s List of 2007 Startup M&A.
Many of these deals have been written about here, […] Continue »
Looking Back: The Year in Web 2.0
A look back at some of the Web 2.0 stories we covered this year:
January. Yahoo bought MyBlogLog. Daylife, a webified newspaper with Jeff Jarvis as an adviser and Craig Newmark as an investor, launched. And browser preview startup Browster bid us good-bye.
February. Yahoo! launched its RSS mashup service Pipes. Facebook rolled out gifts, allowing members […] Continue »
Digg To Add Photos To The Mix
Kevin Rose and I discussed the possibility of adding Images section to Digg almost a year ago. Seems like it is finally getting done. Tonight, Digg will add voting on photos to its growing list of categories, co-founder Kevin Rose writes on the Digg blog. As part of the announcement, the San Francisco-based company says PhotoBucket will add Digg-buttons next to millions on photos […] Continue »
Investors Take a Stroll with Widgets
2007 was supposed to be the Year of the Widget, according to Newsweek, and Jon Swartz of USA Today apparently agrees that the promise has been fulfilled. He says:
[Widgets] are all the rage on the Web. Marketers are thinking of ways to use them to sell ads, and venture capitalists are mulling investments in the […] Continue »
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