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Eyealike, Lookalike

Anne Zelenka, Monday, November 12, 2007 at 7:00 AM PT Comments (4)

ActiveSymbols’ Eyealike visual search launches in beta today, allowing you to find dates that look like someone else you find attractive — the person that dumped you last year, your favorite coworker, or America’s Next Top Model, for example. If you’re not in the market for someone new, you can discover your celebrity lookalike, but [...]

Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up

Anne Zelenka, Friday, November 9, 2007 at 11:57 AM PT Comments (19)

A couple of weeks ago, Edelman marketing strategist Steve Rubel declared the Web 2.0 world to be skunk drunk on its own Kool Aid. But I’ve seen signs of sobriety recently. Kleiner Perkins has said no more Web 2.0 startups. Teqlo shut down abruptly once investors were no longer willing to fund their continued search [...]

Mashup Startup Teqlo Shuts Down After Struggles

Anne Zelenka, Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 9:08 AM PT Comments (15)

EXCLUSIVE: Mashup maker startup Teqlo has shut down. This less than four months after VC Peter Rip, then of Teqlo investor Leapfrog Ventures, shared the growing pains Teqlo was suffering after realizing that the world didn’t want yet another do-it-yourself application builder.
“Over the next few [weeks] [months] the site will begin to molt,” Rip [...]

Let’s Be Friends: AdFriends

Anne Zelenka, Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 9:30 AM PT Comments (5)

The dueling advertising announcements out of Facebook and MySpace have once again put privacy concerns into the spotlight. Technology commentator Esther Dyson suggests that instead of legislative relief such as a Do Not Track list, forward-thinking businesses should cooperate with their customers and potential customers in social network-style harmony. In other words: Let’s [...]

AdaptiveBlue Announces ClosedPrivate, BluePhone News Expected Soon

Anne Zelenka, Monday, November 5, 2007 at 5:30 PM PT Comments (3)

Facebook moved first with the F8 platform. Then Google (GOOG) and a coalition of other social networks responded with OpenSocial. Now, at today’s Defrag conference, semantic web startup AdaptiveBlue has announced ClosedPrivate, the latest strike in the worldwide social applet war. CEO and founder Alex Iskold apparently instigated the ClosedPrivate effort in a closed [...]

HiveLive Takes Web 2.0 Upscale

Anne Zelenka, Monday, November 5, 2007 at 5:00 AM PT Comments (4)

Social information sharing startup HiveLive launches their LiveConnect Community Platform today at the Defrag conference in Denver, but it’s not HiveLive’s first appearance on the web scene. In 2006, they opened a private beta that looked to some like just another Web 2.0 social sharing site. Now they’re finding success bringing the social web to [...]

OpenSocial Advertising for All!

Anne Zelenka, Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 4:51 PM PT Comments (15)

MySpace has signed on to OpenSocial, bringing to its 100-plus million users the wonders of mini social applications à la Facebook F8. MySpace (NWS) already announced plans to open their platforms to third-party developers, but the Google (GOOG) connection comes as a bit of a surprise.
Social media standards pioneer Dave Winer says, “Google [...]

Google to Facebook: I Want to Suck Your (Social) Blood

Anne Zelenka, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 6:00 PM PT Comments (8)

Maybe Google should have doodled a vampire on their home page today, in honor of Halloween and their announcement of OpenSocial, a set of APIs that allows web developers to write applications once, then deploy them on a variety of different social networking platforms.
This could be a direct attack by Google (GOOG) on Facebook’s [...]

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