It turns out Kiko, the web calendar that sparked a thousand bubble-or-not conversations, was bought by Tucows. Kiko had put itself up for sale on eBay and sold for $258,100. Tucows is a public domain name registrar that sells hosted email, website tools, et cetera. You… Read More »
Bio:Liz Gannes has been a Silicon Valley-based business technology reporter since 2004. She currently covers the web for GigaOM. In 2006, she founded NewTeeVee, a GigaOM Network site that is now the preeminent source for news and analysis about the intersection of entertainment and technology. She graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in linguistics and started her career as a reporter at Red Herring.
Disclosures and conflicts of interest: Liz’s husband does some contract work for Facebook. Neither of them are shareholders in the company.
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Update: I should note the backlash on these new features (funnily enough, some of it came to me through my new Facebook news feed). Many Facebook users are displeased, particularly since the news feeds’ default privacy options make everything viewable. More than 100,000 users joined a… Read More »
MySpace is opening shop as an indie record store — make that 3 million indie record stores. Using Snocap’s backend, MySpace plans to give all the musical artists on its site the option to set up online storefronts on their profile pages and their fans’ profile… Read More »
A couple launches to watch out for after the long weekend: MyStrands (formerly MusicStrands), a social music recommendation service, is working on mobile social software for partygoers called partyStrands — think a Dodgeball-jukebox hybrid. Visitors to a participating bar can text song requests… Read More »
YouTube just flexed its social networking muscles by adding restricted college-specific video-sharing areas. The site has long had many of the features of a social network (personal profiles, friending, et cetera), but so much of its utility is in showing videos to everybody and anybody. Now,… Read More »
How did Guba dupe everyone into writing up its “Tell a Friend” affiliate deal to pay out 25 cents to people who refer new users? People, it’s a quarter! When I visited the Guba offices recently, they grabbed me a couple quarters out of a company… Read More »
Tim O’Reilly announced this morning that O’Reilly and CMP are spinning off their Web 2.0 conference so the little people can participate too. The four-day “Web 2.0 Expo” will be held next April at Moscone, with a tech conference, tutorials, and a trade show floor. We… Read More »
