NileGuide is announcing the acquisition of the angel-backed Localyte, a participatory travel advice site that has had early success in engaging participation. The idea is for Localyte to help NileGuide scale up its travel advice coverage using free content to complement NileGuide’s local expert paid content. Read More »
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The new service Swipely wants to make shopping social, but not in an oversharing, soul-baring kind of way. Is that even possible? We’ll have to see, as the site from Tellme co-founder Angus Davis is launching into private beta today. Read More »
Though navel-gazers may have freaked out this morning after seeing their Twitter follower counts reset to zero, a new paper out of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany finds that Twitter follower numbers are a poor indicator of influence. Read More »
Google says it’s willing to accept its shortcomings on social and bring in a “Head of Social” to set the right course. The company has hired an executive recruiter to fill the position, and is currently in the process of casting its net widely. Read More »
Zynga and Facebook have had an extremely symbiotic relationship to date, but after Facebook tried to use its weight to hold Zynga captive the social gaming company is mad as hell. Zynga is reportedly moving forward with efforts to launch its own social gaming network. Read More »
Every web portal would love to be the dominant and trusted provider of information about local businesses. What are the chances of an open collaborative database for places? According to industry experts, such a database is a long way off. Read More »
McDonald’s will be the first marketer to use Facebook’s forthcoming location platform, according to Advertising Age. Users will be given the ability to check-in at a location using a status update on Facebook as early as this month and see a targeted featured product. Read More »
If you had any doubt that we are living in the future, Google today introduced visual translation tools for use with a camera phone. Specifically, the new version of its Google Goggles app can recognize pictures of words written in five languages and rapidly translate them. Read More »
In choosing two excerpts to publish from long-time Fortune reporter David Kirkpatrick’s new book The Facebook Effect, Fortune went for the “Jersey Shore” version, replete with a trashed summer home and puking in the party bus. It’s enough to make a movie starring Justin Timberlake! Read More »
Hearsay Labs CEO Clara Shih may be a brand-new entrepreneur with her first startup still in stealth mode, but she delivered a keynote speech today at the Web 2.0 Expo. We sat down with Shih afterwards to quiz her on what’s she’s doing with Hearsay. Read More »
Groupon, the fast-growing collective buying site, said today that it’s setting up an outpost in Silicon Valley by buying the mobile app development shop Mob.ly. We snagged some time with Mob.ly CEO Mihir Shah this afternoon and he explained the background behind the deal. Read More »
Though given the stage and the opportunity, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch declined to escalate his company’s fight against Apple to the level raised by Steve Jobs last week when he posted a 1,700-word anti-Flash screed on Apple.com. Lynch was polite but firm at Web 2.0 Expo. Read More »
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