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MySpace Developer Platform Launches in Beta

Stacey Higginbotham, Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 12:00 PM PT Comments (3)

Almost a year after Facebook opened up its social network to developers, MySpace is launching its own developer platform in public beta with an application Gallery Page available to users. It’s based on Google’s OpenSocial platform, which MySpace helped develop. MySpace announced the platform in late January and said it would be ready in early [...]

GigaOM Interview: AOL’s COO Ron Grant on the Bebo Buy

Om Malik, Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 9:11 AM PT Comments (6)

This morning after AOL said it would spend $850 million to buy social networking site Bebo, I had a chance to chat with Ron Grant, AOL’s chief operating officer. What follows is an edited version of our conversation.
OM: Why Bebo?
GRANT: Bebo is one of the best social media companies out there. They are more than [...]

Question of the Day: Site Membership Models

Carleen Hawn, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 12:04 AM PT Comments (0)


Today’s Question of the Day comes from early Found|READ contributor, Sanchit Bhatnagar, cofounder of a New Delhi-based webshop called Toufee, where consumers can make Flash-based movies. (Obviously, San’s been burning the candle!) Here is San’s MySpace profile, too.

San wants advice on what kind of membership model works best for monetization and customer growth purposes on […]

How to Work The Room 4.0: Getting “Man-Charm”

Larry Chiang, Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 12:03 AM PT Comments (19)

Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment in Larry Chiang’s series on “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School.” (He’s turning it into a book.) What could founders do with “Man-Charm,” you ask? Answers Larry: “Founders can use man-to-man charm to grow their good ol’ boy network because every path […]

Feb. 20, 2008: A Push for PC Gaming and Less IP

Stacey Higginbotham, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 5:37 AM PT Comments (0)

The Register: Qualcomm and the Real Story Behind The Mobile World Congress ArsTechnica: Amazon Hopes to Chill Steam With Game Downloads EETimes: Alliance Formed to Promote Gaming on PC NYTimes: Microsoft Said to Plan Proxy Fight for Yahoo Reuters: Garmin Results Beat Wall Street CNet: New Details on MySpace Music Service Emerge

Feb. 13, 2008: 4G Plans and a MySpace Incubator

Stacey Higginbotham, Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 6:38 AM PT Comments (1)

Data Center Knowledge: Microsoft Considering Iowa Data Center Ars Technica: Net Neutrality Bill Poised to Surface in House Light Reading: China Mobile Joins LTE Threesome BusinessWeek: Rupert Murdoch’s New Startup Incubator Marketwatch: Nortel Sees 4G as Opportunity to Leapfrog Rivals The News Market: Google Asks U.S. School Kids to “Doodle 4 Google”

More Openness from Orkut

Stacey Higginbotham, Monday, February 11, 2008 at 2:50 PM PT Comments (3)

Following on the Open Social support of the MySpace Developer Platform, Google has launched services for programmers planning to use Open Social to build applications for its Orkut social network, including a hackathon scheduled for Feb. 14-15 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., as well as forums and chat. End users should be […]

More on MySpace’s Open Development Platform

Stacey Higginbotham, Monday, February 4, 2008 at 9:00 PM PT Comments (6)

As we’ve already noted, MySpace plans to hold a meeting for developers interested in building applications for the No. 1 social network. MySpace CTO Aber Whitcomb told us the company expects about 250 developers to show up to learn about the new development platform.

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