social networks

New data shows that Facebook is growing really fast in key overseas markets. That doesn’t necessarily mean more dollars for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company or end of MySpace, though it seems bad news for its smaller, middle of the road rivals. Continue Reading Read More »

 The big news tonight is business social network LinkedIn raised $53 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $1 billion. The new round is led by Bain Capital (the same genius investors who also funded Vonage) brings the total money raised by the company… Read More »

If you’re good at leading people in online games, you’re good at doing it in the real world. At least that’s the theory posited in two studies, one by IBM last year and another, more recent one from Harvard. Both studies noted similarities between CEO skills… Read More »

AOL has finally gulped Bebo and formed what it calls People Networks. AOL bought Bebo earlier this year for a heart stopping $850 million. The group will be run by Joanna Sheilds, formerly of Bebo. David Liu was working on the AIM, ICQ, Goowy and Yedda… Read More »

Question of the Day: Do social networks exploit their user-content generators? I don’t know if you saw Billy Bragg’s Op-Ed yesterday, The Royalty Scam, but it’s worth reading as a criticism of social media business models that leverage the intellectual and artistic capital of users to build… Read More »

Question of the Day: Do social networks exploit their user-content generators? I don’t know if you saw Billy Bragg’s Op-Ed yesterday, The Royalty Scam, but it’s worth reading as a criticism of social media business models that leverage the intellectual and artistic capital of users to build… Read More »

Question of the Day: Do social networks exploit their user-content generators? I don’t know if you saw Billy Bragg’s Op-Ed yesterday, The Royalty Scam, but it’s worth reading as a criticism of social media business models that leverage the intellectual and artistic capital of users to build… Read More »

Question of the Day: Bebo & Profit Sharing

Question of the Day: Do social networks exploit their user-content generators? I don’t know if you saw Billy Bragg’s Op-Ed yesterday, The Royalty Scam, but it’s worth reading as a criticism of social media business models that leverage the intellectual and artistic capital of users to build… Read More »

Ex-E*TRADE CEO Goes Social With MOLI

Christos Cotsakos, former CEO of E*TRADE, the online brokerage firm that revolutionized stock trading in Web 1.0, will unveil his Web 2.0 company called MOLI tomorrow at DEMO. And surprise, surprise — it’s a social network! Yet Cotsakos is undetered by what is an arguably overcrowded… Read More »

Tell Zuckerberg! Does Social Networking ‘Work’ For You?

Social networks are hot. No doubt. VCs love them. But from the user-perspective they deserve plenty of criticism, too. Why do you think the lately-controversial founder of facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, showed up on 60 Minutes Sunday night? It’s relatively easy to see how social networks are enhancing… Read More »

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