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Jango's Social Music Service Shines In a Crowded Market

Jango is a social music site. Jango was founded by an international band of mysterious outlaws; they participated in the first bubble, including in European giant portal Spray and "monopoly cable TV stations" more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Music  |  

Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks

Weak ties are relationships we have with people outside our own social networks. We don’t utilize them often, but we utilize them in certain situations to help us with things our social networks can’t. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Social Networking  |  

Jump Start Websites With Jumpchart

Diagrams play a very important role in planning and communicating a site’s architecture. They help you visualize a project before developing and piecing things together, leading to smarter design decisions. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Web 2.0  |  

Forget Paper and Sign Contracts Online With Tractis

Tractis, which recently came out of private beta, allows you to negotiate and execute worldwide legally binding contracts online. Tractis’ focus is making e-commerce more safe by providing not only digital more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Enterprise Apps  |  

How the Portals Will Win the Social Networking Wars

Steve Rubel talks about Social Networking Wars: "Every time I make a prediction, there's a better than 90% chance I am going to be wrong. But this one, you can take to the bank. The portals - AOL, Yahoo, more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Social Networking  |  

2007 Web 2.0 Summit Review: Evolution Web 2.0 Conference Over 2 Years

It all started when Tim O'Reilly defined the term Web 2.0. We saw a new wave of Web 2.0 startups in comming years and Web 2.0 technologies mature and go main stream. This article by Richard captures the more...
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Zango Acquires Smart Shopper for $9 Million

Zango is primarily in spyware business and has acquired SmartShopper reportedly for $9 Million. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

Facebook's stealth ad system may compete with Google

Valleywag is running a story on the stealth ad system of Facebook which may compete with Google. The argument is that users volunteer data to Facebook, which Facebook is not using to enable advertisers more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Social Networking  |  

Zimbra - Why Did Yahoo spent $350 Million?

A good post by Richard talking about why Zimbra was bought by Yahoo recently. Richard argues that Zimbra been the poster child in Web 2.0 space since 2005. He also discusses the suitability of deploying more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

JPG and 8020Publishing.com

Another writeup on 8020 Publishing.com more...
Discuss  |  Topic: New Media  |