When I saw the first trailer for the Facebook movie , The Social Network , I was a little bit ashamed to admit that I thought it actually looked pretty good.
Tag archive for "social"
The Many Bottom Lines Of Businesses
This post was written by guest contributor Leila Janah , the CEO of the nonprofit outsourced services firm Samasource .
TechCrunch TV: Keen On… Connectivity, with Clay Shirky and Charlene Li
In this guest post, author Andrew Keen introduces the second episode of his TechCrunch TV show, Keen On … If the Web 2.0 age of the first decade of the 21 st century was about user-generated-content, the Social Media age of the second decade of the century is about the way in which technology is changing our lives. Yesterday’s Web 2.0 was all about data; today’s social media is all about people. An increasingly collaborative and social Internet appears – at least to those who believe in its efficacy – to be becoming the vehicle with both society and business can be radically transformed
In Depth: 20 best mobile apps for web designers
We're in the middle of a mobile app boom, with thousands upon thousands being released every week. Some are silly, some are serious, and some just plain suck. But there are a few that web designers and developers simply can't do without
Online Panel Company uSamp Raises $10 Million From OpenView Venture Partners
uSamp (short for United Sample ), an Internet panel company with offices in Los Angeles, India, Connecticut and London, this morning announced that it has closed a $10 million Series C round of financing.
Flock Switches From Mozilla To Chromium For New Browser, But Is That Enough?
Flock , the social Web browser company, has released a new and completely different version of its desktop browser client after nearly a year of silence . The news comes about a week after Apple released Safari 5 and around the same time Opera launched a beta version of its upcoming Opera 10.60 browser
Did Amazon Miss The Boat On Social Commerce?
Few will dispute Amazon’s role as current king of the e-commerce space, but this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference raised an interesting question: Did Amazon miss the boat on social commerce? At the conference last week in New York, John Caplan , CEO, OpenSky ; Rob Kalin , CEO, Etsy ; Susan Lyne , CEO, Gilt Groupe and Dan Porter , CEO, OMGPOP sat down to discuss the idea of social commerce and where the marketplace is going in the future in terms of both monetization and socialization. All of the panelists seemed to agree that Amazon will continue to reign supreme in “commodity commerce” but will not be able to lead social commerce.
Interview: Hotmail: We’ll get the noise out of your inbox
When your users spend more time deleting messages than reading email on your webmail service, you know it's time to make email easier to deal with. "The inbox has got out of control," Chris Jones, corporate vice president for Windows Live, told TechRadar. "Our approach is to take the common things people do and make them easier." The changes coming to Hotmail this summer promise to unclutter your inbox, Jones claims.
After 3+ Years, Alex Payne Quits Twitter To Create “A Bank That Doesn’t Suck”
A couple years ago when Twitter was having major scaling issues, engineer Alex Payne was able to work through them to help create the Twitter API . That API, of course, is now one of the most important on the web
Tweets In Buzz: It’s Complicated — Well, Maybe Political
Yesterday, I moderated a panel at TiEcon featuring the heads of product for Google, Twitter, and Facebook — an interesting group, obviously. It was a good, long discussion (hopefully I’ll have the full video to post soon)
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