Archive for August, 2008

Have you ever noticed that while you know tons of facts that you discover when traveling abroad or in some cool places in your home country but thousands of miles from your home town, you sometimes lack knowledge about the area you actually live in? I have actually met people in Moscow that have never [...]

You thought for people to call you an A-lister you will have to work hard and build your blog into a noticeable name? Honestly, I used to share your opinion but that has changed today when I found out that to become an A-lister you can simply join a new blog network called exactly “A-List [...]

It looks like the business social network LinkedIn has chosen a step-by-step approach to developing LinkedIn Groups. When the functionality was launched initially it only had the very basic features enabling users to create groups and invite people to join. Those users joining groups were able to show what groups they belonged to on their [...]

Today comScore released a press release detailing its statistics on online display advertising in June – both largest publishers and largest advertisers. The data is quite predictable and I believe many of us (I mean, those that choose not to enable any ad blockers in their browsers): Microsoft is the largest advertiser followed by University [...]

Today the multilingual social network XIHA Life (“xiha” means “fun” and “happy” in Mandarin and also “Hip-Hop” in Cantonese so it should be pronounced “ziha” following the rules of Chinese language) officially debuts in the US and offers a global music distribution channel to musicians worldwide. The social network positions itself as a truly multilingual [...]

We used to talk about Facebook trying to copy FriendFeed with the addition of filters to consume the content from news feeds in the social network. Now I think we should declare that FriendFeed is trying to copy Facebook in the new beta design that is available for public preview and discussion now at beta.friendfeed.com. [...]

This week Google will be rolling out to all users its “Google Suggest” functionality that has only been available to opted-in users until now. From now on once you start typing the word you want to search for, you will get a drop-down list of suggestions with the popular search terms along with the number [...]

A few hours ago (at 6.10 p.m. PST) all the online users of the latest version of Firefox 2 started to receive prompts to upgrade to Firefox 3 finally. All the Firefox 2.0.0.17 users will be invited to upgrade within the next couple of days. This time Firefox will not upgrade itself automatically (as it [...]

Today news comes to us that Amazon has finally acquired the social network for bibliophiles Shelfari. Amazon has been a long-time supporter of the Seattle-based startup with its investment of September 2007 but the relationships now move to the higher level with the acquisition. Shelfari developers do not disclose either the acquisition amount or what [...]