Location Rise of the Event-Based Social Networks With interest in location-based social networks (LBSN) hitting an all-time high with Foursquare's recent funding announcement valuing the company at $115 million, a new type of social networking has emerged that borrows some of the mechanics and incentives from location-based services: event-based social networks (EBSNs). While LBSN… Social Guest Author View comments
Microsoft Microsoft Warns Webmasters: You Might Be Dropped From New Search Formats Both Microsoft and Yahoo have announced that the two companies have begun testing the partnership originally inked a year ago, which will bring Bing search results to Yahoo. The testing is currently affecting a quarter of Yahoo's search traffic and, while not site-wide, Microsoft is warning on its blog that webmasters should be diligent in making… Mike Melanson View comments
Google Google Invests $4.25M in Crowdsourced Online Ad Marketplace Trada Back in May, we mentioned that Boulder startup Trada - a crowdsourced solution for creating keyword-based pay-per-click (PPC) ad campaigns - had introduced support for Microsoft's Bing search engine. Today, Trada is getting a huge leg-up from Bing's competition as Google Ventures has invested over $4 million, leading the company's latest round of… Chris Cameron View comments
Apple View Complete Contact and Conversation History with Silentale for iPhone Silentale, the searchable archive of all your email and Web-based communication, is now available as a mobile app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Like the desktop version of the service, the new app provides a "360 degree view of your contacts," explains the company, including conversation history with email recipients, Facebook friends, Twitter… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Apple Flipboard, New "Social" iPad Magazine will be Powered by Semantic Data The stealthy Kleiner Perkins-backed startup called Flipboard has now been revealed to be, as some suspected, a social application for the iPad. The new Flipboard iPad app bills itself as a "social magazine" - that is, one which aggregates status updates, tweets, photos and articles from those you're connected to on social networking sites, like… Social Sarah Perez View comments