Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco’
Two former Yale University law students have settled their suit brought against some 30-plus anonymous commenters who posted derogatory remarks about them on an internet forum called AutoAdmit. The comments, which ranged from standard insults to those of a more sexually explicit nature, were so vile they prompted the women to sue in order to [ Read More … ]
Here’s our collection of photos from the Web 2.0 Summit, which ran from Tuesday through Thursday in San Francisco. It’s also our 30-second summary of what you may have missed at the big digerati event. We’ll start with the last man who spoke at the conference, Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web. He [ Read More … ]
Sean Parker, a managing partner at Founder’s Fund, gave an interesting talk today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The key to it is simple: Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and eBay will dominate the web going forward. One company of note that won’t? Google.
Why? Parker believes we’re shifting from the first phase of the [ Read More … ]
At the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco AOL’s chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage for a discussion with Federated Media’s John Battelle. Armstrong, who was previously in charge of the Google ad group in America, took the AOL job in March as the company prepares the split from its parent, Time [ Read More … ]
Here’s our collection of photos from the Web 2.0 Summit, which ran from Tuesday through Thursday in San Francisco. It’s also our 30-second summary of what you may have missed at the big digerati event. We’ll start with the last man who spoke at the conference, Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web. He [ Read More … ]
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Miller sat down to talk with Federated Media’s John Battelle. Miller oversees a lot of projects for News Corp., most notably MySpace.
Below find my live notes from the Q&A (paraphrased):
JB: What do you make of this whole rodeo around Twitter?
JM: [ Read More … ]
Meez has built a virtual playground for 13 million teens in the past couple of years. Now that playground is going to get a lot bigger and more crowded as Meez integrates its Meez Nation virtual world into MySpace.
Meez users will be able to log into their virtual world directly from within the MySpace social [ Read More … ]
Scoreloop is announcing today that it will make it easier than ever for iPhone game makers to put social networking features in their games.
This so-called CoreSocial technology, described as a white label social gaming platform, lets developers insert features into their games such as score leaderboards, achievement medals, cross promotions and virtual currency. Those features [ Read More … ]
“If everybody is special, then one is.”
Such is the problem companies face when crowdsourced criticism tends to be — er — not so critical.
Yelp, a community recommendations site, is the first that comes to mind facing this problem. The average rating for its more than 7 million reviews is 3.8 stars (out of five). Co-founder [ Read More … ]
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by Virtual Goods Summit.
The 3rd annual Virtual Goods Summit will take place in San Francisco, CA on October 29-30, 2009. The event will bring together thought leaders in this space to talk about what’s changed, what’s working, and the key challenges facing the industry. This year’s lineup features executives [ Read More … ]
