Archive for May, 2008

Animoto Receives Funding from Amazon: The Animoto.com website, launched in August 2007, currently has over 160,000 registered users and over 7.5% of those users have paid for premium services. They have just announced that they have received funding from Amazon. The terms were not disclosed.
Animoto is a web application that lets users create professional-quality videos […]

IBM Social Computing Guidelines Released: It is all about common sense; which is really not so common to the web enabled social network newbies.
The bottom line is is that more and more companies and their employees are engaging on social networks like facebook, LinkedIn, twitter, etc. Business employees are also blogging more frequently […]

Real Branding Digital Leadership Summit: We are proud to be a partner with Real Branding for this Digiltal Leadership Summit. This exclusive event is invite only.
Mark Silva (Founder of Real Branding) has assembled some of the brightest minds to share their knowledge about social media, business, trends and branding.
We will be streaming the event Tuesday […]

I was at the Google campfire event tonight for the launch of Google Friend Connect. At first pass there is a LOT to like about this. Social media is going even more mainstream and will start to live outside of “traditional” social networking sites.
Now connections can be effectively “portable” to any site that […]

Real Branding Digital Leadership Summit: We are proud to be a partner with Real Branding for this Digiltal Leadership Summit. This exclusive event is invite only.
Mark Silva (Founder of Real Branding) has assembled some of the brightest minds to share their knowledge about social media, business, trends and branding.
We will be streaming the event Tuesday […]

Google will officially announce a preview release of Google Friend Connect in about an hour. I will be on the conference call to learn as much as possible as to how Google Friend Connect will work.
Here is what we know for sure at this point:
The Friend Connect service will help website owners grow engagement by […]

We have a handful of the elusive and in demand TwitterFone.com invites. Twitterfone lets you speak your tweets and it transcribes and sends a tweet for you along with a link to the audio message. Nice!
We are holding a twitter 6 word contest over the next few days. Here are the rules:
1. Include @rumford #twitterfonecontest […]

Facebook will be getting ~50,000 new servers over the next 1-2 years. Facebook has secured a 100 million dollar lease from Triplepoint Ventures according to Business Week to fund the technology that they will need to handle all of that growth & good data that people are sharing.
Rumor has it that facebook has […]

Google Campfire Monday: Launching Google Friend Connect? We have been hearing some rumblings that Google has some big announcement around a product set of API’s for use with Open Social that is supposedly called “Friend Connect”. In theory it might allow Google Open Social developers to have access to profile information and allow those data […]

Graphing Social Patterns EAST conference is coming to Washington DC June 9-11.
GSP is the premier conference for developers and marketers building and distributing apps for MySpace, Facebook, OpenSocial and other social networking platforms. Happening June 9-11, 2008 in the Washington, DC area, this event is for both business executives and technical developers who want […]


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