Sheryl Sandberg, the Vice President of Global Online Sales & at Google for six years, has deflected to Facebook where she will serve as their new Chief Operating Officer. Facebook announced the move today, and Sandberg will officially join the Facebook team just after Easter on March 24, 2008. As Facebook’s new COO, Sandberg will …
Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new site appeared on the web every day and could be announced via an email newsletter and checked out by everybody every day. The sites were generally good and rich on content. Junk was the exception, …
Today the Yahoo Video Blog announced not just an update to Yahoo Video, but a complete overhaul and all-new site. Some of the new features include a 16:9 widescreen video player, increased file sizes, lots more content, embeddable videos and playlists, and a whole lot more! Most noticeable is the focus on social networking type …
On Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Yahoo introduced a new mobile service called “oneConnect” which is designed to aggregate contacts and communications around what they refer to as a “socially connected address book.” oneConnect will be the first mobile product with open architecture to aggregate communication tools, including email, instant messaging, and …
On Monday MySpace announced the launch of their developer platform, and beginning today developers can begin building applications for use with the popular social networking site. What is interesting about this so-called launch is that it is launching without any actual applications for users to mess around with. Instead, the idea is that all developers …
The quest for the next big thing in search is never-ending. Existing search engines are constantly revising and updating, and new search engines are popping up every day. Today I’d like to introduce you to a new socially connected search engine by the name of Delver, which was discussed at Demo 08. Delver will be …
Adding to today’s announcement of MySpace SelfServe Ads and AOL’s acquisition of Quigo, Facebook just released the news about its much anticipated and overly hyped social ads program. The official press release highlights three components of the Facebook ad programs. Facebook Pages – where businesses can create their own pages with the Facebook network to …
Sometime in July, MySpace rolled out a new sitewide advertising program called HyperTargeting by MySpace. From the words of Michael Barrett, Chief Revenue Officer for Fox Interactive Media, HyperTargeting by MySpace’s mission: …was to build an ad platform that translates our massive amounts of self expressed user data into highly-targeted, interest-based segments, enabling us to …
The much talked about OpenSocial APIs which Google is spearheading is officially announced jointly by Google and MySpace. Touted as collaborative tool that would spark and simplify web innovation, OpenSocial promises to standardize and simplify the development of social applications by offering a set of common APIs geared towards the development of “open” and “freely” …
Facebook’s Zuckerberg must be laughing right now as he reads the latest buzz on the web about OpenSocial, a group of “other” social networks headed by no less than Google representing Orkut. Joining Google in OpenSocial are social networks LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning. The New York Times is reporting that “it learned of …
