Hot: Nokia to Acquire Social-Activity Service Provider Plazes

Nokia has purchased Plazes, a social networking provider based in Berlin. From the release:
Nokia and Plazes today announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of Plazes, a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. Plazes provides a context-aware social-activity service that people can use to plan, record, [...]

LinkedIn, Let’s open up!

The latest Nielsen data has some interesting insights on social media traffic. The most noticeable of these is that LinkedIn has grown 361% YoY.

The major social media sites are all opening up their platforms to 3rd party Application devs. When would LinkedIn open up?
“The numbers also reveal that business social network LinkedIn, which may or [...]

AOL completes acquisition of Bebo

AOL announced yesterday, that it has completed its acquisition of Bebo, a global social media network that will form the centerpiece of AOL’s newly created People Networks business unit. Bebo’s CEO Joanna Shields will serve as Executive Vice President of AOL and President of People Networks, which combines Bebo, AIM, ICQ and AOL’s other community [...]

Facebook’s CTO Adam D’Angelo to Leave

The word got out, and now it is confirmed. CTO Adam D’Angelo to Leave Facebook. D’Angelo wrote a letter to Facebook staff on Friday about the move. He said he wanted a break. But, according to sources close to the company, D’Angelo felt his responsibilities no longer fit well with his skills and interests. There [...]

FLurry of Data Interoperability announcements…

TechCrunch has an interesting post that Google is going to launch a product called “Friend Connect” on Monday. MySpace launched Data Availability on Thursday, and yesterday Facebook Connect.
Why this flurry of activity in opening up APIs for 3rd party apps? All these initiatives will allow securely sending personal profile data, including friend lists, presence/status information, [...]

Review: Yoono: Social Life aggregator

In this social networking tools clutter, it is a pain to sift through the information that you really “may” care for. A few weeks back, I was ranting off on why I will not use twitter. And then I may feel a lot older when I get into the FB or Myspace forums. LinkedIn still [...]

Identity theft on Facebook: Rogue FB App, Back Once More

In January, everything went a little crazy because of a Facebook application that (if you believed the hype) force installed Zango, hijacked your PC, set fire to your house, killed your pets…..well, you get the idea. In actual fact, the truth of the matter was a little more convoluted. All I could see was that [...]

Web 2.0 Expo 2008 Keynote: Edwin Aoki talks on open AIM

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Edwin Aoki is a Technology Fellow at AOL. Holding a joint degree in Computer Science and Sociology from Harvard College, Edwin believes strongly in the ability of technology to bring people closer together and to make our lives easier. He’s worked at Apple Computer, Go Corporation, and Intuit before [...]

How to watch Web Search Trends

The search engines have become an integrated part of our lives. Each and every day billions of searches are made all over the world, reflecting stories of work and leisure, strife and passion, and the interests of millions of Internet searchers….

AOL To Unveil Open Voice APIs

AOL plans to roll out open voice APIs today for developers and device makers to integrate the company’s AIM Call Out service into the hardware and software used to make phone calls over the Internet