| If You Want to Make a Fortune in Social Media, You'd Better Move Fast June 03, 2011  LinkedIn has been a public company for roughly two weeks, but its brief history on Wall Street should give the people running other social media companies a lot to think about. The biggest question to ponder is whether they should go public now -- or as soon as they can convince an investment bank to shepherd them through the process -- or wait until the business is a bit more mature. | Enterprises Ready to Shake Out Some IPv6 Bugs With Worldwide Test June 02, 2011  On June 8, major enterprises with a presence on the Internet such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Akamai and several United States government agencies will be among the organizations providing their content over both IPv4 and IPv6. The occasion: June 8 is World IPv6 Day. IPv4 is the existing Internet protocol; IPv6 is its successor |
Linux's 'Killer Feature': Impossible to Choose Just One June 02, 2011  Well, June has arrived for another year, and that means the dog days of summer can't be far behind. Scorching temperatures have already begun to beat down upon parts of the Linux blogosphere, in fact, which may be why there's nary a barstool to be found down at the seedy but well air-conditioned Punchy Penguin Saloon, where Linux Girl plans to stay until, oh, say, October or so. | Something Shiny Might Be Hiding Behind Apple's iCloud June 02, 2011  What company can create an awesome tablet, wickedly thin notebooks, a HDTV set-top box, a leading smartphone, a music-movie-game-email-social-everything device, and deliver the operating systems to run them ... and move acres of dirt around to build a massive data center that might have the capability to deliver a leap forward in cloud computing that ties all of these things together? The answer is Apple, of course. |
So, What's the Deal With MicroSkype? May 31, 2011  Well, the Linux bloggers down at the blogosphere's Broken Windows Lounge had just barely finished chanting Skype's funeral dirge last week when word came that there might be reason to belt out another round. Sure enough, turned out Skype has decided to cut its ties with the free and open source Asterisk telephony system. | Gmail Gives Power to the People Widget May 27, 2011  Google has introduced a new tool to the social networking world using one of its strong suits: Gmail. In the next couple weeks, Google will debut a feature for Gmail called the "People Widget." The widget will appear to the right of messages and display information about contacts, including recent messages, shared documents, calendar events, statuses and, perhaps most striking, photos. |
What It Will Take to Create a Social Supply Chain May 27, 2011  I have a love-hate relationship with social media. I love platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn that let me keep up with people I truly value as friends and colleagues, even as we move on to new stages in our lives. I hate social media's potential for baring intimate details of your life with people you never really cared for, or never even met. | Twitter Puts a Power Hitter in Its Lineup With TweetDeck Buy May 25, 2011  After much rumor and speculation, Twitter and TweetDeck announced what many had already concluded: the popular third-party client has been acquired by Twitter. The terms of the deal were undisclosed but various news reports put it between $40 million and $50 million. Of perhaps greater interest, at least to its users, are Twitter's plans for Tweetdeck. Little has been said beyond the two companies' blog post on the acquisition. |
Zynga Could Find Green Pastures With Reported IPO Plans May 25, 2011  Social media game maker Zynga is reading itself to file for an initial public offering, according to a report in All Things Digital. The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission could come as soon as this week, or next week at the latest, according to the report's sources. The rumor mill is running hot for social media IPOs. | Facebook Wants to Hook 'Em Young May 24, 2011  Facebook hopes to one day be permitted to draw young children into the Facebook fold. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently suggested altering legal restrictions that prevent children younger than 13 from signing up for a Facebook account. Currently, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, a federal law passed in 1998, mandates that 13 is the minimum age at which a child may sign up for accounts on sites like Facebook. |
Toyota's Got a Friend in Salesforce.com May 24, 2011  Salesforce.com is participating in a social media project with Toyota Motor, in what could launch the CRM company into an entirely new industry -- telematics. Or not. The agreement between Salesforce.com and Toyota to collaborate on this offering, called "Toyota Friend," is still very much in its early days. | Firefox 5: Track Me, Just Don't Track Me May 23, 2011  The Mozilla Foundation launched a beta version of its fifth edition of the Firefox Web browser Monday -- just eight weeks after it rolled out Firefox 4. This includes a mobile version for Android as well as versions for Windows, Mac and Linux desktops. Desktop and mobile versions have a Do Not Track privacy feature. |
When FOSS Became Mainstream May 23, 2011  With so much turbulence going on in the FOSS world these days -- let's not even mention the "U" word this week, shall we? -- it's always nice when a straightforward and unambiguous piece of good news comes along. That, fortunately, was just what happened last week, when North Bridge Venture Partners announced the results of its annual survey on the future of open source. | With No TWIT or FABOO in Sight, Wall Street Gorges on LNKD May 21, 2011  Rivers of drool run down Wall Street every time a plausible rumor about a Twitter or Facebook IPO comes around. It still hasn't happened -- both are still private companies -- but it's been a topic of conversation for years, and it speaks to investors' hunger to pump money into the world's top social networking sites. |
LinkedIn IPO Paints Rosy Picture for Other Social Nets May 20, 2011  LinkedIn's doubled stock price after its IPO on Thursday has many wondering if this could be the start of another tech bubble. LinkedIn initially offered 7.84 million shares at $45 each. Within minutes, the shares doubled in price and eventually peaked at $122.70 each. The price lingered around $100 on Friday. LinkedIn reportedly has the highest price-revenue ratio of any stock anywhere. | Choosy Users May Ditch Facebook for Smaller Social Networks May 20, 2011  With more than 600 million members and counting, Facebook is the world's largest social networking community. Lately, however, a lot of people have concluded that this community is too large for their tastes. That has created an opportunity for a number of startups that are promising users a much more meaningful -- or at the very least more private -- social networking experience. |
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