Rumor has it that Zynga, Inc., the biggest maker of social games on Facebook, is preparing to file their Initial Public Offering (IPO) with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A filing that could come as early as the end of this month. Zynga has met with reps from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. [...]
Still not where you want to be in your career? Maybe your name is to blame. LinkedIn has just revealed the most common CEO names, as well as other popular names in various fields. Of the more than 100 million users on the site, the most common names of male and female CEOs are Peter [...]
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If you haven’t made your way over to LinkedIn yet today, you might want to take a look. After logging into the business-oriented, social networking site, be sure to click on “People You May Know”. Among today’s suggestions are famous historical figures such as Sherlock Holmes (listed as “Detective at 221B Baker Street”) and Robin [...]
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Peter Kazanjy is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur – and he’s created something that could change the social networking landscape forever. His new Unvarnished website is being dubbed “Yelp for people.” In short, it is a “reputation marketplace” where people can post anonymous reviews about anyone they want. Kazanjy, 30, maintains that reviewing people, as opposed [...]
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Twitter is still on a tear! comScore has released new figures showing that Twitter’s global unique visitors figure in April, 2009 was an astounding 32 million, up from 19 million the month before. To put it another way, Twitter has just blown past Digg (23 million), LinkedIn (16 million), and the NYTimes.com (17.5 million) in [...]
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Google has taken a huge step in helping you control what comes up when people search for you by including your Google Profile in its search results. Don’t have a Google Profile? No problem. Just Google the word “me”, seriously, and you’ll see an option right at the top of the results that will take [...]
Image via CrunchBase LinkedIn Groups is finally adding some turbo-charged features that give group administrators more marketing power. Group managers can now send an e-mail announcement to all group members. LinkedIn says they added this “in response to overwhelming demand from group managers”. All e-mails are sent from within your Group and LinkedIn will no [...]
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Image via CrunchBase LinkedIn is about to launch a site dedicated to the German market. This is significant because local social network Xing currently has a stronghold on that territory. Can LinkedIn conquer the Germans? It’s had lots of success with sites focused on other European countries like Spain & France in 2008. It already [...]
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LinkedIn seems to be having its share of difficulties today. The popular professional networking site has been going up and down all day long, at one point displaying an ‘Oops’ page for about 55 minutes… LinkedIn is usually very reliable. As of yet, there is nothing posted on their blog, which is still up. Twitter [...]
Image via CrunchBase, source unknown LinkedIn underwent a major internal overhaul today as far as leadership is concerned. In a series of moves that is only slightly less complicated than the so-and-so begat so-and-so section of the book of Genesis, the entire core of the company seems to have changed. Founder Reid “Dustin” Hoffman has [...]
If you are like me and are looking for a better way to get organized, you are going to love Digsby. I just downloaded this little app and took it for a test spin. It’s free…and it is powerful. So what is it? Simply put, Digsby lets you combine ALL of your e-mail notifications, instant [...]
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REMINDER: Only 2 more days until Monty’s Trick or Treat (10/31/08). It’s going to be 100% free. LinkedIn, the popular business networking website, has launched InApps, its new OpenSocial-based application platform. InApps will be similar to the platforms found on networks like MySpace and Facebook, minus the “crap apps” that hamper those popular networks. What [...]
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