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Facebook Finds a Friend in Google Rivalry
Twitter It!By: Douglas MacMillan
After failing to acquire Twitter last fall, Facebook went shopping for what may be the next best thing.
On Aug. 10, Facebook said it had acquired FriendFeed, the Mountain View (Calif.) social aggregation service founded by Google (GOOG) alumni Bret Taylor and Jim Norris in 2008. The deal, which The Wall Street [...]
2 key e-mail tips from Smart Brief
Twitter It!By: Merritt Colaizzi
After Stephanie Miller’s recent guest post about optimizing the deliverability of e-mail marketing messages, we received several requests for more information about e-mail marketing best practices. With 10 years of e-mail marketing experience under our belt, we’ve learned a few things. Now it’s time for us to share with you.
The golden rule: [...]
Breakfast Can Wait. The Day’s First Stop Is Online.
Twitter It!By: The New York Times/ Brad Stone
Karl and Dorsey Gude of East Lansing, Mich., can remember simpler mornings, not too long ago. They sat together and chatted as they ate breakfast. They read the newspaper and competed only with the television for the attention of their two teenage sons.
That was so last century. [...]
Buildbrands offers startups high quality branding for the domain
Twitter It!By: Basheera Khan
Every now and again, you come across a service that promises to disrupt and change the entrepreneurial landscape for good. Buildabrand (@buildabrand) could do just that. The service provides high quality “strategically correct” branding for your startup for about the same price as domain registration, effectively bypassing what is a traditionally expensive and [...]
Wall Street Journal Creating New “LinkedIn Killer” Called WSJ Connect
Twitter It!By: Michael Arrington
The Wall Street Journal has long envied the success of professional social network LinkedIn and its 15 million or so monthly visitors (WSJ.com has just a third of that). In late 2008 they launched WSJ Community, a social network bolted onto the main WSJ site. That community is a ghost town – [...]