Foursquare CEO on Splitting Its App: 'At First, We Thought It Was Crazy'
Dennis Crowley, co-founder and CEO of social network Foursquare, gestures during a plenary session of LeWeb 11 event in Saint-Denis, suburbs of Paris, on December 7, 2011. Credit: Eric Piermont/AFP Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley spoke on stage for the first time since the company's major announcement that it will split the app into two. "At first, we thought it was crazy to do this,
Foursquare's New Swarm App Is Here
Foursquare's new app called Swarm has arrived, as promised. The app went live in the iOS App Store and Google Play on Thursday. Foursquare announced in early May that it would split its experience into two apps. Swarm is intended to be a convenient way to keep up with what your friends are doing, letting you check into venues, just like the Foursquare app, but it also lets you automatically share
Why Targeted Ads Must Account for Changing Consumer Context
Millions of parents have bought Hannah Montana albums online for their young daughters and nieces. Marketers seized the opportunity to launch ads for Hannah lunchboxes and accessories -- which unfortunately appear on adult profiles. And guess what? The Bieber ads are next. For adults whose tastes trend more toward U2 and Smashing Pumpkins, ads that offer deals focused on teen idols miss the mark c
Bitly Poaches Top Exec From AOL's Patch as CEO
Four months after Bit.ly announced the resignation of CEO Peter Stern, the company has finally revealed a replacement: Mark Josephson. Josephson currently serves as the head of revenue and marketing at Patch, AOL's struggling network of local news websites, where he has worked for more than two years. Josephson confirmed to Mashable that he put in his resignation at AOL within the last 30 days and
Branch Brings Potluck's Stress-Free Social Network to iPhone
Branch, a startup backed by two of Twitter's cofounders, introduced a new social network last month called Potluck that promised to take much of the anxiety out of sharing things online by focusing on links rather than Likes or retweets. Now, Branch is bringing its stress-free social network to mobile with the launch on Wednesday of Potluck for iPhone. "We built Potluck and designed Potluck and co
Friendster Founder Launches News Service Based on Social Networks
Friendster Founder Launches News Service Based on Social Networks Jonathan Abrams, founder of Friendster, credited as being the first social network to hit the Web in 2002, has released a new social-news service. Abrams’ new startup, called Nuzzel, aggregates news your friends have shared across social networks. It compiles them into categories, and an additional section called “news you may have
Wavii Confirms Google Acquisition
One month after Yahoo made headlines by announcing its acquisition of Summly, a startup that uses algorithms and natural-language processing to serve short summaries of articles, Google has snatched up Wavii, a Seattle-based startup that also gathers and processes online data into summarized bits. (Here's an example.) The acquisition, which was reported by multiple outlets earlier this week, was c
Betaworks' Vision For the Future of Online News
One of the most talked about companies for online news right now isn't a journalism outlet or a media conglomerate, but rather a small startup incubator and investor located in the heart of Manhattan's meatpacking district. Betaworks, which describes itself as "a company that builds companies," has been in the news a lot lately for acquiring and developing media properties. In July, Betaworks boug
60% of Twitter Users Quit Within the First Month
But like many social networks, it seems many people lose steam with the service. Stat tracking firm Nielsen reports today that a full 60% of users who sign up fail to return the following month. And in the 12 months "pre-Oprah", retention rates were even lower: only 30% returned the next month. That's good news, to some degree: retention rates have increased over time. But how does Twitter's reten
Twitter vs. Instagram: The Showdown in an Infographic
Twitter vs. Instagram: The Showdown in an Infographic It's been three months since Instagram killed support for Twitter cards, yet we still regularly hear complaints about the newfound hassle in tweeting your 'grams: "Tragic," the chorus goes. "So lame." Until early December, Twitter users could view Instagram photos within Twitter itself thanks to the microblogging network's media-friendly expand
R.I.P. Color App
Color, the much-hyped startup that raised a whopping $41 million in a first round of funding, is shutting down its flagship video-sharing app just a year after re-launching it, according to VentureBeat. The company's shareholders and board reportedly voted to shut down Color last week following the news that Co-founder and CEO Bill Nguyen had stepped away from his day-to-day duties. "Color is goin
Why Social Networks Won't Kill the Blog
In the last year, users have turned to social sharing platforms like Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram to share bite-sized snacks of content, while relying on blogs to enable longer forms of communication and self-expression. In one sense, it’s become the equivalent of a social media full meal. But, as if on cue, online Cassandras meet this growth in social sites with various visions of social medi
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