One More New York Acqhire for Facebook: Zenbe
If you're a big Internet company in a hurry, you can go out and hire engineers one by one. Or you can just buy their start-up. That's one of Facebook's favorite tactics, and it did it again earlier this year by buying Zenbe, a small email company that Facebook used to build its "don't call...
Mark Zuckerberg Really, Really Wanted to Work With Sam Lessin
Facebook paid around $20 million for Drop.io, just so it could shut down the service and hire founder Sam Lessin--a deal that's not terribly unusual. What is unusual: Lessin's old Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg funded the purchase with precious Facebook shares.
Telling Friends Where You Are (or Not)
Giving people more choices in revealing their locations with their cellphones is being popularized by the Foursquare service.
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Lost, Twitter and the Tragedy of the Commons: A Semi-Modest Proposal
Does this sound familiar? I love watching "Lost," though it takes me a day or two to get to it. But I can't take a day or two away from Twitter. Something's got to give.
A Father and Son Team That Founds Web Start-Ups Wants to Finance Them, Too: Ken and Ben Lerer Get Their Own Fund
Meet another set of investors funding New York-based Web start-ups: Lerer Media Ventures, run by Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer and his son, Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer. Their backers include familiar names like Ron Conway and Arianna Huffington.
Hot Potato Is Ready to Eat: Do Twitter, Facebook Users Want Another Real-Time Chatter Service?
Last month I told you about Hot Potato, one of the buzziest start-ups in the very buzzy "real time" sector. Now you can check out the service yourself. Or at least you can get a glimpse of it in this video.
One to Watch: Hot Potato
Some MLB.com alums have put together a company called Hot Potato to host real-time social conversations around events. Think Facebook + CNN and their ilk, but with curation so that conversations aren’t just full-bore gushes of comments.We’d noticed the startup when CEO Justin Schaffer was quoted in a recent Ooyala press release about live-streaming video....
