Windows Live Writer for Windows Mobile - Home. Interesting Quotes from Facebook/DST Investment Conference Call. As reported this morning, Facebook announced that it has just closed a $200 million investment from Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies.
We just got off the conference call discussing the investment with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, Yuri Milner, CEO of DST, Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and Alexander Tamas, Partner at DST. Here are some interesting quotes from the call. (Note: these may not all be verbatim because I was transcribing them in real time.) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg - On Facebook’s financials and whether or not Facebook “needed” the investment:
Social Media Doesn’t Drive Purchases? Google Testing More Inline Images In Web Search Results. Blogstorm has noticed that Google is showing several images within the UK search results for a search on personal development books.
This is unique in that there are 9 images under a search result’s title and above the description. Here is a screen capture, furnished by Blogstorm: In addition, it shows “17 images” in the snippet information, which indicates that Google understands that there are indeed a total of 17 images. The images on that landing page do seem significant to the rest of the page. I imagine that Google is thinking this page is more about image search than web search. Where are my people? You’ve seen those nonprofit fundraising challenges, haven’t you?
A funder or corporation puts up some funds—donation or matching grant money—and asks nonprofits and their supporters to compete for it. Maybe it’s a race of donations or votes, or perhaps memberships to a group on FaceBook. Our own Giving Challenge was an early example. Breaking: Facebook Closes $200 Million Investment from Russian I. On the heels of rumors of a possible investment this weekend, Facebook has just announced this morning that it has indeed raised a $200 million round of financing from Russian Internet investment firm Digital Sky Technologies.
DST will receive 1.96% equity stake in the company in the form of preferred stock at a valuation of $10 billion. In addition, DST plans to purchase “at least” $100 million of Facebook common stock from existing stockholders that would give current and former employees a chance to cash out some of their vested shares. DST will not get a seat on the Facebook board of directors. “This investment demonstrates Facebook’s ongoing success at creating a global network for people to share and connect,” says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “We’ve worked hard to bring more than 200 million people – 70 percent outside of the U.S. – onto Facebook to share with friends, family and co-workers.
DST is a large Internet holding company in Russia and eastern Europe. The Golden Rule of Online Marketing — Copyblogger. 10 Things You Don’t Need to Do In the Clouds SmoothSp. Sometimes a breakthrough paradigm shift eliminates the need for all kinds of things. Word processors and laser printers killed a lot of other things that were once thriving including typewriters, liquid paper, and Linotype machines. So it is with the Cloud. When I chat with my Director of Operations at Helpstream, we’re always chuckling about how much better life is in the Amazon Cloud for our company.
As I read through unread blog posts with Google Reader, I’m going to note 10 things we don’t need to worry about since we’re in the Cloud: 1. Memorial Day, 2009. Today is observed as Memorial Day in the United States, a day for remembering the men and women of our armed services who died while at war.
Memorial Day weekend has also become the unofficial kickoff to Summer, complete with backyard barbecues, parades and family getaways. Collected here are a handful of photographs for remembrance, acknowledging some of the men and women who have passed in conflicts from the U.S. Civil War through Iraq and Afghanistan today. (22 photos total) Ning: The future of online social networking? (CNN) -- Whether you're into baseball or backgammon, Harry Potter or heavy metal, Ning has an online network for you.
Gina Bianchini, CEO of Ning, says her site brings together people with common interest and passions. A fast-growing, free Web site launched two years ago, Ning lets members custom build their own social-networking platforms based around their passions and pastimes. As Facebook and MySpace connect people to friends and family, Ning gathers users around common interests. Crazy but true: Twitter to get its own TV Show (updated) - The N.
Very first REAL (tiny) images of the NEW iPhone 3.0 - The Next W. Looks closely at the following image.
The iPhone1,1 is the very first iPhone. Mind Hacks: On the information alarmageddon. New York Magazine has an article arguing that the concerns about digital technology drastically affecting our minds are just hype.
I really wanted to like it but it’s just another poorly researched piece on the psychology of digital technology. Research has shown that distraction can improve exactly the sorts of skills that the digital doomsayers say will be broken by the high-tech world, but I’ve never seen it mentioned in any of the recent high-profile articles on the predicted digital meltdown. In fact, there is a fairly sizeable scientific literature on how interruption affects the ability to complete a task, and instant messaging has been specifically studied. This is quite amazing because not only was the ‘study’ in question not an actual scientific study, it was PR stunt for Hewlett Packard, this isn’t even an accurate description of it (users were interrupted with email during an IQ test and scored worse, big surprise). Although not as well studied, it seems this is unlikely. Seth's Blog: When the writer becomes the publisher.
Walt Whitman and Ben Franklin were both printers who became writers... one would imagine they did this because it was cheaper to write your own stuff than hiring someone, and having words to print and sell is good business if you’re a printer.
The joke as we know it was unknown before the Civil War (so says Bob Mankoff [Jason disagrees and points us to this article]). Sure, there were funny stories, but not jokes with punchlines. We don't know who wrote the first joke, but by 1920, there were books of thousands of jokes. What shifted? You could get paid for writing jokes. Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists Bl. Megan Taylor is a freelance journalist, web developer and multimedia producer based in New York City.
My Story One year ago I started the adventure they call life after college. I had the rest of my life (a.k.a. the next six months) planned out with confidence: a two-week photography class in Berlin, Germany was to be followed by an internship at The Miami Herald . Things went swimmingly, until I realized that the end date of my internship was nearing and somehow I didn’t have anything else lined up.
Job applications and interviews had gone nowhere, and I was done with being picky. One thing led to another, and a fellow JWJ (Journalist Without a Job) and I decided that New York City would be the perfect place for two multi-talented news addicts to find work. Here I am, nine months later in New York. Microsoft to spend millions to tout new search engine - TechFlas.
Goldbase.be is a Facebook Scam: DO NOT Visit [WARNING] It seems there's no end to the Facebook spam and phishing attacks. Today my Facebook inbox shows there's another attack underway that's suckering even some of the most tech savvy users: I'm receiving Facebook mails with links to ".be" sites which are obviously nefarious. The subject line of the mails is "Look at This". If you receive such a mail, DO NOT click links to the following sites: Aerial Virtual tour of New York. Social Media - What Needs To Be In The Cloud? I had an interesting email discussion yesterday with a friend. Seth's Blog: On becoming a household name.
The guidance office at the high school has a big poster for Wellesley College hanging by the door. It's just a picture of a building, no features, no benefits, no text at all. Kids apply to schools (a quarter of a million dollar investment) for crazy reasons. Twitter's Real-Time Search Hits Pause. Six Hours And Counti. Darn it Twitter. Welcome To Our Site. Google vs. the Real-Time Web. Irregular Enterprise mobile edition. Outlook Sender's Time Zone - free plugin for Outlook 2007/2. Your Weakest Links Might Just Become Your Strongest Chain.
Make Your Google Analytics Data Public. It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) — Copy. Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits. Which Celebs Are the Most Engaging on Facebook? How IT Professionals Can Get B2B Word Of Mouth. OpenID’s Tipping Point. Twitter's Search Engine Is Very, Very, Broken - louisgray.c. How OpenSocial v0.9 streamlines your app. Payment Industry Perspectives: Q&A with AdParlor CEO Hussein. Will Gmail Get a Magic Inbox that Can Analyze Your Social Graph. Spam and sorting the ‘tweet from the chaff’ - TweetDeck's p. Even Social Search Needs an Algorithm: Arguing Against Data Entr. Listening On Twitter. 85 Reasons Why Website Designers/Developers Keep SEOs in Busines.
Faster is better on Google Suggest. Google Launches Maps Data API - O'Reilly Radar. Why People Don’t Follow Back on Twitter.