Liz Strauss at Successful Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
It’s Been a Great Run . . . For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life question. . . . You’ve been hearing rumors. This weekend’s financial programs and news reports have confirmed [...]
Liz Strauss at Successful Blog (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Reputation Management For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life question. . . . It’s a real-life question tonight. . . . In March, I wrote a post in response to a bad experience [...]
Dooblog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Hi Everybody, We hope you logged in to Doostang today and were pleasantly surprised by the new navigation interface that we’ve built. We’ve been putting a lot of effort into improving your experience on the site so that you can discover career opportunities and connect with people more quickly and intuitively. So what has changed? At the [...]
DealBook (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
LinkedIn, a Web site that professionals use to make contacts and trade tips, created quite a stir this week. It announced that it raised $53 million in funding, primarily from Bain Capital Ventures, implicitly valuing the four-year-old company at an impressive $1 billion. It was only the latest evidence that social networks for the more-serious [...]
moraaz.org - feed all tech! (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
LinkedIn has raised $53 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bessemer Ventures. The investment values the business social network at just over $1 billion. We reported in early May that Allen & Co was out trying to pitch LinkedIn at that valuation. It turns out the company was not actually working with [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
LinkedIn has raised $53 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bessemer Ventures. The investment values the business social network at just over $1 billion. We reported in early May that Allen & Co was out trying to pitch LinkedIn at that valuation. It turns out the company was not actually working with [...]
Unfortune (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
LinkedIn has raised $53 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bessemer Ventures. The investment values the business social network at just over $1 billion. We reported in early May that Allen & Co was out trying to pitch LinkedIn at that valuation. It turns out the company was not actually working with [...]
Dooblog (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
As you may have noticed, there have been a lot of changes to Doostang recently. Since the end of April, we’ve put up a new site, a new look, and a bunch of new features to make your career search easier. But one of the biggest changes you haven’t seen has been our [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
BURLINGAME, Calif. and LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--While there has been a litany of commentary and analysis covering online social networks in the consumer world, there has been a lack of serious
Dooblog (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Over the past few months, we’ve been collecting a lot of feedback from you, our loyal Doostang members, and working hard to turn that feedback into new features on the site. Today, we’re happy to announce two big feature updates — advanced people search and open messaging — that we [...]
Dooblog (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Dear Doostang Community, Greetings! There are big changes going on here at Doostang, and I wanted to take a moment to both introduce myself and tell you a bit more about where Doostang is headed. In March, I joined Doostang as its new CEO. I was intrigued by the opportunity for a number of reasons: the rapid [...]
EVERYTHING 2.0 (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Italic = new in this index. Related categories: ENTERPRISE 2.0, MARKETING 2.0, PRODUCTIVITY 2.0, SALES 2.0, START-UP 2.0. For earlier updates cf. INDEX 2.0. Billeo - Transaction management solution for SME & consumers (bill pay-, profile- & password assistant). View. Cofoundr - Community where you can find co-founders, build teams, and get advice on starting up a business. View. Eloqua - Execute, automate...
This is going to be BIG. (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
I subscribe to a number of different keywords using the Twitter "track" feature. Lately, I've been moving those over to Tweetscan (Isn't it only a matter of time before Twitter integrates this themselves? They should just buy Tweetscan.) One of...
Liz Strauss at Successful Blog (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
Too Secret for Me You must guess how hard I tried not to write this. I sat down, turned around, wrote several emails, found their blog and asked for help. . . . But I also think bad practice is bad practice and bad service is bad service. I don't want any more of [...]
the Constant Observer (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
So, in its ever up-to-the-trendy news reports meant to make us think about digital life, the New York Times had a whiny little piece on all those disgruntled Facebook users who can't fully delete their profiles from Facebook....Meanwhile, totally missing Ed Sussman's announcement of FastCompany going the social networking route , calling it some form of "social journalism" in order to try to monetize...
