Posted on November 22, 2007 by John Breslin
(Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I was attending some conferences for the past two weeks, and I will post links to my reports soon.)
As originally rumoured on Scobleizer and announced on TechCrunch recently, Loic Le Meur’s newest startup called “Seesmic” is a microvlogging service in the style of sites like Twitter [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2007 by John Breslin
There has been some blog comment ‘promotional marketing’ going on for a new directory specifically for Web 2.0 sites called “Think Web 2.0″ (due to the language used on the site, I believe it may be from France, but the WHOIS shows a private registration).
The site allows users to submit sites to the directory, [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2007 by John Breslin
Via Computerworld, I’ve been reading up on a forthcoming social semantic website called Baagz. As presented recently at DEMOfall, Baagz is a new service from French company Exalead that aims to bring together semantic search and social networking.
How does it work? Users gather their interests into a bag (called a Baag, hence [...]
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Posted on September 14, 2007 by John Breslin
French site “Skyrock Network” has lived up to its name and held onto its place at the number one spot in France’s list of top social networking sites, based on recent statistics from ComScore gathered since the start of 2007.
The site, which currently has over 9 million total unique visitors a month, has had [...]
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