Archive for February, 2007

Startups Mull Build-or-Sell Options 

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

No startup is stirring more takeover chatter than Facebook, which began as a site exclusively for college students before opening up to high school students in 2005 and finally accepting all comers last fall. >>> Read more...As the polls close at 6 p.m. today, students have begun to weigh in ...

Freewebs Teams With Photobucket 

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Freewebs, http://www.freewebs.com/ the world's easiest place to create multimedia websites and blogs has joined forces with Photobucket - the online personal media company where over 35 million people create, manage and share their personal digital media. Now, Freewebs users are able to add photos, slideshows, videos, and remix videos from ...

A Majority of One

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

New York Times - contemporary teenagers live, including running ads on MySpace as well as putting up two special Web sites: aroundwilkes.com , offering virtual tours of the university, and hellowilkes.com , a social-networking site modeled after MySpace and Facebook. >>> Read more Search ...

Wi-Fi TV Seeking Equity Sale in Light of Hot Web 2.0 Market and

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

MSN MoneyCentral - Besides Facebook, other Web 2.0 startups frequently mentioned as prime takeover targets include online video site Metacafe Inc. and Photobucket Inc., which has emerged as one of the Internet's busiest destinations by hosting personal videos and >>> Read more dBusinessNews.com - Using EpicUnderground ...

MySpace race on the campaign trail

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Chicago Tribune - On John Edwards' Web site (www.johnedwards.com)there are links to social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and video giant YouTube. Click the YouTube button on Edwards' site, and you get a list of 18 videos that have, collectively, been >>> Read more CNET News ...

One year later: Katrina students reflect on U of C

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Chicago Maroon - Miller said students campaigned to bring classmates back to campus, wearing Tulane garb and creating Facebook groups proclaiming messages like You know you go to a Post-Katrina Tulane if you realize that even after almost being destroyed, you >>> ...

Startups have choice: Build or sell 

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

As values rise, video and social networking Web sites are being offered big takeover bids. >>> Read more...POINT PLEASANT, N.J. A close friend of ``American Idol'' semi-finalist Antonella Barba says that the aspiring singer is not the subject of some graphically sexual pictures purported to be of her ...

Today’s Technology Headlines

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

WTOP Radio - As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich. But the 22-year-old founder of the Internet's second largest social-networking site also could >>> Read more FOX News ...

Teens turn to MySpace when grieving for friends

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Silicon Valley - More than half of teenagers who use the Internet frequent social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, where they create elaborate profiles and personalize them with photos, music and video. It follows that the online hangouts have become as >>> Read more Sponsored ...

Dream interpretation can help the mind and body 

Monday, February 26th, 2007

When the dream starts, you're sitting in a quiet, dimly lit high- rise apartment in a big city. You're talking in a circle with your friends, who are all barefoot. Your sister, who isn't your sister at all, suddenly dies, only to be resurrected as the coming of the Judaic ...