In a partnership that actually makes sense Linkedin will allow status updates to be pushed out to your Twitter account and/or pull your tweets into your professional profile. You will have privacy and broadcast options obviously as the two services differ a bit in target audience. Linkedin remains the professional service of choice and twitter [...]

Twitter the social messaging service is close to raising a $100 million from as many as seven investors. The Wall Street Journal reported today with people familiar with the matter. Private equity firm Insight Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Institutional Venture Partners and mutual fund T. Rowe Price (if you can believe it). The twitter project [...]

Google Wave Download is almost here. Why should you care about Google Wave? Google Wave is a new communication and collaboration tool on the web, coming out later this year.
So the question is what is a wave? According to Google it’s the following:

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work [...]

Facebook announces the “Facebook Open Platform” for developers on the anniversary of its’ platform launch.
The facebook developer blog stated:
It’s been quite a year, with over 24,000 applications built on the platform and over 400,000 developers building new social experiences. We see about 140 applications added to our directory per day, and nearly all of [...]

Crowd sourcing startup Cambrian House is headed to the deadpool. The company had a bold concept of letting web users submit ideas and rally around the viable ones. The crowd would get a piece of profits as the idea turned into startup success. A significant problem the business ran into was the following:
A [...]

Scoutle a new dutch startup launched earlier this month with an interesting take on how to make automated social networking connections for websites and bloggers. In their words:
Your Scout is your personal webcrawler. He will walk over the Internet and will meet other Scouts. To help your Scout walk, give him some space so [...]

Google’s Friend connect has launched and gives web site owners the ability to add social features (within an iframe) to their existing websites. The code is a a cut and paste scenario and is not much more difficult then pasting adsense code.

I have to hand it to Google, they continue to create feature rich [...]

Techdirt poses an interesting counter argument to the typical rocket growth conversations among social networks lately, pointing out coincidences like Bill Gates killing his Facebook page on the heels of Microsoft’s recent $240 million FB investment. Techdirt also discusses the current declining growth trend among early adopters in the social networking space including my favorite, [...]

Check out the the Facebook interview on 60 minutes last night with founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Mark is still writing code and living in a 1-bedroom apartment with the mattress on the floor. Gotta love it.

Imo.im is an instant message social aggregator that turns your social network friends (Facebook, Myspace) into IM friends. This will allow instant messaging to occur through Imo.im instead of through a single IM service like AIM, Yahoo Messenger and Gtalk. VentureBeat makes an interesting case of a possibly bigger trend:
if services that pair social network [...]