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0 Freewebs Updated Competitors

Freewebs is a web publishing platform that lets users make fully functioning sites complete with photo and video galleries, blogs, forums, calendars,...

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0 Animoto Makes A Perfect Product Perfecter

I've admitted it before: I have a crush on Animoto. The service does one thing really, really well. It turns photos into slideshows, with music,...

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0 What’s Your Favorite Social Networking Application?

This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.

While social networking applications...

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0 What’s Your Favorite Widget?

This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.

Widgets are officially everywhere....

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1 RockYou Spits in Recession’s Face, Secures $17 Million in Funding

We know that the looming recession doesn’t mean that all funding will immediately stop, but amidst the waves of layoffs and cautionary e-mails sent by...

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0 Plug and Play: Social Power Outlets

The more things change…the more they stay the same.

Two and a half years ago, Mashable’s key advice for building a startup was to plug into other...

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0 Moblyng Releases Cross-Platform Slideshow App for the iPhone

Moblyng, one of the leaders of mobile social media, has announced the release of its slideshow application for the Apple iPhone. This cross-platform...

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0 Widget Arms Race: Gigya Takes the Worldwide Lead

Widget platform Clearspring turned some heads last month when it said that it would have reach equivalent to the “7th largest web property” following...

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0 Slideshows 2.0

When it comes to presentations, typical slideshows have gotten a bad reputation for being dull and dry. That doesn't necessarily have to be the case....

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0 Facebook Applications Now Portable to Friendster’s Developer Platform

Friendster might not be the first name in social networking in the US, but in Asia it’s the dominant player in many countries, with a userbase...

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0 RockYou diving deeper into social games [Widgets]

Slide and RockYou, the two largest developers of Facebook apps, have long had a serious rivalry over the most frivolous Web software. But the two may...

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0 Imeem Retools as MySpace Music Looms

As the first website to offer free, full-track streaming music from all four major record labels, Imeem has quietly been able to grow into one of the...

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0 Max Levchin gives Slide a new business model, again [Online Advertising]

Max Levchin is onto his third business plan for Slide. Levchin's startup just signed a deal with content distributors Time Warner, Warner Bros., CBS,...

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0 WebSketch Mashes Web Design and Widgets Onto One Page (The Startup Review)

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WebSketch is an online service where average people express themselves in ways possible today only for...

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0 Developer Analytics: Facebook game Mob Wars making $22,000 a day

There’s a Facebook game pulling in $22,000 a day and it’s not an application from RockYou or Slide. It’s an independently developed game called Mob...

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0 Ad standards start to work for online video

Is social media next?

For a long time I’ve been calling for standards in social media advertising. Today if an advertiser wants to make a social...

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0 Facebook widgetmaker RockYou coming to New York [Rumormonger]

Sequoia-backed RockYou, the second-largest widgetmaker on Facebook, is considering plans to staff a New York office with 2-5 ad salespeople — copying...

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0 Roxio Online Provides Family-Oriented Slide Show Creation and Sharing

Photo sharing service Roxio is launching a new slide show creation tool that operates as a Web-based option for making more professional-looking...

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0 gogogog

93': That’s a dig at other gaming startups. Zynga specializes in casual games you can play with your friends on social networks. Some of its...

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0 Widgetmaker: How not to get your app suspended from Facebook [Developers, Developers, Developers]

Over the past month, Facebook has shown itself to have a quicker trigger when it comes to banning applications from its site for rule violations. It's...

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0 Slide shows off the wealth at third anniversary [Party Report]

Attention, rival Facebook-application developers: Slide has money in the bank, and your widget startup doesn't. Such was the unsubtle message of...

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3 Source: VC for Facebook widgetmakers is drying up [Facebook Apps]

They can't say they didn't have it coming. But widgetmakers are angry all the same about Facebook's decision to clone Slide's Top Friends application...

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0 The Valley's Facebook frenzy fades [Facebook Apps]

They can't say they didn't have it coming. But widgetmakers are angry all the same about Facebook's decision to clone Slide's Top Friends application...

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1 RockYou spends around $3 million on two new profile decorators [Facebook Apps]

Widgetmaker RockYou acquired Pieces of Flair and Speed Racing, applications which, according to Facebook's directory, see about 432,042 and 190,441...

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0 Tapulous Wants To Be The RockYou Of Apple’s App Store

Despite facing competition from thousands of other developers, Slide and RockYou have managed to establish themselves as powerhouses on Facebook’s...

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2 Did Slide get rival RockYou's Facebook apps punished? [Rumormonger]

Traffic to RockYou's popular Facebook widget Super Wall declined from 2.1 million to 600,000 daily users over the last few days, as Facebook blocked...

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0 Slide's Top Friends back on Facebook after third-party privacy audit [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]

Facebook's third-most popular widget, Slide's Top Friends, is back after Facebook suspended it on June 26. (The offense: displaying Top Friends' users...

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0 Facebook Continues War On App Developers. This Week: Super Wall

Facebook is continuing its war on Facebook apps that push the limits on acceptable user interaction. Last week it was Slide’s Top Friends App, which...

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2 A good way to tell RockYou you don't want to work there [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

Wantrepreneur Kyle Brady got a call from a recruiter the other day, he writes on his blog. The recruiter wanted Brady to take a job with widgetmaker...

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0 Facebook suspends Max Levchin's Slide over security loophole [Developers, Developers, Developers]

Until last night, Top Friends by Slide was Facebook's third most popular widget, judging by daily active users and installations. Today, Top Friends...

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0 72Photos Offers a New, Sleek Alternative to Flickr

Yesterday, the unfortunate but none-too-surprising news about the departure of Flickr's co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield broke out...

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3 $35 million round wasn't enough for RockYou [Venture Capital]

Online widgetmaker RockYou is still looking for another $5 million to $15 million in funding, even after it took $35 million last week, at a $300...

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5 Report: RockYou looks at raising another round, because it can

RockYou. Along with Slide, it’s one of the iconic companies in the recent boomlet of social networking applications — fancy widgets that let third...

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0 Widgetbucks Pockets $10 Million in Series B Funding

It’s been quite a busy week for widget companies. RockYou kicked things off by announcing its $35 million Series C round on Monday. KickApps and...

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0 Slide Got Theirs, Now RockYou Gets Some Too

Back in January Slide pulled off a whopper of a financing for an effectively pre-revenue startup: $50 million, valuing the company at a cool half...

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0 Slide Now Working More For Quality Than Quantity On Facebook

Slide has already done plenty of horizontal on Facebook. Now it’s going more the way of vertical. Or at least more so than it has over the past few...

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4 Photo-music video creator Animoto raises round from Amazon

Animoto, a company that lets you create music videos out of your photos albums, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Amazon.com. New...

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3 Photobucket Plays Catch Up To Flickr, Public API Released

Photobucket, acquired by Fox Interactive Media in May 2007 for $300 million, is releasing their API to the public today and will allow third party...

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6 Buddy Media launches another “social media” ad network, raises $6.5M

Buddy Media is a small player in the game of trying to build businesses on Facebook’s developer platform, and on other social network platforms, but...

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0 Podcast: A Conversation with Brightcove’s Adam Berrey

Brightcove today announced a partnership with a bunch of new content partners - Bebo, Meebo, RockYou, Slide and Veoh. Besides making a pretty...

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2 Frengo Launches Mobile Open Social Toolkit

Mobile social networking company Frengo has released a toolkit for development of Open Social and Facebook applications on mobile phones. The Open...

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0 Picking a Platform: 5 Issues to Consider

A month ago, ReadWriteWeb writer Marshall Kirkpatrick utilized his huge network of Twitter followers to facilitate a discussion about APIs and...

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0 Graphing Social Patterns Recap

O'Reilly's
Graphing Social
Patterns conference, which was held this week in San Diego, brought together key people who are shaping the newly
born...

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3 MixerCast Raises $6 Million

MixerCast, a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of social media marketing tools, has raised $6 million in Series B funding. Intel Capital led the round,...

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