Viewers can submit questions to James Cameron via Twitter using the hashtag #virginmobilelive. This live event and its archive will be available exclusively from the Virgin Mobile LIVE Facebook page.
CEO Jim Louderback talks about the success Revision3 had in 2010, what’s in store for 2011 and the Mark Cuban’s recent investment in the company.
Andy Signore, Lead Creative of Original Content at Break.com, talks about how he got his start in web video, how he got involved with Break Media, and what advice he would give to people trying to break into the biz.
The CEO and co-founder of ShortForm, an online entertainment site that lets users watch and curate video channels, talks about the growth and development of the site as well as ShortForm’s new social features.
One of the newest social networks on the block, Fitango wants to help you achieve your fitness and life goals. Working with experts, you can set action plans, mini-goals, and get motivated to reach your potential. We had the chance to sit down with Parinda Muley, VP of Business Development at Fitango, to discuss Fitango’s growth, its social elements, and why creating Action Plans helps people achieve their goals.
Social Media has already proven itself to be a viable platform for traditional advertising. Now, a number of companies are attempting to track and successfully manipulate the elusive viral world – and there’s no shortage of prospective clients.
We talked with former Trapster CEO Pete Tenereillo and current employee Sean Farrell about the sale of their location-based social driving application to NAVTEQ, a large digital maps company.
The Tagged social network distinguishes itself as a social network about making new friends, and has been successful in a social networking industry dominated by Facebook. Greg Tseng, co-founder and CEO, explains the source and details of their growth below.
ST) Do you have any idea how many of users use Facebook AND Tagged?
Some of our polls have indicated up to 80% overlap in active users with Facebook.
ST) Do you feel that you are an alternative to Facebook, or a complementary service?
Tagged is a complementary service. Facebook is for maintaining pre-existing relationships whereas Tagged is for discovering new relationships. Put another way, one would use Facebook to keep in touch with people they already know and use Tagged to meet new people. These are both important use cases — both are core human needs — and that’s why the two companies companies can co-exist and both do well.
ST) Congratulations on Tagged being ranked 15th in the top 100 fastest growing companies in San Francisco. Which teams at Tagged are growing fastest?
Thank you! The fastest-growing team would still have to be engineering which accounts for about half our team. Our company is very technical and analytical and we’re a small team of only ~50 full-time employees that are doing big things. We are the third-largest social network in the US, with over 100 million registered users, 5 billion monthly pageviews, and profitable for the past 3 years.
We are hiring in all areas so please send in your referrals for these jobs: http://about-tagged.com/jobs
We offer a $10,000 referral bonus for any new hire. Half paid on start date, half paid after 90 days.
ST) Do you feel that social games have played an important part in your continued growth?
Yes, our mission is to “enable anyone to meet and socialize with new people” and our three main use cases are dating, interests, and games. Playing social games is a great way to meet new people and we have a unique opportunity to create differentiated games that promote social discovery. For example, our Pets game, where you can “buy and own each other as pets,” is played by 10-15% of our daily active users and is a great way to meet new people.
ST) If all goes according to plan, what will Tagged become 2 years from now?
If all goes to plan, we’ll have realized even more of our mission. With over 2 billion people online, we have the opportunity to enable billions or even trillions of new human connections. Currently, our 100 million registered users form around 100 million new connections every month. We’re proud of this accomplishment but in two years I’d like to be enabling many more, perhaps over 1 billion new connections per month. Also, while our mission remains the same, we will evolve with new technologies and in two years I’d expect Tagged to be more real-time, available on all major mobile platforms, and possibly offer live video.
YouTube megastar Shane Dawson has put something of a sick twist on the holiday season this year with his Christmas YouTube special, ‘Santa’s Dead: A Love Story’. I talked to Shane, as well as directors The Fine Brothers, about this holly jolly video.
I had the opportunity to talk to TV and Web Personality Shira Lazar about The Partners Project, her new YouTube talk show in which she interviews YouTube partners. Read more after the jump.
