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LinkedIn Experiences 60% User Growth; Premium Subscriptions Double

Kenna McHugh — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:49:24 +0000

LinkedIn took the time to share its Q3 financials for its second-earnings statement as a public company. It appears the professional social network experienced some substantial growth.
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New App Lets You Track Your Party Guests’ Locations In Real Time

Kenna McHugh — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:45:22 +0000

We have all been there, trying to organize a social or business event and coordinating where and when to meet up. Would real-time location-based event planning make it easier to schedule business meetings, coordinate road trips with friends, or find parents at soccer games and swim meets? If you answered yes, then you might want to look at the release of Syncuz, the first map-based messaging app for iPhone and Android.
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Report: Facebook and Twitter Slowly Replacing Email

Bilal Hameed — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:00:00 +0000

2009 saw a tremendous increase in usage of Social Media sites like Twitter and Facebook, and could easily be termed as the Year of Social Media. This growth in the usage of social and collaboration platforms has led the enterprises to seriously consider using social platforms for business collaborations, according to Mark R. Gilbert, research vice president at Gartner Research.
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Collecta Launches True Real Time Search Engine

Kristen Nicole — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:00:28 +0000

Real time search is becoming all the rage, displacing some of the hype around semantic search and catapulting services like Twitter, FriendFeed and now Facebook into new realms when it comes to accessing its content. Today, search veteran Jerry Campbell is helping to launch Collecta, a service he’s claiming to be a true real time search engine unlike anything the world has seen.

As one of the minds behind the patented process that powered Summize, the Twitter search engine that was acquired by the microblogging platform and is now Twitter search, Campbell has long-standing ideas on how search and discovery should operate on the web. He’s seen the evolution of data-sharing as it pertains to things like news within he financial industry and has learned from organizations’ necessity to reach that “aha” moment as quickly as possible. It’s that “aha” moment Collecta is trying to give you, for any topic, in a very short amount of time.
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