Former MySpace CMO Shawn Gold is starting up a new social media business dubbed Cocodot, which is poised for launch next September. The current website for the venture doesn't reveal much, and all we know at this point about Cocodot is that it will provide a "style-driven communication and guest management platform for people and brands to create celebrations". We didn't get that either, but apparently Gold is close to announcing several alliances with some of America's biggest consumer brands pre-launch, so our expectations are on the high side. And investors are interested, too. Full story...
Over the past 48 hours, and perhaps longer, it appears that TechCrunch is being blocked inside China.
In May 2009, we covered the launch of Fotomoto, a Web-based photo monetization service built by the eponymous startup based out of San Francisco.
So the Internet made me fat. That and all the beer. Anyway, now I'm going to depend on the Internet to make me skinny again and I think the Withings WiFi scale is just the thing to get me back in Abraham Lincoln mode.
We wrote about the power of brand buzz on social media sites yesterday, and one contributing aspect to buzz are individuals who are "influencers," similar in some ways to the trend that Malcolm Gladwell highlighted in The Tipping Point.
Back in November 2008, we covered the launch of Twilio, a startup that's akin to an Amazon Web Services for telephony apps.
Today sees the public launch of Company.com, a new social community service for small to medium-sized businesses.
It's been almost 2 years to the day when Apple released Aperture 2.0, and this morning the company announced that the third iteration of the photo editing and management software is available.
Yammer, the San Francisco startup that offers a solid enterprise-grade microsharing and realtime communications service, is expanding its executive team after successfully closing a Series B funding round to the tune of $10 million earlier this month.
Last July, we reported that the new company by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield had received a name, and was looking to hire.
Editor's note: Is Apple going to far with its restrictions on developers? Alistair Goodman thinks so and explains why in this guest post.