Archive for December, 2009

Gowalla – Location-based Social Network, Raises $8.4 Million in a Venture Capital

December 11th, 2009 Social Guy

Gowalla

Gowalla, a location-based social networking service, raises Series B funding round totaling $8.4 million. Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Greylock Partners led the round. The capital infusion will be used to strengthen growth efforts and further enhance Gowalla’s development capability. With this latest funding, Gowalla has now raised more than $10 million since it was founded in 2007.

Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Co-Founder and Executive Chairman and Partner at Greylock, will join Gowalla as a board observer. New investors joining this round include: Shasta Ventures, Maples Investments, Ron Conway, Kevin Rose, Gary Vaynerchuk, Shervin Pishevar, Jason Calacanis and Chris Sacca. Existing investors Alsop-Louie Partners and Founders Fund also participated in the round. (more…)

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@Nimbuzz Adds #Twitter – Launches World First Pop-Up Notifications on Symbian

December 11th, 2009 Social Guy

NIMBUZZ

Nimbuzz, the award-winning new-generation mobile operator & social network aggregator, launched its Symbian 2.2 client packed with new features including a world first for Symbian handsets, pop up notifications, and full Twitter functionality.

From today, Nimbuzz users on Symbian can enjoy integration with the world’s fastest-growing social network, as Nimbuzz incorporates a feature-rich Twitter client that includes Timelines, Direct Messaging, Searches, Trends and Profiles, and outperforms standalone Twitter applications.

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8 Easy Facebook Etiquette Tips for the Rest of Us

December 10th, 2009 Guest Authors

8 Easy Facebook Etiquette Tips

Most of us are on Facebook (FB) these days and I bet there’s a good chance we weren’t even using it last year. A friend invited you and now you’re engrossed. Or maybe you’re on FB, but you’re not sure if you’re using it right. Somehow I amassed 670 friends and I’m still learning as I go.

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8coupons.com – Aggregate Mobile Coupons and Deals Near You

December 9th, 2009 Social Guy

8coupons

8coupons.com, find mobile coupons and deals in your neighborhood is evolving and growing. Once only known in New York City for Mobile Coupons and OCHO LOCO! promotions, 8coupons has improved into a one-stop shop for locating all of your favorite deals, regardless of where you live. With a loaded database of over 60,000 mobile coupons and deals throughout the country, consumers can now find all their money-saving information in one place.

When a user visits 8coupons.com, the map on the homepage will automatically populate the top 8 most popular deals based on his or her IP address. This ensures that anyone who visits the site will see the deals that are most relevant to them specifically. The top 8 deals will change dynamically as the user moves the map around to different locations, zooms in on a specific street, or narrows down the deals by sub-categories such as restaurants, entertainment, beauty & spas, services and shopping. (more…)

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‘You In?’ — Yahoo! Launches Campaign to Inspire Kindness Around the World

December 8th, 2009 Social Guy

You In

Kindness is contagious this holiday season. Based on the belief that it doesn’t take a great deal of money or time to spread happiness, Yahoo! announced the launch of a year-end giving campaign called ‘You In?’ designed to inspire a ripple of kindness around the world.

As an extension of its year-round Yahoo! for Good Purple Acts of Kindness program, Yahoo! now encourages its global community of more than 600 million people to give back through random acts of kindness during the holiday season. Yahoo! asks people to visit kindness.yahoo.com and post online status messages there describing their good deeds, as a call for others to do the same.

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