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Despite the hype, this year’s best social networking opportunities for designers are still the classics. Thanks to a dash of mobile device innovation, your favorite networking sites have become even stronger. Here are five key pillars for your social networking repertoire in 2011.
Kickstarter is an innovative social startup that uses crowd sourcing to fund creative projects and ambitious endeavors. This startup is made up of a team of 14 in New York, New York with offices in the Lower East Side. Half of them work on the product (designing and coding), and the other half work with the community. Kickstarter sets itself… Read more
Earlier on January 2011, SexySocialMedia reported that Groupon’s CEO, 30-year old Andrew Mason declined a $6 billion offer from Google. It has been confirmed by several blogs including Mashable that Google has taken Groupon’s snub quite personal and is getting ready to launch a Groupon competitor called Google Offers. Google describes Google Offers as:… Read more
You saw it. You drooled. You bought it. Actually 1,301,296 of you bought it. You got a $20 Amazon gift card for just $10. Nice! LivingSocial got $13,012,960 in gross sales for one day’s work. Not bad!… Read more
Funded in 2009 by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), as part of its “iFund,” in cooperation with Apple, and by Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn and investor in Facebook, Shopkick has the vision of bridging the mobile and physical retail worlds. Shopkick’s iPhone and Android apps allow store patrons to automatically check in at stores as they walk in,… Read more
Groupon’s growing market share of the group buying phenomenon and its rejection of Google’s $6 billion buyout has lead investors to pour money into the fledging start up. Its value has increased by four fold and is now estimated to be worth an outstanding $4.8 billion. With more investors on the horizon and the popularity of group deals Groupon is… Read more
Hello Bar is a valuable web toolbar. You can deliver messages to your website users using Hello Bar. Hello Bar helps your message to get noticed. Hello Bar helps you to create an attention-grabbing bar at the top of your website. The bar can have one line of text and a link. Each website has lot of information and it… Read more
Groupon’s CEO, 30-year old Andrew Mason, has just joined the Hall of Fame of Entrepreneurs that say no to a lot of money. Just like Facebook’s Zuckerberg did to Yahoo! and MTV Networks just a few years ago, Groupon has declined the $6 billion offer from Google. There are both supporters and critics of Groupon’s snub to Google, but nobody… Read more
Available for both Android and the iPhone, the RunKeeper fitness app employs your smartphone’s GPS radio to track the distance, time, pace, route, and elevation of your jogs. If you haven’t heard from them, then it’s about time because PCWorld selected RunKeeper as the ‘Run Smarter’ app among best apps available for multiple phone platforms. There has been explosive growth… Read more
We all have lot of social networking and social media accounts. Have you ever though of a single platform to pull all your online scattered profile details to build a stronger online identity ? Have you been looking for one site to show updates from all your social media and social networking sites ? About.me have come up with the… Read more
