YouTube Founders Now Proud Owners of Delicious

Yahoo officially confirmed that its social bookmarking service, Delicious, has been bought by Chad Hurly and Steve Chen — that would be the two founders of YouTube. The power duo has started a new internet venture, AVOS, and beginning July 2011 Delicious will be one of its newest components. Furthermore, it’s also being reported that

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Facebook’s Groupon Face-off

This week, Facebook opened its brand new online discounts program, Deals, for service. Deals will be slowly rolled out in a few cities at first before extending further. So far, San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, Austin, and Atlanta have been named as the first cities to have access to the program. Deals is being classified

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Twitter to Become More User-Friendly and Buy TweetDeck

TweetDeck, the popular app that permits status updates and better arrangement of Twitter tweeps — columned alignment by affiliation or relevance — will soon be bought by Twitter. Jack Dorsey, Twitter-founder, along with Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone, was recently (three weeks ago) reinstated as Twitter’s Product Chief. Although there are over 200

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New Deal: Japanese GREE Buys American OpenFeint

The announcement came last night that GREE, Japan’s biggest social networking service paid $104 million to buy OpenFeint, a social gaming platform that lets users add friends, view friends’ activities, and participate in forums and chats. Yoshikazu Tanaka is GREE’s founder and CEO. News outlets are reporting that OpenFeint’s own CEO, Jason Citron will not

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Google Map Maker Open to U.S. Contributors

Google is staying on track with its publicly stated goal to both deepen and broaden every social aspect of its offerings. First came the +1 announcement, which introduced a new search feature that makes it possible to give and view ratings of Google search results. Now, posted just this week on Google’s official blog, is

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Walmart Wants to Stand Out in the Social Commerce Environment — Buys Kosmix

The announcement came today that Walmart is set to buy Kosmix, a social media company operating from Mountain View, CA. Kosmix’s price tag upon being taken over by the massive discount chain store has yet to be peeked. Walmart sees the buy as a way to increase its sales through having a greater presence among

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Coming Fall 2011: Facebook App for Financial Aid

A new Facebook app is arriving — just in time for the 2011 fall semester — that promises to make it easier than ever for students to find financial aid. News of the app came during the fourth annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU), celebrated this past weekend at the University of California, San Diego.

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Fashion Registries Gaining Popularity

Although it might be missing a more elegantly punning name, there’s no one here to claim that Fashism.com hasn’t come up with a good idea for social couture. The website now has “Got Dibs,” a registry usable through Facebook that lets uploaders get advice on fashion choices and perhaps more importantly, through the honor code,

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New Social Video App for iPad

You are now free to watch the videos your friends post on Facebook, Twitter, and Vimeo in a personalized and streamlined format, you’ll just need an iPad or iPhone. Today, Remixation (the Vodpod people) released the free iPad app Showyou. The app’s claim to fame is its ability to create an attractive video display grid

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Facebook Studies China, Wins One Legal Battle

If you’re in China, it’s really tough to get on Facebook or YouTube or Twitter because they’ve all been officially blocked since 2009. But just like it’s the case for every other business out there, everyone wants in because China has so many users, buyers, and consumers in waiting. Everyone knows it’s the largest market,

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