Liz Gannes

Imgur COO Matt Strader and founder Alan Schaaf

Interview: Imgur’s Path to a Billion Image Views Per Day

A benevolent attitude and an informal alignment with Reddit have helped Imgur stand out in the commodity business of image hosting.

Liz Gannes in Social
May 15, 2012 at 6:30 am PT

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Now Called TalentBin, Honestly.com Pivots to Less-Controversial Recruiter Tool

Liz Gannes in News on May 15 at 5:02 am PT

The anonymous and controversial coworker review site Honestly.com (first known as Unvarnished) has become a tool for recruiters, now called TalentBin. It compiles social media profiles of prospective software engineering candidates for clients like Groupon, Intuit, ModCloth and CBS Interactive.

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Social+Capital and Greylock Fund Health Insurance Site Simplee

Liz Gannes in News on May 15 at 5:00 am PT

Simplee, a health insurance management site that helps consumers pay bills, has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by the Social+Capital Partnership and including seed investor Greylock Partners. The company, which launched last year and competes with Cake Health, said it is compatible with 80 percent of U.S. insurers, and plans to expand to large employers and health savings account banks.

Twilio’s Danielle Morrill Leaves to Found Affiliate Start-Up Referly

Liz Gannes in News on May 14 at 9:06 am PT

Danielle Morrill, director of marketing at developer-focused cloud communication start-up Twilio and its first employee, has left to found her own company: Referly.

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Kickstarter Bug Exposed Unreleased Projects, but Mostly to The Wall Street Journal

Liz Gannes in Commerce on May 14 at 8:45 am PT

For the last three weeks, Kickstarter had a security hole that allowed viewing of unreleased project proposals — but no account or financial info — through its API. The Wall Street Journal, which discovered the problem, downloaded 77,000 projects and drafts from the site. But aside from that, Kickstarter said in a blog post, only 48 unlaunched projects were accessed while the bug was live, some of them by Kickstarter’s engineers working on its API.

Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo

Liz Gannes in News on May 11 at 7:42 pm PT

Google is in talks to acquire Meebo, according to two sources close to the situation.

A Million Users? Pshaw. What’s a Hit in Today’s Metrics?

Liz Gannes in News on May 11 at 2:23 pm PT

How to spot meaningful growth for a new app or service when so many things are blowing up so fast.

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Diaspora Says It’s Back on Track, Joins Y Combinator Program

Liz Gannes in Social on May 11 at 10:35 am PT

Diaspora, the open source social network that rose to fame on the back of Facebook privacy scandals and one of the first viral Kickstarter campaigns, is now rebuilding itself around creative self-expression, following setbacks including the suicide of a co-founder, as detailed in this good Bloomberg Businessweek profile. One tidbit the profile reveals is that the team has been accepted to participate in the next round of Y Combinator, starting next month.