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Social Discovery Start-Up Hyphos Helps College Students Find Activity Partners

in Social on January 29 at 11:56 am PT

Hyphos is a social discovery start-up focused on finding offline activity partners for college students.
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Voices

Tagged Acquires Facebook Competitor hi5

in Social on December 14, 2011 at 10:25 am PT

Hi5, once one of the top three global social networks, was acquired by San Francisco-based Tagged on Wednesday, as some of the remnants of the social network space clear out in the wake of Facebook’s overwhelming dominance.

News Byte

Salesforce Pays $50M for Assistly Customer Service Platform

in News on September 21, 2011 at 2:01 pm PT

Salesforce said today it has acquired the customer service platform Assistly for $50 million in cash. Assistly helps companies manage customer service through various channels like Facebook, Twitter, chat, email and phone, and is a competitor to Zendesk. That marks the third (and biggest) acquisition in one day for Assistly investor True Ventures: WeGame was bought by Tagged and VodPod assets were bought by Lockerz.

How Big Is the “Social Discovery” Opportunity?

in Social on August 30, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Want to meet someone new with whom you share common interests or perhaps a location? Web services for that stuff are, oddly, kind of rare. But here are some companies that are trying.
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News Byte

Tagged, You're It: Social Network Buys Digsby IM Client

in Social on April 19, 2011 at 10:35 am PT

The social network Tagged has acquired Digsby, which makes a multiprotocol instant messenger and social network notification client for Windows. Terms were not disclosed, but Rochester-based Digsby has three million registered users and raised $500,000 in angel funding. Tagged said it plans to keep Digsby available, and it will be moving the Digsby team to its San Francisco office.

In Search Of… Images Worth 1,000 Results

in The Mossberg Solution on January 12, 2010 at 4:47 pm PT

Google and Microsoft are offering visual searches where a picture is worth many Web results.
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Insert Bad "Tagged, You're It" Pun Here

in News on July 10, 2009 at 5:55 am PT

Tagged.com claims it is the third-largest social network in the U.S., in terms of total monthly visits. And now, perhaps, we know why: Tagged lured new members to its site by tricking users into providing it with access to their personal email contacts. The company then spammed those contacts with promotional emails disguised as invitations to view personal photos. And when they registered with Tagged to view those photos, the company spammed their contacts as well. An interesting variation on the “membership drive” and one that’s gotten Tagged in hot water with New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who intends to sue the company.
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Insert Bad “Tagged, You’re It” Pun Here

in News on July 10, 2009 at 5:55 am PT

Tagged.com claims it is the third-largest social network in the U.S., in terms of total monthly visits. And now, perhaps, we know why: Tagged lured new members to its site by tricking users into providing it with access to their personal email contacts. The company then spammed those contacts with promotional emails disguised as invitations to view personal photos. And when they registered with Tagged to view those photos, the company spammed their contacts as well. An interesting variation on the “membership drive” and one that’s gotten Tagged in hot water with New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who intends to sue the company.
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Embrace. Extend …. What Comes Next, Again?

in Social on March 25, 2008 at 12:09 am PT

In February, Microsoft surprised industry watchers and embraced the idea of data portability, throwing its support behind OpenID, a decentralized digital-identity protocol. This morning came the inevitable extension of that idea, the announcement of a partnership with five social networks on a new data-portability strategy.