Yes, MySpace Is Launching A Spotify Competitor. It Has No Choice
MySpace is planning to get into the music subscription business - because let's face it, it's got to do something. The move into music subscriptions has been rumored for quite some time, but Monday...
View ArticleThe 6 Technologies That Mattered Most To Small Business In 2012
Even though 2012 was a tough year overall for small businesses - the stubbornly slow economy didn't help - technology improvements continued to offer hope of lowering costs, boosting efficiency,...
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The CEO's Social Media Strategy: Ignore It [Infographic]
Zeno Group's 2012 Digital Readiness Survey revealed a striking truth: businesses are burned out on social media, too. For all the lip service paid to social media marketing and all the "New Media...
View ArticleUsing Big Data To Solve Social Discovery's Relevance Problem
Guest author Johann Schleier-Smith is co-founder and CTO of Tagged, a social-media site designed to connect people of like mind who don't already know each other. The desire to connect with people is...
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SDL SM2: Find Out What People Are Saying About Your Business On Social Media
(This post is sponsored by SDL-SM2, a social-media analytical tool for small- and medium-sized businesses and small agencies.) Tracking and measuring social media is no longer just a nice-to-have for...
View ArticleCan Big Data + Big Dating = True Love?
Guest author Mat Young is senior director of products at Fusion-io, In recent years, big data and technology have infiltrated nearly every part of our lives – and dating is no different. Today,...
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Social Capital: How Relationship Science Captures It All
One of the big promises of social networking is that it will inject your networking skills with PED (performance enhancing data), able to give you the biggest network on the block. If you're a believer...
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SXSW Wrap Up: Launches, Panels, Buzz & Snark [Infographic]
The SXSW interactive festival in Austin, Texas, is famously sprawling, crowded, hectic and intense. Not surprisingly, that can make it hard to sum up the impact of the entire event in any meaningful...
View ArticleFacebook Phone's "Home" App Leaks Ahead Of Launch
The so-called “Facebook Phone” will be the big news this week. As with many highly anticipated product launches, some believable rumors are filtering out ahead of the official announcement. In this...
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Why Aren't College Students Using LinkedIn To Find Jobs?
The jobless numbers in the U.S. remain an ongoing concern throughout the country. For college students and recent graduates, often dubbed "millennials," the numbers are even worse. More than half of...
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Dear College Students: LinkedIn Is Not The Same As Facebook
College students are understood to be incredibly savvy at social networking - 90% regularly use Facebook, for example. Yet too many students fail to leverage readily available professional social...
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New 'Social' Businesses Want To Know All About You. No Thanks!
Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com's hyperbolic CEO, has been telling anyone who will listen that the "sudden convergence of cloud, social and mobile spheres" is forcing - and allowing - companies to...
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App.net: Get Your Free Invite From ReadWrite Before They're All Gone
App.net, the ad-free social network and blogging service, is a fascinating experiment in community-building when all outside influence has been stripped away. Limiting messages to 256 characters and...
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Zynga's Hemorrhage Continues: 18% Of Staff Laid Off
Zynga, the social gaming company that rode the Facebook wave on its way up, is finding the way down brutal. The company is laying off 18% of its staff - 520 employees, to be precise - in yet another...
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Bill Gates Backs "Open Science" Social Network ResearchGate In Push For Nobel...
Most social network founders want to make money. Ijad Madisch, the scientist-CEO behind ResearchGate, has a higher goal: He wants to win a Nobel Prize for the network. Five years after its founding,...
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Facebook's Big Gay Question
Most technology companies have vague mission statements that put a feel-good gloss on how they make money. This weekend, Facebook actually lived up to its claimed ambition "to make the world more open...
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How To Get The Most Out Of Google+ Today
Since its makeover in May, Google+ has been steadily winning a war of aesthetics over Facebook, which has yet to roll out its redesigned News Feed to all users. While a visual overhaul is a great way...
View ArticleHow Social Media Has Complicated Work Relationships
Dan Schawbel is a Gen Y career and workplace expert, the Founder of Millennial Branding and the author of the new book, Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin's Press). In the...
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LinkedIn’s Hunger Games: Will You Volunteer As Tribute?
Get ready to feel really awkward on LinkedIn. The professional social network introduced a new feature Wednesday that turns logging on to LinkedIn into a game-like experience by showing you how you...
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The Rise And Fall Of Orkut: Google's Decade-Long Social Media Experiment
On Monday, Google announced the end of its first foray into social networking, Orkut. September 30, 2014 will be the 10-year-old network’s final day. ReadWrite has been covering underdog Orkut since...
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