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Grouply Claims to Blow Past Ning; Now What?

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:37:05 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
The LA Times and others are reporting that EA has acquired Shawn Fanning’s social-network-gaming startup Rupture for around $30 million. We reported this deal a month ago.
The first sentence of the LA Times story: “Shawn Fanning…has finally earned some money.”
The title of our post a month ago: “Shawn Fanning Finally Gets A Real Payday…”
Here’s […]Source:TechCrunch
Personalized radio service Pandora has taken the plunge and released an AIR application into beta that allows users to play music from Pandora without opening the browser.
When I first heard of this development, I thought it was such a cool idea. Music playback is one of those things that really doesn’t need a full browser […]Source:TechCrunch
Adam Penenberg of Fast Company got lots of well-deserved grief for his cover article about Ning last month, the one that focused on the Andreessen and Bianchini duo’s “viral expansion loops”.
The overly simple idea behind those loops is this: members join a service and then invite their friends. Rinse and repeat, and you’ve got exponential […]

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Grouply Closes $1.3 Million Round

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:30:06 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
Online discussion aggregator and management service Grouply has taken $1.3 million in funding from Reid Hoffman, SoftTech VC, Harvard Angels, and Western Technology Investment. The funding is on top of their initial $935,000 taken from the same investors in June 2007.
Grouply offers a centralized discussion platform that allows users to track and manage their discussions […]

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Grouply Gives A Much Needed Upgrade To The ?Board Scape?

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:30:05 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
With the Hollywood writer’ strike in full swing, the TV networks are about to green light a lot more reality TV shows and other non-scripted programs. Wil Schroter, a serial entrepreneur in Columbus, Ohio wants to help fill those shows through GotCast (he is also CEO of GoBig Network, a Craigslist for startups […]Source:Techcrunch
Before the days of vampire bites and “social advertising” there were online message boards. In 1999 eGroups had 17 million members when they sold to Yahoo for $432 million in stock. Now they have over 100 million members with an equally large volume of email traded back and forth. Add on top of that users […]

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Wetpaint Combines Discussion Forums With Wikis

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:30:04 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
Seattle-based Wetpaint, which launched in June 2006, is a hosted wiki site that focuses on great looking sites and making the user interface as easy as possible. A number of wikis have popped up around popular pop culture stuff, as well as more private sites.
Tonight they added new feature that should generate a lot of […]

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