It’s Friday, which means we can get away with posts like this one. Straight from the WTF department comes this cringe-worthy and unintentionally funny press release, entitled ‘Facebook and Google Have a New Frienemy – BoingOpia.com launches Patent...
Skout, a location-based social network for meeting new people, has secured $22 million in new funding from Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz to aggressively roll out its flirting website and smartphone apps worldwide. Skout raised the exp...
The perennial problem faced by businesses today is seemingly this: How can they harness technology to enhance productivity and knowledge-sharing in the workplace? We’re seeing an onslaught of enterprise-focused tools hitting the marketplace, and B...
Yammer, a company that has Twitter-like properties to assist companies to create better communication throughout its ranks, has launched a new dashboard analytics tool which gives employees a deeper look into what’s happening in their network. The...
Imagine a murder in your neighbourhood. The police release a photofit. They put it on Facebook. You see it and recognise the murderer: it’s you. That’s what citizens of the German city of Hanover are afraid of. In Hanover, local police have implem...
At LeWeb we had the pleasure to meet Michael Lazerow, CEO and founder of Buddy Media, a social enterprise software company with an impressive list of clients, featuring some of the world’s largest brands. Michael talked to us about Buddy Media’s n...
Don’t worry – although the Mayans seemed to believe that 2012′s going to be a short one, we promise you we have enough events for you to fill your agenda. You can start by adding this year’s evolved and improved TNW2012 Conference in Amsterdam. Of...
One of the buzzwords you heard the most in 2011 was “gamification“. It has no real definition, meaning it’s not in the dictionary as of yet, but the trend to turn everything into a game somehow has definitely caught on. Adding badges, leaderboards...
Years before the notion of Web 2.0, dialup and AOL ruled the nation and the web existed in its 1.0 infancy. After the benefits of logging online were experienced by the masses, the web began growing blindingly fast. The web continues to move so qu...
