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By Posted on Posted in Social Networking, Twitter, Web 2.0 No Comments Tagged with , , , , ,

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Happy Birthday Twitter, you are 3 years old now and still online. It all started on 21st of March 2006 when Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, together with Evan Williams, Biz Stone and others, created a social media company that has grown over 1300% in the last year.

According to a post on Nielsen Wire, unique visitors to Twitter.com increased 1,382 percent year over year, from 475,000 unique visitors in February 2008 to 7 million in February 2009. This growth earned it the title of “fastest growing member community site,” a term that encompasses not just social networks but any online community – even one such as online wiki community Wikia, which, incidentally, came in at number five on the list. Zimbio and Facebook followed Twitter, growing 240 percent and 228 percent, respectively.

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By Posted on Posted in Social, Social Networking, Stocks, Web 2.0 No Comments Tagged with , , , , ,

StockTwits is an open, community-powered idea and information service for investments. Users can eavesdrop on traders and investors, or contribute to the conversation and build their reputation as savvy market wizards. The service takes financial related data – using Twitter as the content production platform – and structures it by stock, user, reputation, etc.

Log into the site with your Twitter details and you will be presented with a user interface filled with comments and stats showing the top ticker buzz, the top StockTwit talkers, and the top gainers and losers.

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By Posted on Posted in Acquisition, Blogging, Web 2.0, Websites No Comments Tagged with , , , , , , , , , , ,

Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than the product — the Pownce service will shut down in two weeks.

Yesterday Leah Culver (co-founder) posted on the official Pownce blog: “We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad and Vox.

We’ll be closing down the main Pownce website two weeks from today, December 15th.”

Mena Grabowski Trott, born Mena Grabowski on September 16, 1977 (age 31), is a co-founder of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad. The company name originates from the fact that Trott and co-founder/husband Benjamin Trott were born six days apart.

Trott is president of Six Apart. She helps lead management and business efforts, and makes the company products aesthetically pleasing and functionally intuitive. She made her first efforts in weblogging at dollarshort.org in 2001.

Movable Type was originally developed by Mena Trott and Benjamin Trott during a period of unemployment in late 2001 for Mena’s personal blogging use.

Trott was named one of the People of the Year by PC Magazine in 2004. That same year, she was named a member of the “TR 100,” (now known as the TR35), an annual award given to leading technology advocates by Technology Review magazine.

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By Posted on Posted in Lays Off, Web 2.0, Websites No Comments Tagged with , , , ,

Business networking site LinkedIn is joining the long list of companies that have announced cuts in the last few weeks — it has laid off 36 employees, or about 10 percent of its total staff.

Last month, it announced $22.7 million in new funding, bringing its total backing to $100 million.

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OtherInbox is the email address you use for all the stuff you don’t want coming to my main email address – mostly shopping, news and social networking. Pretty much any time you are not giving your email address to a real person you use my OtherInbox. That way your main Inbox only has important stuff in it and everything else is in your OtherInbox. Once its in there, OtherInbox automatically organizes and everything for you into folders for each website. This saves you time because you can jump right to the messages you care about and easily ignore the ones that you are not interested in reading right now. It also shows you what’s really going on with your email address – if someone sells my information to spammers you know right away and can stop it.

How does it work? Instead of just having one email address, such as jbaer1975@gmail.com, you have unlimited email addresses at your own domain name, josh.otherinbox.com. You don’t have to set them up ahead of time, you can just make them up as you go along. You give out a different email address to every website – Amazon gets amazon@josh.otherinbox.com and Facebook gets facebook@josh.otherinbox.com. This way OtherInbox can reliably sort everything coming back into folders. If anyone sells your email address you will know exactly who is responsible and you can Block that one email address so that you never see their emails again. It’s powerful!

Beta invites available at
http://beta.otherinbox.com/signup/twitter
While they last!!!