aol.com - 10/30/2008
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techcrunch.com - 10/31/2008
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techcrunch.com —
When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in
2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity...
in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase. With that kind of cash, the company could hire as many ...
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Facebook’s Growing Problem
sportsbusinessjournal.com - 10/28/2008
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sportsbusinessjournal.com —
By ERIC FISHER Staff writer Former AOL programming
chief Jim Bankoff has secured a mid-seven-figure sum of...
venture capital for SB Nation, a startup network of sports blogs, from a group of digital media and technology luminaries. The round of funding ...
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Tech leaders back sports blog network
factoryjoe.com - 10/29/2008
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factoryjoe.com —
Julie Zhou of Facebook discusses usability findings from
Facebook Connect. Julie Zhou of Facebook discusses usability findings...
from Facebook Connect. Photo John McCrea. All rights reserved. See? We're working on this! Monday last week marked the first ...
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OpenID usability is not an oxymoron | FactoryCity
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Walled Garden No More, AOL Adds Social Networks to Homepage
Wired: Epicenter —
... AOL has added access to several social networks and an RSS reader to its homepage as part of a major overhaul that kicked off last month to open up its site to outside services. ...
AOL launches access to social networks from its new site
901am —
... AOL announced a brand new homepage that will let consumers access multiple social networking services directly from AOL.com, becoming the first major portal to offer direct access to information from major social networking sites. This follows the move last month to provide access to multiple e-mail services from the AOL.com site, and is part of AOL’s ongoing strategy to open its ...
AOL Does Social Networking
Tech Observer —
... AOL has added access to several social networks and an RSS reader to its homepage as part of a major overhaul that kicked off last month to open up its site to outside services. ...
AOL Redesigns and Opens Up a Little Bit More
ReadWriteWeb —
When Google radically changed its iGoogle homepage a little while ago, many of its users were up in arms about these changes. By updating its homepage today, AOL ran a similar risk, but instead of making radical changes to the design of the page, AOL managed to include a lot of new functionality on the new homepage without shocking its users with a completely new layout. The new features on the AOL homepage are mostly centered on adding support for third-party social networking services.
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AOL: Hello to Facebook, goodbye to Xdrive, Pictures
Betanews —
... . The company went live on Thursday with a redesigned AOL home page featuring access to multiple social networks and instant messaging services, initially including Facebook and MySpace as well as AOL's Bebo and AIM. Meanwhile, though, AOL users received letters this week giving them until December 31 of this year to download their files from AOL Pictures, Xdrive, and Bluestring. With the start of the new year in January of 2009, "all files and data stored on those services will be deleted," according to AOL. To retrieve those files, users need to go to log in to Xdrive using ...
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