Myebook: Self-Publish Multimedia Books Online
Mar 31, 2009 General, Mashable, Mobile 2.0, Social Media, Social Networking, Video, Web, Web Apps
In today’s do-it-yourself online world, self-publishing your own content can be accomplished in a plethora of ways. If, however, you’re looking to create and distribute a polished e-book made up of either text, photos, audio, and video, or a combination of all four, Myebook is a solution with a slick interface for creating and viewing e-books worth considering. With Myebook users can create their own e-book from scratch or PDF, incorporate a myriad of file types into their books, drag-and-drop assets, browse and effortlessly flip through other e-books, and connect with other members.
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Diggnation Now Showing on Facebook
Mar 31, 2009 Mashable
To-date, Diggnation, the popular internet show staring Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, has been entertaining the masses courtesy of Revision3, the online TV network that Rose co-founded.
Currently fans of the show can watch online, subscribe podcast-style on iTunes, Miro, or Zune, or grab RSS feeds to watch in their application of choice. If that’s still not enough variety, or you simply don’t want to leave Facebook, then you might enjoy the fact that Revision3 will now be syndicating Diggnation episodes to Facebook.
Leveraging the unlimited reach of the new Facebook Pages, and a partnership with iWidgets for social syndication, Diggnation is poised to expand their audience on Facebook.
Members can start watching the weekly show on Facebook via the Diggnation tab on the fan page. Plus, once you enable Facebook Connect through the Diggnation iWidgets app, you can quickly add the app to your own Wall or Boxes tab, where your Facebook friends can catch the show and opt to add it to their profile as well.
Though we certainly think it’s a smart move on Revision3 and Diggnation’s part to syndicate episodes to Facebook, we’d like to see more sophisticated features that enable users to share particular episodes — not just the app itself — with their Facebook news feed so that friends can like and comment on favorite episodes.
Also, as we noted in yesterday’s piece on the official partnership between Adobe and Facebook, SproutBuilder, an iWidgets competitor, has already integrated the new ActionScript client library for publishing flash content as either a Facebook application or a Facebook Connect Web app. So today’s Diggnation Facebook syndication announcement is likely to be just the first of many for Web shows looking to gain the massive exposure that Facebook can attract through the myriad of built-in sharing options.
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What Are Some Social Networking Sites Similar To Linkedin? | DesiTonic
Mar 31, 2009 Social Media, Social Networking
My uncle has to get a new job, and it was recommended that he join some social networking sites such as LinkedIn to gain connections and speak to others in his.
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Facebook Sure Does Have Trouble Keeping Execs
Mar 31, 2009 General
Facebook will soon have its third chief financial officer in less than two years, the company announced today via a leak to the Wall Street Journal. Gideon Yu, the man who came back from Dubai empty handed, is out. The hunt for his successor is starting now.
Facebook says this is about getting a CFO with public company experience (“We have retained Spencer Stuart to lead our search for a new CFO and will be looking for someone with public company experience.”). Which is complete nonsense (and poorly thought out nonsense at that), because Yu, after a short stint at YouTube and an even shorter stint at Sequoia Capital, was the treasurer and SVP Finance at Yahoo. Which is very much a public company.
So why is he leaving? We have to speculate for now, but perhaps he’s not convinced the company can get another round of financing at the valuation the board wants to see. Or it could be any of a thousand other things. But it most certainly isn’t because he doesn’t have public company experience.
Less than two years ago Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said of Yu “I consider it kind of a coup that we were able to recruit him here…He’s just excellent.”
I wonder why he didn’t add “I just hope for his sake that Facebook isn’t too successful, because if we IPO at some point, he’s out.”
Yu is just the most recent Facebook exec to leave the company. Here’s a list of at more than ten that have left since 2007 (not included on the list is Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly, who is expected to leave this year to run for Attorney General in California):
Gideon Yu, VP and CFO – left 3/31/09
Net Jacobsson, director of business development –left, March ‘09
Owen Van Natta, chief revenue officer – left in Feb ‘08
Adam D’Angelo, co-founder and CTO left in May ‘08
Matt Cohler, VP of product development and #5 employee – left in June ‘08
Katie Geminder, Director of Product, left sometime after Jun ‘07
Jeff Hammerbacher – left in July ‘08
Ben Ling, head of developer platform – left in Aug ‘08
Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook cofounder– left in Oct ‘08
Rudy Gadre, VP and General Counsel, January 2006 – April 2008
Mike Sheridan, CFO, left in June 2007
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More Layoffs Hit hi5
Mar 31, 2009 General
We’ve confirmed that hi5, the third largest social network in the world, is laying off employees today. hi5’s VP of Marketing, Mike Trigg, wouldn’t say how many employees were being let go but we’ve received multiple independent tips that the social network laid off 50% of its staff. Previous to this round of layoffs, hi5 employed around 100 people. Trigg said the layoffs were due to a “realignment of the company” and that it was also a cost-cutting measure. Obviously, revenues were not keeping up with costs.
The social network recently went through a previous round of layoffs last October, letting go 10 to 15% of its staff due to another “restructuring.” hi5 gets about 63 million monthly unique visits worldwide but only 3.7 million of those are from the U.S., according to ComScore’s February stats. The site boasts close to 80 million registered users but apparently many of these users are just not in markets that advertisers find particularly appealing.
Hi5 is the third largest social network in the world. Facebook is the most popular social network worldwide with 275.6 million unique visitors, with MySpace is coming in second with 125.8 million unique visitors. Orkut is No. 4 with 51.7 million.
We’ve added the layoffs to the TechCrunch layoff tracker.
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