| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.10.2009 | Matt Galligan And Joe Stump Are Building An Infrastructure For Location-Based Services | Last May we wrote about a new company called Crash Corp that was being formed by Digg’s long-time Chief Architect Joe Stump and Social Thing founder Matt Galligan, who were looking to build alternate reality mobile games. Over the last six ... |
| 11.08.2009 | Why Streamy Could be the Next FriendFeed | In wake of the news of the FriendFeed acquisition by Facebook, we’re faced with the real possibility that FriendFeed.com will be shut down for good. According to the press release, “FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the t... |
| 09.07.2009 | Five Early-Stage Alternatives to the Traditional Investment Model of Growing Startups | The ways to grow a tech startup company are outnumbered only by the ways to skin a cat.
In between multiple rounds of venture capital from investment groups and skin-of-your-teeth bootstrapping, there exists an ecosystem of organizations de... |
| 02.07.2009 | Ain’t no thang: Socialthing sort of becomes AIM Connect | This past April, AOL began testing out a social toolbar for web sites, under the name of a lifestreaming service called Socialthing, which it acquired in 2008. The toolbar is now going through a rough transition into something else, althoug... |
| 16.05.2009 | Digg Lead Architect Joe Stump Teams With Social Thing's Matt Galligan To Found Crash Corp. | It must be something in the air. Spring perhaps. But when high level employees start to leave perfectly good startups before a liquidity event, there’s usually something pretty important that they think they need to work on. A recent exampl... |
| 15.05.2009 | Digg Lead Architect & Socialthing! Founder Start Mobile Gaming Company | Socialthing! founder Matt Galligan and Digg‘s Lead Arichitect Joe Stump are each leaving their day jobs behind to focus on Crash Corp, an alternate reality mobile gaming venture.
The concepts behind alternate reality (or augmented reality) ... |
| 12.05.2009 | Has AOL mothballed Userplane? | Userplane, a chat service for other web sites as well as an advertising network, sold to AOL for possibly up to $40 million in August of 2006. But reports from its clients — and sources I’ve spoken with — indicate that the service has been ... |
| 28.04.2009 | Socialthing Starts Spreading Across 75 AOL Sites | A couple weeks ago, I spotted the reincarnation of Socialthing on AOL’s country-music Website TheBoot and speculated that it would potentially be rolled out across AOL’s other MediaGlow properties as well. Today, a press release from AOL in... |
| 16.04.2009 | It's a Socialthing: AOL's Plan To Take On Facebook Connect With Lifestreaming and Chat | If you want to take a peek at how AOL plans to take on Facebook, you need to look beyond Bebo (the social network it bought for $850 million last year) to theBoot, a country music site hidden away off in a corner of AOL Music. A very intere... |
| 06.02.2009 | Bebo Prepares Itself for Reinvention | Earlier this week, we were lamenting about Bebo’s lack of innovation in the online social networking space. Here it was 2009 and they were only just now releasing tools that would help take Bebo mobile. Once again, it looked like Bebo was f... |
| 19.01.2009 | TechStars Now Accepting Applications For Its Class of 2009 | TechStars, a startup incubator that offers mentorship along with a relatively modest amount of seed funding, has begun accepting applications for the third year of its program. Interested companies can apply here between January 19 and Marc... |
| 06.10.2008 | Does it make sense to update your social networks via a voice call? | Ping.fm, a fairly new service that lets you update your status on several social networks at once, has signed a deal with the UK’s Spinvox whereby you can now update your status via a voice call. Ping.fm works on Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku, P... |
| 04.09.2008 | MeeID: A Simple App For Your Online Identity | Throughout the years, many sites have attempted to organize our online identities. There are people search tools like Spock, Naymz, and Rapleaf, to name a few that can locate your profile across the web and display for others to see. More r... |
| 20.08.2008 | Ten Startups Debut At TechStars Demo Day | Editor’s note: The following on-the-ground report comes from Don Dodge, who blogs at The Next Big Thing and is a business development executive for Microsoft. He is in Boulder, Colorado today attending TechStars demo day. Much like Y Combin... |
| 15.08.2008 | Latest AOL acquisition could pair SocialThing with AIM | In a move which could end up meaning either everything or nothing, the developers of a "lifestreaming" application have agreed to be acquired by a company whose track record with acquisitions hasn't always been pretty.
Confirming ... |
| 14.08.2008 | Confirmed: AOL Acquires FriendFeed Competitor Socialthing | We’ve received confirmation from AOL that the company has acquired Socialthing!, a lifestreaming service that competes with FriendFeed. We originally reported the deal on August 1.
AOL says that the Socialthing! team will report to SVP of A... |
| 13.08.2008 | How To Lifestream From Your iPhone | Recently, we took a look at the growing trend involving lifestreaming and how more people are choosing to go this route instead of establishing a more traditional blog. But outside of certain celebrity lifestreamers like Julia Allison, the ... |
| 01.08.2008 | Suddenly, AOL Loves Lifestreaming; Buys Socialthing! | AOL is getting into the lifestreaming business. Like Friendfeed or Facebook’s News feeds, it recently launched AIM BuddyUpdates, which lets AIM users keep up with what their instant-messaging buddies are doing on social services such as Twi... |
| 10.04.2008 | How to Get Customer Service via Twitter | There has been a lot of talk lately of companies monitoring social media, be it Twitter, blogs, or social networking sites, for mentions of their company name and responding to customer service issues. Some of this interaction has been in t... |
| 31.03.2008 | Ping.fm Centralizes Status Updates, But Is It Enough? | This morning I checked out Ping.fm, a fairly new service in the social network aggregation space that lets you update your status on several sites at once. So I can submit “Mark is brushing his teeth” to it and both my Facebook friends and ... |
| 11.03.2008 | Third party apps for iPhone: let the deluge begin | The iPhone SDK has not even been available for a week and we're already seeing the preliminary versions of software for the smart phone. Early entrant Socialthing! has opened in private beta, showing off its Web-based "digital life man... |
| 10.03.2008 | Watch Out FriendFeed: Socialthing! Is Even Easier to Use | Update: Head over to InviteShare to help others get into Socialthing! Each user is given 10 invites to hand out.
There are a bazillion social network aggregators out there (Mike attempted to round up some of the most notable ones here). Fri... |
| 01.03.2008 | Comment of the Day: Socialthing! Could be SXSW Breakout App | In our post SXSW Breakout App of 2008: What Will it Be?, Marshall Kirkpatrick looks at five possible contenders for SXSW breakout app. Last year it was Twitter, the year before Dodgeball. Commenter Rob nominatedsocialthing! as a contender: ... |
| 29.02.2008 | 35 Ways to Stream Your Life | It’s a pretty good bet that if you’re not making a Twitter or Facebook application, you’re probably making a lifestreaming application. Okay, so not everyone is into lifestreaming, but it is one of the hottest areas for development out ther... |
| 27.02.2008 | Pownce to Release More Complete API this Friday | Leah Culver, the lead programmer of Pownce, has informed us that the messaging/social networking service will release a more complete API this Friday, one with substantial improvements over the first version released late last October.
This... |
| 24.10.2007 | Roundup: Planet Google crowded, Verizon backs off, and more | Here’s the latest action:
1) Google facing employee overload
2) Verizon Wireless abandons legal challenge of FCC rules
3) Qualcomm comes up with competition for WiMAX
4) Could Yahoo finally be giving up social networking?
5) Google’s PageRa... |
| 18.04.2007 | TechStars Summer Camp for Entrepreneurs: Winners Selected | TechStars is doing something similar to what YCombinator has done – they’re funding 10 teams with up to $15,000 in seed capital and providing office space, operational support, and mentors from business leaders (and potential follow-on inve... |
