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| 19.03.2026 | US InsurTech IPOs Soar: $2.64 Billion Raised in 2025 | US insurance IPOs reached $2.64 billion in 2025. This sets a new record since 2021. The insurtech sector shows robust growth. Digital adoption is a primary driver. AI and machine learning enhance services. Venture capital flows at record le... |
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The latest data reveals a significant milestone for the fintech industry. US Insurance IPOs Raised $2.64 Billion in 2025: The Highest Since 2021 marks an important development that underscores the sector’s robu... |
| 11.03.2026 | Slide Secures $70 Million to Power Global BCDR Expansion for MSPs | Slide, a Norwalk, CT-based Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) platform built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), has successfully closed a $70 million Series B funding round. This substantial investment will drive comprehens... |
| 11.03.2026 | Slide Secures $70 Million to Propel Global BCDR Innovation for MSPs | Slide, a Norwalk, CT-based BCDR platform tailored for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), has successfully closed a $70 million Series B funding round. This substantial capital injection will ignite global expansion, accelerating product inno... |
| 10.03.2026 | CrawlJobs Raises $3M in Funding | CrawlJobs, a London, UK-based provider of an AI-powered job board and recruitment platform, raised $3M in funding.
Backers were not disclosed.
The company intends to use the funds to support the expansion of its aggregation infrastructure a... |
| 10.03.2026 | Slide Raises $70M in Series B Funding | Slide, a Norwalk, CT-based security-first business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) company, raised $70M in Series B funding.
The round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Base10, Outsiders Fund, futurepresent, Vine V... |
| 19.06.2025 | Американская медицинская компания Caris Life оценена в $7,7 млрд в ходе IPO на Nasdaq | «Мы ждали достижения некоторых ключевых рубежей. Мы погасим часть наших долгов за счет полученных средств и укрепим наш баланс, чтобы иметь возможность инвестировать туда, где это необходимо», — сказал в интервью президент компании Caris Li... |
| 12.06.2025 | US IPO market revival takes root as Chime soars in debut | US IPO market revival takes root as Chime soars in debut
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| 11.03.2025 | AI-Powered Ads Platform Creatopy Appoints Tammy Nam as Chief Executive | Creatopy, the AI-powered digital ads platform, announced that former Picsart COO & CMO Tammy H. Nam has joined as its new Chief Executive Officer and Board Member. The move caps a year of tremendous growth for the platform and signals t... |
| 06.06.2012 | People matter: why you should have a great co-founder | Start-up is a lot of work. Down the line to underpin your world together you must have support and a co-founder can be the best source of energy and sauce you need. Any start-up typically takes two to three years to stand, this time can var... |
| 14.10.2011 | YouTube Disco Stops Dancing, Nobody Notices | Google’s YouTube debuted an experimental music discovery project dubbed YouTube Disco last year in January, enabling users to create quick-and-dirty playlists and discover new artists and music videos on the fly.
Not that this is a really b... |
| 27.08.2011 | Hell Hath No Fury Like A SuperPoke Pets Player Scorned | This past Thursday, Google decided they had had enough of their Slide experiment. Even though it had only been a year since they spent $200 million+ on the social apps startup, they brought the hammer down, killing all but one Slide product... |
| 26.08.2011 | Google kills Slide, VP Levchin departs | Google plans to retire many of Slide's apps over the next several months
Just one year after acquiring social app-maker Slide for $200 million, Google has decided to nix the whole thing, and Slide founder and Google VP Max Levchin is leavin... |
| 25.08.2011 | Bloody Thursday: Google Deadpools All Slide Products Except One | Because we needed more big tech news this week. Yes, it’s true that Google has just brought the hammer down on Slide, as Liz Gannes of AllThingsD first reported earlier this evening. Yes, it’s also true that Max Levchin is leaving. Now we a... |
| 22.07.2011 | VideoInbox, Another Google/Slide Production, Brings Viral Videos To Your Inbox | We’ve come across the latest in Slide’s series of projects developed within Google, VideoInbox — a combination daily newsletter/Facebook app that basically centers around the viewing, sharing and cataloguing of viral videos (proof that it’s... |
| 20.07.2011 | Online payment company WePay helps little guys, goes after big ones (PayPal) | Online payment startup WePay announced WePay Stores today, a new ecommerce solution for small businesses with zero tech prow.
It’s nearly impossible to describe WePay Stores without sounding like a commercial. It really is a simple solution... |
| 26.04.2011 | Google Games is Coming to Every Device, Screen, and Platform That You Own | This morning, with the posting of a new job position on LinkedIn, Google has finally dispelled all doubt that it is indeed working on a ‘Google Games’ platform.
Over the past few years, Google has done a very good job of keeping fingers in ... |
| 26.03.2011 | Google enters group messaging fray with Disco | Google has just quietly launched a group messaging offering, Disco, both as an online service and as an iPhone app. The new service will face competition from apps like GroupMe, Fast Society, Kik, and Beluga.
Disco lets you organize group m... |
| 06.08.2010 | Google Looks To Make Services “Socially Aware” with Slide Acquisition | News that Google had bought Slide came earlier this week, but with little detail other than the $182 million pricetag. This morning, both Google and Slide posted official announcements on the deal, offering a few more details on what to exp... |
| 06.08.2010 | Executive brief: Google buys Slide | Want to know more about Max Levchin, CEO of Slide, which Google just picked up for $228 mln?
He made throwing sheep a rage on Facebook, now what kind of social behavior will he encourage now that he's at Google?
Congratulations to Max Levch... |
| 06.08.2010 | Google confirms acquisition of social app startup Slide | Google just announced that it has acquired Slide, the social application maker headed by PayPal cofounder Max Levchin (pictured). The news confirms rumors from earlier this week.
TechCrunch first reported the deal at a $182 million price, l... |
| 06.08.2010 | Google confirms acquisition of 'Superpoke' maker Slide | Google on Friday officially announced it has acquired Slide Inc., confirming rumors circulating earlier in the week. Slide creates entertainment products that tie in with social networks and online communities such as SuperPoke! and its fam... |
| 05.08.2010 | Reports: Google to Buy Slide | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
According to unattributed reports last night in TechCrunch and the New York Times, Google plans to acquire Slide, the San Francisco-based maker of social applications and game... |
| 04.08.2010 | Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games* | We’ve just learned that Google has agreed to buy Slide for $182 million, in a deal to be announced Friday. And sources also tell us that this is not the last move Google is going to be making to cobble together a serious social gaming and a... |
| 05.05.2010 | The Founders Fund lands $107M | Peter Thiel and crew closed their third fund, according to an SEC filing Wednesday.
The Founders Fund is one of the more interesting tech investment funds, and not just because it's tied up with Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia, nor just be... |
| 04.03.2010 | Slide Lays Off 10% Of Staff, Shutters Short-Lived Games 'SuperPocus' And 'Top Fish' | Slide, the online entertainment company founded by Max Levchin (who we just interviewed in Davos), has decided to stop development on two of its social games, Slide SuperPocus and Top Fish, and will be laying off “less than 10%” of its empl... |
| 18.02.2010 | Mobile game maker Moblyng closes $1M round | Moblyng began life as FlipTrack in 2007. The Redwood City, California-based startup began by porting Flash slideshows to mobile platforms, sort of like Slide. Today the company makes the popular games m:poker and m:vampire.
Today, Moblyng f... |
| 01.02.2010 | Davos Interviews: Max Levchin Says Slide Now Makes Almost All Of Its Money From Virtual Goods | Continuing his series of Davos interviews, Michael talks to Slide CEO and founder Max Levchin in the video above. Levchin discusses the ” shift from advertising to virtual goods” and reveals that most of Slide’s revenues now come from sales... |
| 30.11.2009 | Serious Business looks for life beyond Friends For Sale! | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Friends For Sale!, the game where people can “buy” other people as if they are pets, has had tremendous staying power as a popular app ... |
| 30.11.2009 | Serious Business looks for life beyond Friends For Sale! | Friends For Sale!, the game where people can “buy” other people as if they are pets, has had tremendous staying power as a popular app on Facebook.
Launched in November 2007, the social game has attracted more than 25 million registered use... |
| 27.10.2009 | For Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, failure is an option | Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failure, revived their careers, and then gon... |
| 31.07.2009 | Open data is the future of web discovery | Twitter cofounders have talked about the importance of discovery in interviews and at conferences over the last several months. This week a new design for Twitter.com went live featuring top tweets and a search box to find more of what you ... |
| 31.07.2009 | Open data is the future of web discovery | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter cofounders have talked about the importan... |
| 24.07.2009 | MySpace is a big gaming platform but it hopes to be more of one | Many of MySpace‘s nearly 125 million monthly active users are already playing social games made by companies like Playdom and Zynga. But the News Corp.-owned social network is hoping for more, chief digital officer Jonathan Miller said toda... |
| 24.07.2009 | MySpace is a big gaming platform but it hopes to be more of one | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Many of MySpace‘s nearly 125 million monthly active users are already playing social games made by companies like Playdom and Zynga. Bu... |
| 23.07.2009 | Y Combinator's Mixpanel Takes Stat Tracking Beyond Google Analytics | One of the most key steps to building a succesful startup is figuring out what works — and what doesn’t. To do this, many companies rely on things like A/B testing to figure out which workflows and designs work best. But there are some thin... |
| 07.07.2009 | Slide cuts staff, refocuses on premium ad deals | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Slide, maker of popular social networking applica... |
| 07.07.2009 | Slide cuts staff, refocuses on premium ad deals | Slide, maker of popular social networking applications like Super Poke and Top Friends, is changing its revenue strategy, placing new emphasis on premium advertising, such as brand sponsorship of apps. Due to this shift, the San Francisco c... |
| 22.06.2009 | Media-Sharing Site ThisMoment Launches Public Beta | ThisMoment is a new media-sharing site (see our previous coverage) which lets you post photos and videos in a slideshow format while also sharing them across the web to sites like Facebook and Twitter. Part microblog, part social network, a... |
| 19.06.2009 | Widgetizing The Web: Widgetbox Hits 500 Million Impressions A Month | Widgets were all the rage last year. And the trend seems to be growing. Widgetbox, a widget creation and distribution platform, is reporting 500 million impressions worldwide in the past month, according to Quantcast. Widgetbox says that th... |
| 15.06.2009 | Transpond ditches widgets, switches to apps | Transpond has rebranded itself to emphasize its new focus on application development. Formerly called iWidgets, the San Francisco company now provides tools to develop apps for a range of online and mobile platforms, including the Palm Pre.... |
| 23.05.2009 | How Facebook, MySpace and YouTube Killed eBay | Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Keith Rabois, vice president of strategy and business development for Slide, the social entertainment company. Prior to Slide, Keith was a VP at LinkedIn and an EVP at PayPal in charge of among other t... |
| 08.05.2009 | Facebook platform developers could see $500M in revenue this year | A growing number of game makers on Facebook are making money from virtual goods — from poker chips to virtual clothes that users can buy or earn while playing gaming applications with their friends on Facebook. The combined ecosystem of the... |
| 18.04.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Social Media Monitoring, Future of Firefox, eBay Sells StumbleUpon, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at the latest in social media monitoring tools, investigate how cloud computing is being used in scientific research projects, review some... |
| 24.02.2009 | With social media apps, who owns the user? | Watercooler CEO Kevin Chou on helping brands to build a fan base, but keeping control of the user
Half a billion people are on social networks, mainly to socialize. They exchange and share photos, constantly update their status, and they ne... |
| 19.02.2009 | Why all the bashing of branded apps? Lack of insight. | [Editor’s note: In December, VentureBeat ran a column from Keith Rabois, vice president of strategy and business development at SuperPoke maker Slide, about the drawbacks of branded applications on social networks — that is to say, apps cre... |
| 29.01.2009 | PhotoPeach: Easy to Use, No Frills Photo Slideshow Service | There is clearly no dearth of slideshow services on the Internet. Some are intricate like Animoto, and others, like Slide, are mostly geared towards the MySpace and FaceBook crowd. PhotoPeach takes a more minimalist approach and focuses pur... |
| 23.12.2008 | The plight of branded apps and the future of social marketing | [Editor’s note: So it turns out branded apps are a bust — even if you’re Nike or Coca-Cola. Below, Keith Rabois, vice president of strategy and business development at app maker Slide, explains why and gives big-name advertisers some much-n... |
| 04.12.2008 | Mint Joins The World Economic Forum, Knows That You've Cut Back On Starbucks | Mint, the personal financial site that won TechCrunch40, continues to thrive even as our economy sinks deeper into an economic decline. The company has just been selected as a TechPioneer by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – ... |
| 29.10.2008 | VentureBeat downturn event: Tightening your belt isn’t enough | Everyone knows startups will have to make cutbacks to survive the coming downturn, but that’s not enough: It’s also important to look for new opportunities, even if that means completely rethinking your business model.
That was the big them... |
| 07.08.2008 | YouNoodle’s startup predictor wants to tell you how much your company is worth | YouNoodle, an online community and website for entrepreneurs, just unveiled a feature that’s certain to attract (and anger?) plenty of curious users — a “startup predictor” that scores early-stage companies’ promise and feasibility, and eve... |
| 30.07.2008 | Is social media a business? | There is value to be unlocked once the 'right' ad unit standards emerge
I am a fan and subscriber to the paper version of Technology Review, but was disappointed in their cover story in the current edition, where Bryant Urstadt looks at the... |
| 23.07.2008 | Max Levchin To Facebook: Developers Need More Certainty (And A Payment System Would be Nice Too) | Slide was not too happy when Facebook temporarily pulled one of its most popular applications, Top Friends, from the social networking site for exposing too much profile information to people who were not friends.
Ahead of today’s F8 develo... |
| 09.07.2008 | Tapulous Wants To Be The RockYou Of Apple's App Store | Despite facing competition from thousands of other developers, Slide and RockYou have managed to establish themselves as powerhouses on Facebook’s application platform. Using a combination of social networking and clever (and sometimes shad... |
| 07.07.2008 | Facebook Continues War On App Developers. This Week: Super Wall | Facebook is continuing its war on Facebook apps that push the limits on acceptable user interaction. Last week it was Slide’s Top Friends App, which it briefly suspended. Later Facebook also suspended another popular app, Social Me.
This ti... |
| 30.06.2008 | Slide And Vh1 Team Up To Annoy The Hell Out Of You | Slide and Vh1 excel at making products geared towards America’s lowest common denominator. The first makes SuperPoke, a popular social network app that lets you send text messages saying you’ve done “stuff” to your friends. The latter produ... |
| 24.06.2008 | Smilebox's Media Presentation Tool Now For Macs | Make a Smilebox postcard
Smilebox released its desktop media client for Mac users today. The Flash-based tool can be used to compile digital slideshows, postcards, scrapbooks, and other arrangements for sharing photos and videos with friend... |
| 09.06.2008 | Slide Got Theirs, Now RockYou Gets Some Too | Back in January Slide pulled off a whopper of a financing for an effectively pre-revenue startup: $50 million, valuing the company at a cool half billion dollars. Not bad.
No one was surprised to hear that arch-rival RockYou would soon clos... |
| 04.06.2008 | Slide Opens Sales Office in New York, Seeks to Justify Huge Valuation | Slide is a peculiar Web 2.0 company. Perhaps the most interesting thing about it is founder Max Levchin, who co-founded PayPal and has been profiled as a workaholic by the New York Times.
Its operations themselves aren’t terribly fascinatin... |
| 03.06.2008 | Mochi Media launches game-plus-ad network for web publishers | Mochi Media, the San Francisco company that offers ads that run in online casual games, and analytics services that look at game performance, is coming out with a new service. It has packaged its ads and analytics services together with its... |
| 02.05.2008 | Watercooler: Yet another social network app company that’s making money | Nobody really knows how much social networks applications are worth, which leads some people to think that they’re not worth much of anything. But try telling that to the companies that are building businesses through applications, and they... |
| 30.04.2008 | Watercooler's SN Apps for Fans Backed by $4M | Meet Watercooler, a startup developing social network applications for all the usual suspects – Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, and Friendster – that allow fans to rally around their favorite sports teams and TV shows.
The Mountain View-based... |
| 26.04.2008 | Widgets: The Marketer's Recession Survival Tool | This guest post about the widget economy was written by Michael Jones, an angel investor, the CEO of Userplane and a Senior Vice President of AOL.
Userplane, which was acquired by AOL in August 2006, is a communications widget provider (add... |
| 22.04.2008 | Oosah: A Hub for Your Personal Online Media | Oosah is a self-described “media management system” with a simple-sounding intention: to serve as a one-stop shop for managing all of your online video, image, and audio files. This idea doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in isolation, so Oo... |
| 31.03.2008 | Social media gender gap grows as Yahoo launches Shine | (Editor's note: With Yahoo launching Shine this week, the market for online social networks geared toward women gets even more crowded. The new site, targeted at females aged 25-54, will move into a neighborhood already occupied by Sugar Me... |
| 06.03.2008 | Graphing Social Patterns Recap | O’Reilly’s
Graphing Social
Patterns conference, which was held this week in San Diego, brought together key people who are shaping the newly
born social platforms industry; platform providers, app makers, investors,
advertising networks, et... |
| 25.02.2008 | Zynga launches Facebook game developer platform, which might prove valuable | Zynga, an emerging empire of third party gaming applications on Facebook, announced a new ad network for developers a couple of weeks ago — and crossed swords with rival gaming company Social Gaming Network (our coverage).
Tonight, Zynga is... |
| 20.02.2008 | Trends: Secretive New York bank Allen & Co. gets into Silicon Valley media tech | Some big social web companies have recently started working with a small New York bank called Allen & Company. It’s a secretive, family-run firm that specializes in high-level connections between investors, media executives and other po... |
| 06.02.2008 | Web companies raise money to make themselves recession-proof | Many economists and others think a recession is imminent, if not here already. A number of prominent web companies appear to have reacted over the last few months by raising large amounts of money.
Take widget-maker Slide, for example. The ... |
| 06.02.2008 | Kodak, Slide help you win brownie points all year long with the lady friend | One of the biggest selling points for social networks, at least for me, is the ability to upload and see others photos. It’s pretty much the only way I stay in touch with friends in different parts of the country and world. I know there are... |
| 05.02.2008 | Aviary Invites Readers To Try Their Online Design Suite | When I first saw Aviary I called it an incredibly ambitious art project. Aviary is creating a online creativity ecosystem that consists of a Flash based graphics suite tied to a marketplace where artists can sell their creations.
For the su... |
| 03.02.2008 | Amid Yahoo Turmoil, AOL Makes An Acquisition | On Monday AOL will announce the acquisition of San Diego-based Goowy, a startup founded in late 2004 and which launched, incidentally, in my living room in late 2006 (we had a TechCrunch party where Goowy, Meebo, Sphere and other startups l... |
| 24.01.2008 | Widget companies are growing, helped by Facebook | Update
Companies that make widgets grew quickly last year. The largest four — Slide, Myspace, Clearspring and Rockyou — each reached more than 100 million people around the world last November, according to web analytics company Comscore. [... |
| 24.01.2008 | Chirp Launches Its Social Screen Saver In Beta | Today, Chirp is launching in public beta. Chirp is a screen saver, previously covered here, that lets you bring social feeds from Flickr and Facebook onto your desktop. Other social Websites will be added in the future. “Our purpose is to e... |
| 18.01.2008 | Slide Gets Their Huge Valuation And Raises $50 million | Three months ago Slide founder Max Levchin assured us that, despite rumors, he wasn’t raising money, and hadn’t even updated his pitch deck. He sure got his act in gear in a hurry, it seems. Today Business Week and The NY Times are reportin... |
| 18.01.2008 | Widget-maker Slide raises $50 million at $550 million valuation | Updated
Widget-maker Slide has raised nearly $50 million at a $550 million valuation from two private equity funds, Fidelity and T-Rowe Price, according to the New York Times, with the two firms buying a total of around a nine percent stake... |
| 15.01.2008 | Cartfly, other e-commerce widgets, make money without relying on ads | Widgets, the embeddable chunks of code on web pages that can feature anything from videos to RSS feeds, have proven to be a great way to reach lots of users. But how do they make money?
Advertising in a widget is an obvious way to try. Anot... |
| 10.12.2007 | Clearspring launches widgets for Madison Avenue | In the latest evolution of this fast-paced but not yet lucrative world of widgets, Clearspring, a leading widget company, has launched an ad network for widgets (sample widget left).
It comes at a time when advertising agencies on Madison A... |
| 02.12.2007 | Facebook App Developers Square Off: RockYou! Overtakes Slide | Back in August, we noted that most of the very big Facebook apps seem to be owned by Slide or RockYou!. At that point Slide had the most popular Facebook app (in terms of users), with Top Friends. However now RockYou!’s Super Wall app has o... |
| 02.12.2007 | RockYou climbing past Slide, to be number one widget-maker? | RockYou, the company behind popular Facebook applications and Myspace Flash widgets, may soon pass its arch-rival Slide to be the largest widget-maker in the world.
Some have accurately called such Facebook applications “mostly silly, usele... |
| 28.09.2007 | Hitwise: Slide Passes Flickr, Threatens Photobucket for Top Spot in NZ | The always interesting Hitwise web traffic analysts have released statistics this morning indicating that Slide.com has overtaken Flickr in at least one country, New Zealand (the birthplace of Read/WriteWeb), and has doubled its market shar... |
| 28.08.2007 | Slide – One Million Flash Widgets Added Per Day | Slide, which makes slideshow and media widgets for the major social network platforms (including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Xanga, Tagged and Blogger) has announced that more than a million new flash widgets are being added to its networ... |
| 28.08.2007 | Slide adding one million new Flash widgets daily | Slide, the most popular widget maker in the world, says users are adding one million new Flash widgets daily across all non-Facebook social networks, such as Myspace and hi5.
The San Francisco company says it now has more than 134 million u... |
| 09.08.2007 | JS-Kit offers simple comments, ratings and other widgets | JS-Kit, which lets people with basic HTML skills add interactive features to their websites, has raised $1.2 million from The Entrepreneurs Fund III.
It is the latest investment in a widget company, and comes at a time when the major widget... |
| 25.07.2007 | Facebook widgets rule… Migrants better educated… Dentists get bite on grad wages… Fine art blooms in India | Inside
Facebook widgets rule…
Migrants better educated…
Dentists get bite on grad wages…
Fine art blooms in India…
Quote of the day Everyone loves a Facebook widget
Independent software publishers that have created widgets for the Facebook ... |
| 23.07.2007 | Surprise: Facebook apps may help grow home sites | Slide, Rockyou and HotorNot, three companies with the largest number of users on Facebook, are showing continued traffic growth on their own sites.
The finding, reported by Quantcast, a service that tracks traffic trends for Web sites, sugg... |
| 20.07.2007 | Is Facebook Worth the Hype? | This was Facebook Week here at Read/WriteWeb, but I couldn’t help but notice how many other blogs wrote posts about Facebook this week as well. It seemed that almost every day there was a Facebook meme on Techmeme. Anecdotal evidence would ... |
| 06.07.2007 | So You Sold Your Company For Millions, What Next? | What would you do next if you sold your company to an Internet giant for millions of dollars? Existing examples show 4 different types of Internet millionaires:
Serial entrepreneurs – keep doing the same
Dreamers – expand their horizons
Mid... |
| 28.06.2007 | Facebook clamps down on spam-driven application growth | Facebook has quietly clamped down on the growth of applications developed by third parties for its platform, shutting down two means for viral growth.
The company has done so because it fears that some applications are spamming users, and m... |
| 26.06.2007 | Facebook apps are getting bought – land grab in progress? | Slide, the San Francisco company that lets you create photo slideshows that you can embed in blogs and other sites, has acquired a specialty company called Favorite Peeps. While the purported purchase price was piddling, it suggests a land ... |
| 14.06.2007 | PicLens, the full-screen slideshow | Piclens is a new plug-in for your Firefox Internet browser that lets you launch into a full-screen into a slideshow while browsing photos.
After you download PicLens, here’s how it works.
First, let’s say you want to look at all the picture... |
| 12.06.2007 | Slide pounds chest: Widget used by 14 percent of internet population | Internet traffic measurement company ComScore will release data showing that slideshow company Slide is the world’s top widget provider.
We don’t want to fall into the habit of issuing these numbers constantly, but the sheer size of Slide’s... |
| 04.06.2007 | Roundup: Google’s camera, Algoco, SpaceTime’s 3D search, Trivop and more | (updated) Here’s the latest action:
Google’s Street View continued — More details from BoingBoing on the scary little 11-sided camera that Google and its partner are using for street-level photography shots — exposing peoples’ living rooms ... |
| 24.05.2007 | CBS Expands Its Audience Network | As we reported, CBS’ new online strategy is to court web 2.0 sites and allow their content to spread virally across social media sites. The CBS Audience Network initiative already includes deals with AOL, Microsoft, CNET Networks, Comcast, ... |
| 21.05.2007 | Roundup: Peak coal, Yahoo-Bebo rumors, Mixercast and much more | Here’s the latest action:
Peak coal? — You’ve probably heard of the concept of “peak oil,” which refers to that point in time when we extract more oil than ever before, but after which we begin a long, steady decline as oil gets harder to l... |
| 17.05.2007 | My Pebble Beach Slide | I’ve been meaning to check out Slide. It’s been a while since I’ve played around with it. And I’ve been seeing big numbers for their photo widgets and I want to understand why.
I finally uploaded some of my Pebble Beach photos to Flickr (I ... |
| 15.05.2007 | RockYou says it’s rocking Slide, but both face trouble | Updated
When we reported that photo widget site Slide said it was the biggest independent widget maker on the web, with 150 million daily slide-show views, someone anonymously commented and said that RockYou’s numbers were better.
Either wa... |
| 15.05.2007 | MySpace To Acquire Flektor | MySpace will acquire Flektor, a just-launched service that allows users to create widgets from photos, video and text, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal. This comes right after the news of MySpace’s pending acquisition of ... |
| 11.05.2007 | Slide Reveals Big Stats; Look Out For Newcomer Flektor | The news earlier this week that MySpace is acquiring Photobucket for up to $300 million highlights the importance of the widget space in general, and photo/video sharing widgets in particular.
Competitors like Slide and RockYou allow users ... |
| 10.05.2007 | Slide largest widget maker on the Web? | Slide, the maker of a Web slide show feature, has emerged as a major player, boasting 150 million daily slide show views and more than 200,000 new slide show “widgets” created daily.
These numbers are astonishing, and are enough to make it ... |
