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LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of 8 April 2010 (2010 -04-08), LinkedIn had more than 65 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. LinkedIn's CEO is Jeff Weiner, previously a Yahoo! Inc. executive. The company was founded by Reid Hoffman and fou...

Boogami

Boogami is a search engine that was developed by James Wildish, a sixteen year old college student from Kent in United Kingdom. It combines a search engine with a pixel advertising grid that appears every time someone uses Boogami to search the Internet, and for the fact that it offers free pixel advertising to charities. James approached the Where On Earth Group and internet marketing specialists Divadani for help in launching Boogami and making it a success. As a result, the British media ...

Sprout

With Sprout, you can build, publish and manage widgets, mini-sites, banners, mashups and other rich media Web content in three easy steps: 1. Build - Sprouts can be of any size and any number of pages and can include images, video and audio and components such as slideshows and jukeboxes as well as Web service components such as Twitter, PollDaddy, ChipIn and more. 2. Publish - Just click "publish" to get your sprout code and then embed into any Web page, or use the "quick post" featu...

A software conference breaks out at Web 2.0 Expo

NEW YORK--When News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch plunked down $580 million to buy the social networking site MySpace in 2005, C.H. Low had a reaction not that uncommon among tech industry veterans. "I said, 'This is ridiculous! Are we in another bubble?' " said Low. "But I thought, 'Murdoch is a smart man. Something else must be going on here.' " Three years later, Low is the CEO of the software startup Orbius, one of an estimated 50 to 100 companies selling software and on-demand tools to ...

Facebook to set up international base in Dublin

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Online social networking site Facebook will set up its international operations center in Dublin, officials said on Thursday. "After exploring various locations throughout the region, we decided Ireland was the best place to establish our new headquarters," Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a statement. The Dublin center will provide a range of online technical sales and operations support services to Facebook users across Europe, the Middle East...