When Delicious decided to get a makeover, the online criticism was swift and cutting. Australian start-up Trunk.ly might have been the most vocal in it’s fault-finding—and it seems to have paid off. Delicious’ parent company AVOS has announced that it is buying the company. READ MORE
What’s the difference between Google and Facebook? Google focuses on algorithms, Facebook focuses on people. So says Sheryl Sandberg, formerly vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, and now Facebook’s COO. READ MORE
When Google+ first launched, it was notorious for policing and banning brand pages. After famously shutting down William Shatner’s page, the company has since made it simple for brands to set up pages. But that’s also made it easier for random folks to set up fake pages. READ MORE
Groupon continued to adjust its IPO documents earlier this week. The company said that it had split its voting common stock but not raised the $16 to $18 share price. Groupon’s prospectus, a regulatory document all companies looking to make initial public offerings must file, has undergone a number of changes since the company first announced plans to go public. READ MORE
In what some analysts see as a bid to keep its valuation up, Groupon is offering less stock in its IPO, only 4.7 percent of its stock overall, than any other American Internet IPO of similar value since 2000. When LinkedIn had its IPO in May, it offered 8.3 percent of its stock. READ MORE
Facebook has announced two new security features, but at least one IT security company is pointing out problems with the social network’s site instead of applauding the changes. READ MORE
Got a particularly cute kid, or puppy…or product? We’ve all seen the phenomenon where a pair of funny twins, or a cat playing the piano gathers a zillion YouTube views. Is there a way to increase the likelihood of this happeneing to you? And if it does, can you make any serious money from it? Yes, and yes, according to The New York Times. READ MORE
How much do you care about your Klout score? While some people shrug off their mysterious social-influence-measurement number, others care deeply if their Klout goes up or down, and some of them were less than pleased when the new algorithm launched and they experienced a dramatic drop. READ MORE
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has been called upon by the Knight Foundation, a sponsor of innovative media projects, to bring a venture-capital mentality to the befuddled industry. Hughes will take a position on the Foundation’s board. Hughes and digital media experts from MIT and Harvard will join board members like ProPublica founder Paul Steiger in finding ways to make journalism profitable again. READ MORE
On Tuesday, TheNextWeb’s Brad McCarty put into writing something that every journalist has thought many times: “No, I will not publish your press release.” Frustration runs very high for those of us who face hundreds if not thousands of press releases in our e-mail daily–and it must be equally frustrating to be on the sending end of those releases. But what especially set him off was the assumption by some that we should routinely republish press releases, and that our purpose in life is to assist companies in getting the word out about their products, rather than try to create content that readers will find compelling. READ MORE
