This past weekend, Qype expanded its European presence and launched its Italian site. For anyone who hasn’t heard of Qype before, the site originally launched in 2005 in Germany. Qype now boasts over 350,000 active users, who have contributed over 1 million local reviews. I previously wrote about Qype when I visited them at Seedcamp.
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MyHeritage updates its Family Tree Builder
MyHeritage is a social network and software for genealogists. Launched in 2005, MyHeritage has since accumulated 33 million users worldwide. The company helps people build family trees, share them with their relatives and stay in touch with their loved ones. They are the most popular free family tree website, according to ProGeneologists.com. Family Tree Builder, […]
Mobypicture implements new hashtag service
Hashtags are becoming a useful way to organize information in today’s information age, when data is spread over a multitude of platforms. It is incredibly time consuming to log into Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and every other niche network that you have an account on and update the same information over and over again. However, with […]
Socialmedia.biz helping you find a job in the social media world
Disclaimer: Donanza is a client of my firm, Blonde 2.0, a one-stop-shop for all your social media needs. People don’t look for jobs in the newspaper classifieds anymore. Instead, job postings are dispersed through a variety of niche networks, from groups on LinkedIn, tweets on Twitter, and widgets and search engines on a variety of […]
FasterWeb: Making sites perform 2 to 10 times faster
If you listen to Google (and these days who doesn’t?), speed is everything on the Web. “Page load times are the critical metric,” says Marissa Mayer, Google’s SVP for search. She says the entire basis for Google’s success was their emphasis on extremely fast page loads way back in the dial-up era when the Web […]