It seems that a cover story on the business-famous FastCompany magazine is what has kept Chris Hughes off the media as he undertook a self-imposed moratorium to stay away from the press while the man he backed and helped become the president took center stage in Washington.
That seems pretty strange for a young man who is pretty used to being in the spotlight by co-founding the largest and the most popular social networking site on the planet and then going on to unleash the web-built base for the most extensive and captivating presidential campaign in US history.
Under the headline The Kid Who Made Obama President; How Facebook Cofounder Chris Hughes Unleaded Barack’s Base- and Changed Politics and Marketing Forever, the cover story reveals a bit more info about Facebook’s co-founder from a personal standpoint. Starting from coming out of the closet when in boarding school, to how touched his parents were when Obama acknowledged his efforts.
Now we wonder, how being Chris Hughes would be like … [via Gawker]
After hearing that Toshiba selected Nimbuzz for the TG01 mobile phone, more good news came our way. Apparently one of the most comprehensive and useful iPhone/iPod VoIP application in the Apple store, Nimbuzz promises to allow you to make Wi-Fi calls to instant messaging buddies on your iPhone and also extend the calling services for VoIP calls to landlines and mobile phones with Skype Out. How? By using 10 VoIP partners that include famous providers like Gizmo5, Vyke, SIPgate and A1.
The 3G-enabled service not only offers greater connectivity for your iPhone, but brings in calling options for iPod users and even extends it those that do not have an access to Wi-Fi networks. Because Nimbuzz is smart! If you happen to be outside the signal coverage the app still allows you to make cheap local and international calls– using Nimbuzz’s Dial-Up VoIP in over 50 countries.
And since Nimbuzz already has the iPhone and iPod users elated on this one, you can also receive Twitter feed updates from your IMs and also chat on sites like Facebook and MySpace
Since there are many people that couldn’t imagine a day without checking their mail accounts on google, the fact that Gmail is becoming more and more popular, doesn’t come as a surprise.
Significant as they indicate the “weight” of some of the most popular websites, reports showed that in the last few weeks, Americans have accessed Gmail more than before. Much more! Actually, the popular mail service made it to the top10 list by demoting YouTube. The market share of visits to Gmail has increased 70% by March 7, 2009, compared to the same time last year– while YouTube has seen a relatively low growth of just 16% in the same period.
Gmail holds 0.92% of the dynamic market share currently, while close on its heel is YouTube at the 11th spot with 0.87% of the share.
With most referrers from Google (48.83%), Faceboook (4.37%) and Yahoo! Mail (4.29%) and with the fast growing of other social networks (smells like Twitter), Gmail is expected to settle the YouTube war in a matter of a weeks and plans to take on its next rivals, MSN & Yahoo! Search.
Are you surprised?
The global economic meltdown has hit hard everyone and it seems that even the biggest tech tycoons in the world are finally feeling the pinch of the difficult times.
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Some would argue that the $40 billion that Bill Gates potentially owns is still no joke, but just the fact that it could have been a lot more and could end up being a lot less in the next couple of years is a clear sign that the rich are not getting richer that easily anymore! The list of world’s leading billionaires recently published by Forbes (cut down to 793 from 1125 the previous year) gives an indication as to how the tech tycoons have lost tons of cash and could be heading in the wrong direction…
The 40 tech and media moguls had a cumulative loss of around $ 81.5 billion in the last year alone and have seen their collective wealth drop to $ 203.4 billion. Although it sounds small compared to the whooping $1.4 trillion that left the billionaire club when compared with 2008.
While Bill gates sits on top of the tech giants list and gained a couple of spots, it is only because others have also lost huge. Gates lost a staggering $18 billion while Sergey Brin of Google parted with over $6 billion. With Michael Bloomberg the only one gaining ($5 billion), numbers are further expected to take a hit in the billionaire club.
That’s how nice the financial world is …
No?
In a recently published survey by Nielsen Online the company stated that the incredible growth in popularity of social networking sites and blogs was largely due to the use of mobile phones which allows consumers to stay always online.
Nimbuzz, the only messaging company to have ever won the prestigious Red Herring Global 100 award, was chosen by Toshiba as its partner for the launch of the brand new TG01 handset. Expanding with over 20,000 new users each day, Nimbuzz will enhance the internet connectivity, web browsing experience and the social messaging capability of the mobile phone – that is all set to make its debut in the market.This strategic partnership is not just something that would benefit both the firms immensely, but also adds to the user experience of the TG01.
Combining social networking and mobiles services seamlessly, Nimbuzz has been known to provide top notch VoIP services that include Skype, Google and Yahoo Messenger and also access to sites like Facebook and MySpace from the comfort of your mobile.
Designed to perfectly suit the tech-savvy generation of today, the Nimbuzz addition to TG01 ensures that you stay hyper-connected and always in the loop, wherever you go and whatever time it might be. Seems like a win-win situation, don’t you think?
Survey firm Nielsen Online has revealed that its latest survey has seen a quantum shift in the number of people who have jumped over from the traditional email to the use of social networking sites and blogs.
Clubbing the two and calling them as ‘Member communities’ (MC), Nielsen says that all across the globe, the phenomenon of social networking and blogging is taking over and growing rapidly.
Latest stats suggest that 67% of global population is hooked to the MC on net and Brazil tops the list with 80% of its people clicking away at these sites. But it is UK and Germany that have registered the greatest MC user growth in the last year with a 10.3% and respectively 12.5% increase.
The phenomenon is being attributed to the staggering popularity of sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Digg along with the interest of companies like Microsoft and Yahoo in such ventures.
Also the problem of Spam when it comes to emails seems to have forced more and more people in this direction. But the most important reason seems to be the introduction of mobiles that are being custom crafted to access such sites. This has seen a humongous 249% user increase in the UK and 156% in the US when it comes to MC users through mobile.
Seems like blogging and social networking are taking over for now, and we’re happy about it.
Source: TheGuardian
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