How Tagged Found A 100 Million User Path Post Facebookocalypse (Video)

Heard of Tagged ? Back in 2005 it was a teenager-only social network, catering primarily to U.S.

Yammer 2.0 To Launch As A Powerful, Full-Fledged Social Network For The Enterprise

Since Yammer launched as the “Twitter for businesses” at TechCrunch 50 in 2008, the startup has continued to improve on its already solid product, releasing mobile apps and new desktop clients, adding threaded conversations, hosted versions and more. The fact is that in just under two years, Yammer, which we use at TechCrunch for internal communications, is being used by more than one million users and 80,000 companies worldwide (which includes 80% of the Fortune 500)

Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator

Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian will be taking a position at early stage venture firm Y Combinator , the company will announce later today. Ohanian left Reddit, one of the first Y Combinator startups ( acquired by Conde Nast in 2007), in 2009.

As Facebook And Orkut Duke It Out In India, SMS GupShup Hits 35 Million Users

As Facebook and Google’s Orkut duke it out for traffic in India, another social network has quietly gained traction in the space. SMS GupShup, a Twitter-like service in India that is primarily accessed via SMS, has hit 35 million users (up from 26 million late last year) with 1 million users joining monthly.

Gmail’s Permanent Failure: Only Humans Can Build Software For Humans

Editor’s note : Guest author Adam Rifkin is a Silicon Valley veteran who organizes a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers called 106 Miles.

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