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How websites are using your data [infographic]

By Graham Charlton July 19th 2012 08:02

This infographic from Baynote looks at how Google, Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter are gathering and using your data…

Blog Social

Face.com, third party APIs and little white lies

When Face.com announced it was being acquired by Facebook last month for a reported $80 to $100m, you can be sure that it was happy day for Face.com’s founders, employees and investors.

But it wasn’t necessarily a day worth celebrating for developers relying on Face.com’s facial recognition API. The reason: Face.com had just been acquired by one of tech’s biggest names and as we’ve seen time and time again, that often means big changes ahead.

Blog Strategy

Five lessons learned from Digg’s rise and fall

Social news site Digg was once one of the most popular services on the internet. An early social media darling, Digg and its founder, Kevin Rose, were the subject of numerous high-profile articles, including an embarrassing (and not-entirely-accurate) BusinessWeek cover piece with the headline How This Kid Made $60 Million In 18 Months.

It wasn’t just the media lavishing attention on Digg: investors poured big money — some $45m in total — into the company.

But what goes up often comes down and as it turned out for Digg, the company’s future was not going to be nearly as bright as its early years. Yesterday, the company’s assets, including the code for the Digg site itself and its domain, were sold to New York-based development firm Betaworks for a reported $500,000.

Blog People and Skills

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