Microsoft Acquires Photo Sharing Site WebFives

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Ah, Microsoft. Always late to the game. Maybe it’s a part of their strategy: wait until Google (Picasa Web Albums) and Yahoo (Flickr) establish solid market positions, and then develop or buy an (usually inferior) product of their own and try to corner those remaining 10% of users. This time, ...

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Hi-Media Closes Fotolog Acquisition; Site Still Growing Rapidly

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Hi-Media Group has officially completed its acquisition of Fotolog, the photo sharing site the company purchased in August for a reported $90 million. Apparently, Fotolog is still growing quite quickly, reporting 3 million new members since the deal was announced, bringing its total to over 13 million. The ...

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Snooth This: $1M for Wine Review Site

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Snooth got another $1 million in angel funding, from its initial investors including Ryan Moynagh and Will Armitage, and a new group of international investors as well. Does this involvement with international investors indicate potential global growth, or a bigger push for international retail partners? This funding ...

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And the Number One Site for Women is … CafeMom

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Glam Media claimed to be the number one destination for women back in June. Much was made of those numbers, which consist not only of Glam.com traffic, but sites that the company represents for advertising sales. As for actual destination sites, October numbers from comScore show CafeMom as ...

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Completing a Web Site Template using Inheritance in PHP 5

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

If you re a PHP developer who develops object-oriented applications on a frequent basis then you ll know that inheritance can be an extremely useful concept that might help in reusing code when it comes to creating a hierarchy of classes. This article and yesterday s take ...

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