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MySpace wants Photobucket for $250 million

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photobucket.jpgPhotobucket, the image sharing website, has over 40 million registered users, with 80,000 new users signing up each day and MySpace wants it for $250 million.

The social networking site proposed the buyout just a few weeks after the two services fell into dispute over advertisements placed on MySpace websites. The row was eventually resolved and an official statement from Photobucket said that the company had established open lines of communication with MySpace to prevent a sudden block of Photobucket content in the future.

“Open lines of communication” must have paved the way for the $250 million offer. What a way to make up and forgive each other.

Originally posted on May 8, 2007 @ 9:32 am

Can you hire my mom?

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Hire My MomThere’s a new breed of women professionals out there. They are experienced, talented and motivated. They are women on a mission to redefine their career path. This new generation of professionals is opting to leave corporate America for a more flexible work environment. No longer does having a career force them to sacrifice their family time. Nor does it mean sacrificing their career to have a family. But where can companies find them?

HireMyMom.com will help companies locate qualified home workers by enabling professional women to market their skills, experience and education to businesses needing to outsource work. Businesses can hire these mom professionals at a fraction of the cost of hiring traditional employees or contractors for temporary or permanent assignments. This creates a win-win relationship where a company gets a high-level professional at a reduced cost and the professional is able to keep a flexible schedule working from home.

Businesses need reliable, motivated, cost-friendly help. And these professionals are eager to prove their talent and skills. In fact, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that over 5.4 million mothers put their careers on hold to stay home with children. That adds up to a lot of talented women with experience, education, skills and motivation to find flexible work that can be done from their home office.

Originally posted on May 8, 2007 @ 7:00 am

Web 2.0’s Inability To Market To Adults

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A study conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project called, A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users, shows how people use technology to socially interact with others, as reported by News.com.

Their findings clearly show that despite adults accessibility and capability to use various forms of technology for communications purposes, very few engage in public forms of communication. They instead use private means of communication, such as cell phone text messaging and online instant messaging. This seems to be indicative of the generational divide, where the older generations value their personal privacy far more than the younger generations, who actively engage in social networking sites that broadcast personal information and communication in a more public manner.

With all the venture capital funding being thrown at new Web 2.0 start ups, if they fail to market themselves to the broader Internet population they will find that they can’t become successful enough to meet the expectations of investors and may end up shutting down.

This study’s findings could be significant in terms of the success or failure of social networking sites and the Web 2.0 movement as a whole. If the Web 2.0 movement continues to be unable to market beyond the younger generations and the tech savvy demographics, then their ability for market growth will be significantly limited, which could ultimately signal the bursting of the bubble for Web 2.0.

Originally posted on May 7, 2007 @ 6:01 pm

Online community for real estate flippers launched

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FixtoFlip, a new community that provides the tools and resources to fix and flip residential real estate profitably, announced the launch of its website.

FixtoFlip.com is a member-based, online community that provides members with the tools and systems used by seasoned real estate flippers to not only track the progress of a property and accurately project the profit of a flip, but to determine the viability of a property prior to sale. The website features preconfigured forms for evaluation and planning, and a network of prescreened partners including realtors, lenders, mortgage brokers, contractors, and insurers among others.

“Our mission at FixtoFlip Inc is to create a community that benefits new and seasoned residential flippers, and offers those investors the resources to make fixing and flipping houses easy, enjoyable, and profitable” said Daniel A. Dunleavy, president of FixtoFlip Inc.

Originally posted on May 1, 2007 @ 1:19 pm

Fabulously40.com promotes new on USA Network

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In time for Mothers Day, Fabulously40.com, the only online sorority for women in their prime, is promoting with the USA Network a new 6-hour television series “The Starter Wife.”

“The Starter Wife” is a sexy, savvy and wickedly funny tour de force about life after divorce and one woman’s quest to redefine herself after years of marriage to a Hollywood studio head. After being blacklisted from premieres to pilates, Molly Kagan (Debra Messing) searches to rediscover life after divorce.

FabulouslyForty is a social networking Web site and a destination for women of a certain age, who want to celebrate and embrace their life. The Website provides their sorority sisters with a platform to develop individual profiles, build personal blogs, promote their hobbies, businesses, post photos as well as host and have access to their own e-mail accounts – all in a member-secure community environment. Fabulously40 social network offer women a forum for self-expression, instant connection with others alike and valuable education through articles and discussion forums.

“Fabulously40.com provides women with a unique opportunity to create their own profiles, link to other members in the network and become a part of a vast community of women, who share the same interests and look to support one another,” said Yana Berlin, founder of Fabulously40 Inc. “We believe The Starter Wife will resonate with our audience and we are pleased to help promote the series to our members.”

Originally posted on May 7, 2007 @ 5:54 am