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- Connected Adds A Comprehensive Personal Relationship Manager To Gmail
- Finland's Applifier Grabs $2 Million In Funding
- GraphEffect Raises $2 Million To Increase Brand "Likes" On Facebook
- Wow, Microsoft And Google Are Punching Each Other In The Face Right In Front Of Us!
| Connected Adds A Comprehensive Personal Relationship Manager To Gmail | Top |
| When Salesforce bought personal relationship manager Etacts last year, it subsequently shut it down, which angered many of its loyal users. Today, Connected is launching to fill the gap that Etacts left. Connected is similar in a lot of ways to Gist, except that it hyper-focuses on your relationships within Gmail. Via a web app, Connected integrates with Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, and Google Voice to become a personal relationship manager. Connected builds comprehensive profiles for each of your contacts with your entire conversation history as well as their latest status updates, photos, and work history from across their social profiles. So you can easily access any relevant information in one place about a contact. One of the more useful features that Connected offers is a personalized daily agenda that includes relevant information about all attendees of meetings on your schedule. The service will email you a daily agenda with conenctions’ latest correspondence with you via Gmail, Tweets, and updates on both facebook and LinkedIn. Connected will also intelligently discover opportunities for you to reconnect with your network by notifying you of birthdays, job changes, and more (via Facebook and LinkedIn integration) and send you notifications when you have not kept in touch with a contact. Like Etacts, Connected takes a more human, personal approach to contact management. Connected’s founder, Sachin Rekhi was previously an entrepreneur-in-residence at Trinity Ventures, where he hatched the idea of Connected. Rekhi previously founded and sold Anwhere.fm to Imeem (which was then bought by MySpace) . | |
| Finland's Applifier Grabs $2 Million In Funding | Top |
| If you’re an independent game developer on Facebook it’s hard to compete with Zynga, particularly because Zynga does such a good job of cross promoting its various games. A lot of game developers are simply hoping they get bought by Zynga at this point. But a brave few are trying to compete. Applifier , a Finnish startup, helps those developers compete by creating a network of independent games, and then cross promoting them. It works a little bit like LinkExchange did back in the 90s. You allow other apps to be promoted around your game, and you get the favor returned. See this article from last year for a good overview of the service. It’s had unusual success in a somewhat crowded space, boasting 55 million monthly users of the games in its network. And now they’ve raised their first round of financing, we’ve heard from a source. Some $2 million in a round led by MHS Capital . We’ve reached out to the company for details and confirmation. CrunchBase Information Applifier Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| GraphEffect Raises $2 Million To Increase Brand "Likes" On Facebook | Top |
| Facebook marketing platform GraphEffect has raised $2 million in financing from LowerMyBills founder Matt Coffin and x+1 president Stephano Kim as well as VC firms Thrive Capital, CrossCut Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Founder Collective, Lerer Ventures and Baroda Ventures. GraphEffect helps brands and agencies leverage Facebook for advertising and lead generation purposes. The company, formerly called Focused Labs, relies on social performance algorithms to target Facebook ad campaigns, increase user engagement with Facebook fan pages and increase downstream conversions through the Facebook feed. With the cost of advertising to convert a user into a fan on a brand’s Facebook page being estimated at $1.07 a fan, GraphEffect is in a lucrative business. The company is also participating in the Facebook Advertising API Beta, getting a first mover advantage in the Facebook ad management department. The LA-based GraphEffect was co-founded by Clark Landry and James Borow and reached profitability in 2010. It will be using the new cash to bulk up their sales and technology divisions as well as expand the platform. Said Borow about the new financing, “Over the past year we have driven millions of new fans and customers for our clients. Our goal from day one has been to become the leaders in the social advertising space, and we are confident in our ability to achieve this with the help of our new partners.” CrunchBase Information GraphEffect Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Wow, Microsoft And Google Are Punching Each Other In The Face Right In Front Of Us! | Top |
| By now, you’ve undoubtedly heard the news. Google set up a sting operation (how cool is that?) in an attempt to catch Microsoft red-handed stealing their search results. And according to them, they did just that — and made it known. Microsoft has seemingly both sidestepped and denied the claim — and then has sent accusations back Google’s way. The whole thing is amazing, and to be honest, I’m still trying to parse it all. But you can get the whole gist by reading what’s on Techmeme , starting with Danny Sullivan’s original post on the topic. But what’s most interesting right now is that Google and Microsoft are engaged in a full-on war. Yes, they’ve more or less been at war for many years. But it’s mainly been a quiet war, that takes place behind the scenes and only occasionally includes quick jabs at the other one in public. But now they’re straight-up calling each other liars on Twitter, and their own very popular blogs! After the news and subsequent fight first broke out this morning. Microsoft immediately put up a rebuttal on their Bing blog, entitled: Thoughts on search quality . That article directly addresses Sullivan’s post but doesn’t directly call out Google for much. Then things started to get ugly . This prompted Microsoft communication head, Frank Shaw, to take to Twitter in an attempt to swing Microsoft into the offensive postion. Here were his three key tweets: @fxshaw Frank X. Shaw 1.Don’t be fooled. Google wants to change subject because they’re under investigation in the US and Europe for manipulating search results. about 13 hours ago via Seesmic Desktop Retweet Reply @fxshaw Frank X. Shaw 2. Google collects customer data from Chrome and Android. Pot calling kettle black? http://bit.ly/eLQV70 about 13 hours ago via Seesmic Desktop Retweet Reply @fxshaw Frank X. Shaw 3. Harry Shum very clear http://bit.ly/hYvCIM on 1k plus signals used in ranking algorithm…includes clickstream data. about 13 hours ago via Seesmic Desktop Retweet Reply Google’s Matt Cutts fired back on Twitter: @mattcutts Matt Cutts So far Bing's response seems to be "We don't copy Google's results. Of course we do." http://goo.gl/8VoDJ vs. http://goo.gl/yW4Ia about 10 hours ago via web Retweet Reply Google then decided to escalate things further by using their official blog to very directly call Microsoft out with a post titled: Microsoft's Bing uses Google search results—and denies it . I mean, just think about that for a second. Then, about an hour ago, there was this great exchange on Twitter in response to Dave Winer posting a link to the original story: @davewiner Dave Winer Oooops looks like Google caught Microsoft cheating in search. http://r2.ly/853k about 9 hours ago via web Retweet Reply @fxshaw Frank X. Shaw @ davewiner no they didn't. about 9 hours ago via Seesmic Desktop Retweet Reply @davewiner Dave Winer @ fxshaw The evidence is pretty convincing about 9 hours ago via web Retweet Reply | |
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