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Worried About IPO Filing Backlash, Groupon Surveys Consumer and Merchant Reaction

Groupon’s S-1 filing for an IPO last month certainly got a lot of ink.
Unfortunately, much of it was negative, focused on several controversial parts of the document. Most scrutinized were large slugs of money taken out of the social buying site by...
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How To Create A Vanity URL for Google Plus [Google+]


Your Google+ profile ID is a horrifying string of meaningless numbers. For example, mine is 111203177111013925515. Gah! Here's how to pretty it up. More »






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Yes, That Is a Cat on the Head of a Soon-to-Be Public Company CEO (And, Of Course, It's Groupon's Andrew Mason)

Do you think Zynga’s Mark Pincus would put a cat on his head for a national magazine shoot? Or LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner? Or, perish the thought, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook?
But the wacky stylings of Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason seem...
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Google+ Exec Is Now Really Plus One
Usually, I don’t fall for this kind of stuff, but the posting on Google+ by one of the key execs involved in its recent launch, Bradley Horowitz, is too adorkable to resist.
In a post tonight, he announced his engagement to fellow Google exec Irene...
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Google Is Going To Nuke Private Profiles Starting August 1st [Google]






Call it the Google+ effect. After July 31st, Google is going to delete all private profiles. There's no way to opt-out. If you want to keep your profile, you have to make at least your name and gender pub...
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The James Franco of the Internet -- Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square: The Full D9 Interview (Video)

Jack Dorsey has certainly had a multifaceted career, from plotting bike messenger routes to inventing microblogging giant Twitter to his newest payment start-up, Square.
He talked about all this and more in this interview with me at the ninth D: All Thin...
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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, the New Yorker and Women in Silicon Valley

Well-known New Yorker writer Ken Auletta has taken on Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in the magazine, with a largely glowing profile provocatively titled: “A Woman’s Place: Can Sheryl Sandberg Upend Silicon Valley’s Male-Dominated Culture?̶...
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Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Via a Cool IPO: The Delicious Irony of Myspace, Zynga and Owen Van Natta

How’s this for irony:
It was less than a year and a half ago that Owen Van Natta was ousted from his job as CEO of Myspace.
But last week — just as the failed social networking site sold for a paltry $35 million — Van Natta could have b...
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The Rise Of The Mobile Social Network
Right now, we are in the middle of the smartphone boom. Apple, Google and other mobile operating system vendors have provided the foundations for developers to launch innovative new services that add extra functionality to powerful new mobile phones.
Incr...
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QOTD: Keep Calm and Carry on, Twitter!
In any case, I hope Google+ succeeds. Given the blog posts saying this will kill Tumblr, Twitter, Foursquare, etc, you might wonder why I feel that way. Well first, I don’t think competitors kill companies and services. I think the vast majority of ...
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QOTD: That Said, Damning Google+ With Oldster Demo Praise
Google+ fills a void between public and private, it serves what is likely to be an older demo less interesting in hooking up or hipstering out and more interested in the social utility it provides.
A VC Fred Wilson, in later part of the same post on socia...
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Day 3: Zynga Holds Tech Reporters Hostage in Endless IPO Watch

No, really, today Zynga will file for an IPO.
Okay, tomorrow. Or the day after tomorrow.
Good lord, the S-1 filing for the online gaming phenom is going to drop in the middle of the Fourth of July BBQ, isn’t it?
In any case, I was interviewed on ...
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Here's the Zynga S-1 to Play With (Get It?!?)

Please peruse the contents of this Zynga IPO filing and let us know what you think about the financial deets about the social gaming site.
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Do I Really Have to Set Up Yet Another Social Network? [Social Networking]






My inbox is blowing up with email notifications from Google Plus. I launched Gmail this morning and the damn thing looked like it had been duck-raped by notifications about new followers and new comments ...
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Here's a Way To Get a Google+ Invite Now [Blip]






Dying to try Google+, but don't have the tech cred to get an invite? Don't worry, just find a Google+ user and ask them to share a post with you. You will be sent an email with a link to "Learn More about...
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Is Ready for His Close-Up: The Full D9 Interview (Video)

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is well known in Silicon Valley as a funny guy, but he trotted out some serious stats in this onstage interview with Walt Mossberg at the recent ninth D: All Things Digital conference.
Among the many topics: Acquisition interest ...
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What to Expect When You're Expecting a Zynga IPO (Insider Selling, Natch!)

So exactly how fecund is “FarmVille”?
If reports hold, we’ll all find out today what the yield is from the online gaming phenom Zynga, which will finally be filing its regulatory documents sometime today.
The S-1 for a public offering v...
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Employees Already Crowdsourcing a Myspace History

Apparently, there is no time lag anymore when it comes to telling the stories of epic fail on the Internet.
I got an email this afternoon from an anonymous Myspace employee who wrote about an interesting group-writing effort on Google Docs called “...
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The Death-Stare Stylings of Groupon's Andrew Mason: The Full D9 Interview (Video)
It is indeed true that when he did not want to answer any question I posed, Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason stared at me in hopes that laser beams would come out of his eyeballs.
They didn’t, but that does not mean it’s not worth watch...
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Exclusive: Myspace Sale Nearing End Today With Low $30M Price and Buyer You Never Heard Of

It was just supposed to be a three-hour tour, um, quick sale process!
But, like a storm-tossed ship looking for any safe harbor, the Myspace sale is still chugging along, with a deal that continues to be tossed around amongst low-paying and new lesser kn...
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This Is Google Changing All of Information Sharing [Video]






Google announced a new social sharing project today called Google+. It's among the company's most ambitious ventures to date, up there with Gmail, Android, Chrome and, yes, Search. It represents Google's...
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Facebook – The End Of The Beginning
Network by Dominique K (via Flickr)
Author: Claire Coady (@claireinclapham), Community Manager, BBH Labs
Last week Inside Facebook confirmed what we all know: that there are some users who’re just not that into Facebook. It is tempting to read this...
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The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Managing Your Facebook Privacy [Video]






Keeping your Facebook info private is getting harder and harder all the time—mostly because Facebook keeps trying to make it public. To help you out, we've created a comprehensive guide to keeping y...
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Yes, That's Activision's Kotick in "Moneyball" Movie Trailer

In a surprise cameo, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has gone Hollywood, appearing in a new trailer for the movie, “Moneyball.”
Based on the excellent Michael Lewis book about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its quirky manager Billy Beane...
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How Cute: Patent Suggests Apple Wants to Play Matchmaker for You and Nearby Strangers [Unconfirmed]






Imagine: You walk into a bar and instantly your iPhone tells you there are five people there who also like classic death metal and produce photography. Well Mac Rumors found an Apple patent that may do ju...
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Pandora Pulls a LinkedIn, As Tech-Starved Investors Gorge on IPO

How starved are investors for high-profile, high-growth Internet companies?
Hungry enough to lift the value of Pandora to just under $4 billion in an hour of trading for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “P.R...
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It's a So-Lo-Mo World, After All

Let it be said: For a digital information junkie such as myself, traveling abroad without any cellular or consistent Internet connection on my spanking new white Apple iPhone is agonizing.
To explain: I switched from AT&T to Verizon recently, in ord...
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Viral Video: Kashmir Stylings on Facebook Facial Recognition
Whatever side of the Facebook facial recognition debate you are on–is it privacy panic or a Big-Brother crisis?–this video by Forbes blogger Kashmir Hill is pretty clever.
Hill–who has perhaps one of the best bylines evuh–clearly h...
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Talk About Discounting: Groupon Gets a Pre-IPO Smackdown

It has only just announced its IPO plans, but Groupon is already getting a bitter taste of the brutality of being more public in an increasing series of negative reports aimed at its business prospects and execs.
That has included a spate of posts after ...
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Is There a Myspace Mafia, Too? Because Leaving Seems to Have Paid Off for Many Ex-Execs.

When the selling of Myspace winds down in the next week or so, it’ll probably attract a spate of comments about what a failure the whole social networking enterprise turned out to be.
And — especially when you recall what a Web phenom the soc...
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An Unlikely Pair (Me and Glamour Magazine, That Is) Tackle Women in Tech Conundrum This Fall

As readers of mine know, I write a semi-ranty post now and again about the lack of women in high-level tech jobs and on the boards of its major companies.
While things are a lot better in the digital industry than, say, in meat-packing, it is still a sl...
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Exclusive: Myspace in Advanced Deal Talks With Investor Group, Including Activision's Kotick

And then there was one?
According to sources close to the situation, News Corp. is down to one possible investing group in its quest to make lemonade out of the lemon that its Myspace social entertainment hub has become.
In the lastest of many scenarios ...
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Congressional Tweet-mageddon After Weiner Scandal
Were all the politicians in Congress taken up in some sort of rapture to a Twitter-free zone?
Nope, just the effect of the unfortunate nether-region photo tweet by Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, which has apparently caused others on Capitol Hill to stop ...
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Exclusive: Former Yahoo Brad Williams Takes Over as PR Head Honcho at Groupon

A Chicago boy is going home, as former Yahoo PR exec Bradford Williams takes over as VP of Global Communications at Groupon.
Williams, who worked at Yahoo during its ugly takeover fight with Microsoft, will need his even-keeled personality more than ever...
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Full D9 Videos Coming Soon to a Tech Web Site Near You

AllThingsD has gotten a lot of requests for the full interviews from the ninth D: All Things Digital conference, which took place last week.
It was indeed a crackerjack series of tech and media top players on stage, as well as a handful of amazing demos ...
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Computer Glitch Leads to Beer Stampede at Tesco [Beer]






Shopping at Tesco stores in Scotland became a nightmare when a stampede of people flooded stores looking for cheap beer. More »






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Here's the Groupon S-1 IPO Filing: What the Heck Is Adjusted CSOI?

Here is Groupon’s S-1 that it just filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In it, Groupon reveals a lot of information about who got what and what’s up with is financial performance.
One unusual metric the Chicago-based social buyi...
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Intel's Museum of Me Reminds Us Why We Shouldn't Use Facebook [Intel]






Ever wonder what a museum in your honor would look like if it used your Facebook profile as the basis for all the exhibits? More »






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Boxing, Branding and Social Enterprise: LUTA
Author: Anika Saigal (@anikasaigal), BBH Labs Intern
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We love businesses that turn our expectations positively on their head. Luke Dowdney, the founder of the charity Fight For Peace, did exactly that when he came in ...
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The Myspace Sweepstakes Drag on–Another Bid Deadline Today As Sale Deadline Looms

Yes, Myspace is still for sale.
But, no, no one has yet made a good enough bid–in other words, at the more than $100 million level its owner, News Corp., has sought–to knock out anyone else.
And who knows who will, as those working on the de...
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The Birds That Sing At Night
'Blackbird singing in the dead of night' (image by Dia, via Flickr)
Author: Jim Carroll, Chairman, BBH London
Sometimes recently I’ve woken up in the middle of the night and there have been birds singing in the street outside. Two or three o...
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The Birds That Sing At Night
'Blackbird singing in the dead of night' (image by Dia, via Flickr)
Author: Jim Carroll, Chairman, BBH London
Sometimes recently I’ve woken up in the middle of the night and there have been birds singing in the street outside. Two or three o...
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Social Marketing Is the New Black: Efficient Frontier's Karnstedt and Context Optional's Barenblat Discuss
Last week, I dropped by the offices of Context Optional in San Francisco to talk about its recently announced $50 million acquisition by Efficient Frontier.
Online performance marketing firm Efficient Frontier bought the social marketing software and serv...
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How to Import Your AIM Buddies into Google Talk [How To]






AIM has integrated their instant messaging service with Google Talk, allowing you to talk to your friends on both protocols with only one login. Here's how to import all your AIM buddies into Google Talk ...
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CafeMom Nabs Top Yahoo Sales Exec in New York
Ann Lundberg, a top sales exec at Yahoo’s New York office, is joining CafeMom as head of sales. The five-year Yahoo advertising veteran will focus on building the marketplace profile of the social-networking and community site aimed at mothers, whic...
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Exclusive: Zynga About to File for IPO

Zynga is poised to file for its initial public offering, according to sources close to the situation.
The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission could come as early as this week, or next week at the latest.
The move is not entirely unexpecte...
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Another Facebook Movie Coming–But This Time With AOL As Co-Star

You can chillax, Mark Zuckerberg–it’s not “The Social Network 2: The Winklevii Stroke, Stroke, Strooooke Back.”
In fact, it’s more like: “You’ve Got Social Network Mail.”
That’s because Facebook and A...
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You Will Know Jack–Square CEO Dorsey Added to D9 Speaker Lineup

With the mobile payments space rapidly heating up, we thought it would be a perfect time to add the person most responsible for that current disruption–Square CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey–to the speaker roster at the ninth D: All Things Dig...
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France Brings in Tout Le Web Before the G8 Summit

In an event ahead of the G8 summit this week, France’s power brokers are hosting a new event–called e-G8 and with the motto, “Internet: Accelerating Growth”–that starts tomorrow in Paris.
Set to be held at the Tuileries Gard...
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Demand CEO Richard Rosenblatt Talks Panda

Last week, after he turned in better-than-expected earnings and tried to explain to a worried Wall Street how the search algorithm changes at Google, called Panda, were significant but not devastating to his business, BoomTown had a short phone interview...
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