| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.03.2013 | Formspring, The Pioneering ‘Ask Me Anything’ Anonymous Q&A Platform, Is Shutting Down | Formspring, a startup that helped pioneer the “ask me anything” format of anonymous Q&A online, is shutting down. The San Francisco company announced the news in a blog post this afternoon.
The closure of the Q&A platform will occur... |
| 17.01.2013 | Who Should—and Shouldn’t—Become A Tech Investor? Freestyle Weighs In | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a former entrepreneur in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of investments.
Or to put it another way: If you’re a 30-ye... |
| 27.06.2012 | Ask.fm Claims It’s Overtaken Q&A Giant Formspring – What’s Going On Here? | After Formspring’s recent pivot away from the personal end of the social Q&A space, you’d be forgiven for thinking that there’s little growth left in this narcissistic of all mediums. But if European competitor Ask.fm‘s numbers are to b... |
| 19.06.2012 | Formspring does a half-pivot, chasing the ‘interest’ trend | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Q&A site Formspring has added a few new featu... |
| 19.06.2012 | Formspring Relaunches As An Interest-Based Social Network | Q&A site Formspring is today announcing what the company says is its biggest news since its original launch back in 2009. Yes, Formspring has been overhauled. The company is shifting its focus from social Q&A, to a site that’s more ... |
| 07.02.2012 | Pinterest Hits 10 Million U.S. Monthly Uniques Faster Than Any Standalone Site Ever -comScore | It’s beautiful, it’s addictive, and now Pinterest is having its glorious hockey stick moment. TechCrunch has attained exclusive data from comScore showing Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, crossing the 10 million... |
| 08.12.2011 | Mobile Q&A Opinionaided rebrands as Thumb | Opinion site that captures sentiment and trend information hopes to get brands in the mix
Giving a thumbs up is a modest gesture that can, at times, carry significant meaning. If you ever watched Gladiator, you'll know when the emperor give... |
| 06.12.2011 | Fixing Skyrim would take a lot of time, according to developer | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Bethesda Softworks is undoubtedly looking at numerous game of the year awards for their epic role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Sky... |
| 01.12.2011 | Formspring’s Social Evolution Continues, Now Connects Users Based On Interests | Earlier this month, the Q&A-cum-social-networking service Formspring launched its first ever user Directory, with the intent on better highlighting the most popular users within a given category like “Music,” “Sports” or “Fashion.” Toda... |
| 14.11.2011 | Formspring Launching A “Favorites” Directory, Starts Looking Like A Real Social Network | Formspring is launching its first user Directory later today in an effort to better highlight the more popular and famous users of its online social Q&A service. The directory will organize users into categories like Music, Comedy, Spor... |
| 27.09.2011 | Formspring Adds Photo Support To Its Q&A Service | Today, Formspring is adding support for photos to its Q&A service in an update the company is touting as the biggest in the nearly two years since its launch. With the addition, Formspring users will be able to post a photo both when as... |
| 13.09.2011 | Formspring Adds Photo Sharing in New iOS App | Formspring, the ask-me-anything Q&A social network, has just launched its first native iOS app. The big new feature for Formspring is photo sharing, which is incorporated into both questions and answers from the app. The iOS interface b... |
| 13.09.2011 | Formspring gives its 26M users a mobile app (finally) & photo responses | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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Popular Q&A site Formspring launched an iPhone app this morning so users can ... |
| 10.09.2011 | The Fragmented Mobile Information Race | Mobile devices are shifting many individual computing behaviors, perhaps none more significant than how we search for and receive information. Right now, it’s moving at warp speed. In between the time I finish this draft and its posted, it’... |
| 31.08.2011 | Impermium Launches Social Spam Index; Finds That Up To 40 Percent Of Online IDs Are Fake | In June, we covered the launch of Impermium, a young startup aimed at zapping the Internet’s social spam wherever it hides. Not only is the startup bringing the heat to user generated spam like spammy comments, hacked accounts, and fraudule... |
| 15.08.2011 | Google Is Now The Proud Owner Of Android.me | It’s not exactly Googorola-sized news, but I just noticed that Google has very recently gained ownership over the domain Android.me (not worth linking as it is currently not in use – yet?).
Now, Google may have simply asked – or forced – th... |
| 10.08.2011 | Love-life improvement site TheIceBreak aims to heat up existing relationships | How do you feel about your relationship over the last seven days?
That’s the first question you’ll answer on the just-launched love-life improvement site TheIceBreak. Consider it a Formspring for couples.
TheIceBreak poses a daily icebreake... |
| 11.07.2011 | Formspring's Marketing Moment Comes With Its First Promoted Question Of The Day | Social Q&A site Formspring, where more than 3 billion questions have been answered so far, had a marketing moment today. For the first time, the Question of the Day was a promoted question: “What do you think would happen if apes took o... |
| 28.06.2011 | Q&A social network Formspring.me reaches 25M users | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Formspring.me, a social network where users can a... |
| 28.06.2011 | Q&A social network Formspring.me reaches 25M users | Formspring.me, a social network where users can ask and reply to questions, now has over 25 million registered members, the company announced on its blog.
Over 3.4 billion total questions have been answered by Formspring users, the 18-month... |
| 28.06.2011 | Is Google Asking The Wrong Question With Social? | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah.
Today’s soft-launch of Google’s new s... |
| 10.06.2011 | Tumblr's New Messaging System: Another Way To Avoid My Evil Email Inbox | I hate email. Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate email. There’s just too much of it. It’s always flowing in. It never stops. And it’s getting worse.
As time goes on, even if inbox overload isn’t a problem for you right now, it will be.... |
| 03.05.2011 | Q&A Site Formspring Continues to Focus on Building Community | On the heels of a site redesign in early April, the popular Q&A site Formspring has launched a new feature designed to help users more easily find and compare the answers from all their friends.
Aptly titled All Responses, the new featu... |
| 25.02.2011 | The Kids Are All Right. Formspring Pageviews Are Up 65 Percent Since September | Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen a blooming of new Q&A sites which are both social and informative. While Quora gets a lot of our attention here at TechCrunch because of the quality of the answers it generates, it is still tiny... |
| 17.01.2011 | Weeks After Going Viral, Threewords.me Is Up For Sale | That was fast.
A few weeks ago you may have come across a site called Threewords.me with a very simple premise: invite your friends and online followers to describe you with three words. It’s about as simple as they come, but the site manag... |
| 12.01.2011 | Formspring Collects $11.5M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Francisco-based Formspring, part of a small crop of Web-based question-and-answer services that has grown up over the past two years, said today that it has raised $11.5 m... |
| 12.01.2011 | Formspring Receives $11.5M in Series A Financing | Formspring, a San Francisco, CA-based service that allows people to share personal responses, has received $11.5m in Series A financing.
The round, which was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Baseline Ventures and other inve... |
| 12.01.2011 | Q&A site Formspring scores $11.5M | Formspring, the online question/answer service, has raised $11.5 million in Series A financing, bringing its total to $14 million. Now all the company has to do is figure out how to make money.
“$14 million is a ton of money, especially for... |
| 11.01.2011 | Formspring Closes $11.5 Million Round, Launches 'Respond' Button | One of the biggest phenomena of last year was Formspring, a social site that lets you invite your friends to “Ask you anything”. The site launched in November 2009 and rose from obscurity to some 40 million monthly uniques at its peak (it’s... |
| 28.10.2010 | Cambridge Network helps to lead Local Enterprise Partnership as bid gets the green light | Cambridge Network helps to lead Local Enterprise Partnership as bid gets the green light
28-10-2010
The Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership (GC GP LEP) bid has today (Thursday 28th October 2010) been given th... |
| 28.10.2010 | Green light for the LEP - what does it mean for Cambridge Network members? | Green light for the LEP - what does it mean for Cambridge Network members?
28-10-2010
As the Greater Cambridge/ Greater Peterborough region learns of its successful bid to form a Local Enterprise Partnership, Cambridge Network's CEO Matt Sc... |
| 25.10.2010 | How Hunch’s CEO just slapped a “For Sale” sign on his company | We haven’t heard much about Hunch, the once-buzzy recommendations site based in New York — and what we’ve heard hasn’t been good. So it was interesting to read CEO Chris Dixon’s response to an anonymous questioner who asked why Hunch was bu... |
| 14.10.2010 | HowMutch Will Brands Pay To Get You To Answer Questions About Their Products? | Social Q&A sites seem to be springing up all over the place these days. There’s Quora and Formspring, and even the way you train Hunch is by answering a series of personal questions. But those are all general purpose question sites. A b... |
| 07.10.2010 | Facebook Growing Fast in Brazil, but Orkut Still far Ahead | Google’s social network Orkut never quite caught on in most countries, but it remains the most popular social network in Brazil. According to new data from comScore, Orkut remains safely ahead of Facebook there, with 36 million unique visit... |
| 29.09.2010 | A Disrupt Break: Angels Hold "Office Hours" on Formspring Today | In Silicon Valley fortunes can change in a matter of weeks. Last year’s awkward nobody entrepreneur could be today’s mogul, angel or VC. This always creates an interesting social tension: Suddenly the guy who was skulking around coffee shop... |
| 27.09.2010 | Real-time Questions Get Answered with Replyz | While Google and Yahoo Answers still offer a place to pose your questions, new Q&A products and forums have been popping up like dandelions in an open meadow lately. Some of the most recent products include Aardvark, which sold to Googl... |
| 26.08.2010 | Formspring Ramps Up Social Features As It Passes 16 Million Members | Formspring, the Q&A service that lets users invite their friends to “ask them anything”, has had a wild year: since officially launching last November, the service has skyrocketed to over 16 million registered members, 40 million monthl... |
| 08.07.2010 | With Debut of Web Apps Q&A Site, Stack Exchange Perfects Automated Site Launch Process | A site called “Web Applications” (beta) is the newest addition to the Stack Exchange network, a service that powers popular tech Q&A sites including StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser.com and StackApps. Like the others before it, the... |
| 14.06.2010 | As Formspring.me Passes 700 Million Questions, Brands Start Taking Notice | Back in January, I wrote about a new Q&A service called Formspring.me that allowed users to have their friends “ask them anything”: sign up for a profile, and anyone can submit a question that you can choose to answer at your discretion... |
| 10.04.2010 | myYearbook's Chatter Driving 1 Million Updates A Day, 1 Billion Page Views A Month | Many people have never heard of myYearbook, a social network that skews pretty young (half of its members are teenagers). But it’s got a substantial audience, with around 55.7 million visits and 4.3 million uniques a month, according to com... |
| 10.04.2010 | Developers In Denial: The Seesmic Case Study | Way back in February the writing was on the wall: Twitter would compete directly with third party developers who were creating Twitter apps. Twitter investor Fred Wilson reiterated that threat just a few days ago when he said most of the ap... |
| 24.03.2010 | With Version 2, Lissn Quiets The Noise And Focuses On Individuals. But Is It Too Quiet? | When Lissn launched at TechCrunch50 this past year, it had what seemed to be a hot basic premise: Twitter meets Google Wave. Unfortunately, as time has proven, Google Wave has yet to catch on in a meaningful way, as it’s too noisy for most ... |
| 22.03.2010 | ChaCha see ChaCha do | Mobile Q&A company launches social queries, goes head to head with Formspring.me.
Last week, we wrote about Formspring.me’s new funding and the hoax that helped launch it into the mainstream. The company lets users set up a simple profi... |
| 19.03.2010 | Formspring.me: Another Startup Packing Its Bags for Silicon Valley [UPDATED] | News broke yesterday that popular online Q&A startup Formspring.me had raised some $2.5 million in venture funding and would be relocating to Silicon Valley from Indianapolis. As a user and fan of the service, I am happy to see the comp... |
| 18.03.2010 | Formspring.me takes off with $2.5M and a hoax | Online Q&A site attracts heavy-hitting investors, millions of users in under 4 months. I’ve used Formspring quite a bit for event registration purposes. The site lets anyone create an online form, and has robust data-collection backend.... |
| 12.03.2010 | Twitter helps spread Formspring.me hoax | Twitter is abuzz today with a story attributed to popular news wire service The Associated Press. The new trending topic spotlights Formspring.me, a social network that lets users create profiles to post and answer questions anonymously, an... |
| 08.03.2010 | Tweetie Two For Mac Approaches (Picture) | Last October, developer Loren Brichter set the App Store on fire with the sequel to his brilliant iPhone Twitter client, Tweetie. It looks like he’s about to do the same to the Mac.
Brichter sent out a series of teasing tweets today indicat... |
| 06.01.2010 | "Inspired" By Formspring, Tumblr Launches Nearly Identical "Ask Me" | Remember Formspring.me, the service we covered two days ago that makes it easy to conduct your own online Q&A with the web at large? Popular microblogging service Tumblr has just launched a new feature called “Ask Me” that does the exac... |
| 04.01.2010 | On Formspring.me, Anyone Can Ask You Anything. And You'll Love It. | No matter what anyone says, one of the most fundamentally appealing qualities of social sites like Twitter and Facebook is the notion that people actually care what you’re doing or sharing. When someone ‘Likes’ your photo album on Facebook,... |
| 04.01.2010 | Anonymity, Self-Reference & Q&A: Formspring.me’s Winning Combination for the Social Web | FormSpring.com is a data collection and management system with a particular emphasis in online forms, registrations and surveys. An enterprise-level system, FormSpring.com might seem rather dry to anyone but an online retailer or event coor... |
| - | ElaEle: Rede social quer ajudar homens e mulheres entenderem o sexo oposto | Os homens perguntam, elas respondem. E vice-versa. Para quem está passando o dia dos namorados sozinho ou acompanhado, refletindo sobre o eterno mistério do sexo oposto, a ElaEle, uma nova rede social brasileira, pode ser uma boa.
Criada po... |
| - | Formspring закрывается | Сервис Formspring закрывается, об этом в официальном блоге заявил CEO проекта. О причинах закрытия в сообщении Ade Olonoh не сообщается.
Напомним, Formspring был запущен в 2009 году и был пионером "Ask Me Anything" формата. В наст... |
| - | Сервис вопросов и ответов Formspring станет социальной сетью по интересам | Сервис вопросов и ответов Formspring станет социальной сетью по интересам
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Онлайн сервис вопросов и ответов Formspring, который был основан в 2009 году, смещает фокус развития и становится социаль... |
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