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| Jan 7, 2012 | Engineering Serendipity | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Catherine Cook is the co-founder of MyYearbook, a social network for meeting new people.
When John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale reach for the same pair of black gloves in the movie Serendipity, they meet and f... |
| Dec 16, 2011 | MyYearbook Hits Half A Million Daily Mobile Users, Launches iPad App | It’s hard being a social network not called Facebook, but myYearbook isn’t one of those erstwhile rivals being sold off for assets. Instead, it’s been seeing strong mobile growth and revenue growth over the last year, building on its $100 m... |
| Apr 23, 2011 | Q&A With Geoff Cook: How We Solved The Chatroulette Porn Problem | At the end of last year, social networking site myYearbook shifted its focus more towards games and introduced a live video chat feature which could have completely backfired. But instead of turning into the next Chatroulette, the site has ... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | VCs see tough and exciting landscape for game startups | The game industry has gotten a lot of love from venture capitalists lately. For many years, VCs invested a small amount of money into games compared to other hot investments such as social media. But in the age of Facebook and mobile gaming... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | VCs see tough and exciting landscape for game startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The game industry has gotten a lot of love from venture capitalists lately. For many years, VCs invested a small amount of money into g... |
| Mar 31, 2011 | myYearbook Bets Big On Android With Acquisitions Of Five Apps, FlockEngine | Social networking company myYearbook this morning announced it has acquired five new Android apps to support its mobile strategy and grow its team. In addition, the company acquired FlockEngine, which powers multiplayer games on Android pho... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | HeyZap Goes After Social Discovery, Launches Check-in For Mobile Games | Heyzap, a monetization and distribution platform for online casual games, announced today that it’s going mobile. Launching a social discovery application for mobile games on Android, the startup will be bringing the 1.6 million users it ha... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | In Pictures: How To Make $1 Million Before You Graduate | |
| Nov 29, 2010 | MyYearbook Introduces Realtime Social Gaming With Video Chat | In general, the key driver of social networking so far is games on Facebook. But most of those games aren’t social in the way that playing Monopoly or cards with your friends and family over the holidays is social. MyYearbook, which is a sm... |
| Oct 10, 2010 | TC Teardown: 13 Ways To Get To $10 Million In Revenues (Part I) | After last month’s TechCrunch Disrupt, and to provide a business companion to the popular “Lean Startup” customer development methodology, this TC Teardown focuses not on how one specific company makes money but rather seeks to provide a br... |
| Aug 7, 2010 | Outside the Echo Chamber: Growing A Startup In New Hope, PA | This guest post is written by Geoff Cook, cofounder and CEO of social networking site myYearbook. It describes the challenges of running a startup from New Hope, PA — a small town whose other notables include Chris Fralic of First Round Cap... |
| Apr 10, 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... |
| Feb 3, 2010 | Startup Roundup: Invite Media real-time ad buys, ListenLogic social media monitoring, Happy Cog not bored | Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve... |
| Jan 28, 2010 | MyYearbook Rolls Out Its Crowdsourced Redesign | This week, social networking site MyYearbook launched a revamped design, changing some key UI elements to better reflect the way people use the site. One of the more interesting points of the redesign isn’t its appearance though — it’s how ... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | Startup Roundup: Lifehacker has trust issues with Lose It Or Lose It, myYearbook donates to Haiti | Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | IMVU and myYearbook set up virtual currency exchange | 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!
Two successful online sites are getting together ... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | IMVU and myYearbook set up virtual currency exchange | Two successful online sites are getting together to encourage their users to adopt the other’s services. IMVU and myYearbook are setting up a virtual currency exchange so that users from either service can exchange currency between the site... |
| Aug 30, 2009 | Why Don't Teens Tweet? We Asked Over 10,000 of Them. | This guest post is written by Geoff Cook, cofounder and CEO of social networking site myYearbook. Everything about Twitter is looking up these days, except for a few pesky uptime issues of course. But a number of recent reports also suggest... |
| Aug 25, 2009 | myYearbook Finds Profitability In Hyper-Competitive Social Networking World | At best people consider myYearbook an afterthought in the social networking world – they weren’t even included in our 2009 Social Network valuation model because of a lack of available traffic data.
And yet…the company has managed to achiev... |
| Aug 13, 2009 | Philly’s Freshest: DreamIt Ventures Graduates Class of Ten Startups | Philadelphia-based early-stage investment outfit DreamIt Ventures is in the business of finding, funding, and accelerating great startups.
Like many similar programs we’ve covered in the past, DreamIt, now in its second year, sees startup f... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | Friday Q&A: Catherine Cook of myYearbook.com | Earlier this month, New Hope-based myYearbook.com founder Catherine Cook was honored as the number one young entrepreneur in the country by paidContent, according to a press release.
Cook has been loved by media since she and brothers Dave ... |
| May 13, 2009 | Teen entrepreneur Catherine Cook says myYearbook’s Lunch Money adds up | There’s been a lot of talk about virtual currencies recently, with Facebook reportedly testing a payment system for third-party applications and MySpace considering something similar. Meanwhile, teen social network myYearbook is already mak... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | I Wish More People Bcc'd Us On Their Confidential Acquisition Emails | Yesterday myYearbook CEO Geoff Cook reached out to FunAdvice President Jeremy Goodrich to talk about a possible acquisition. Based on certain assumptions, Cook said, he’d be prepared to offer $125,000 cash up front, $25,000 in consulting fe... |
| Apr 23, 2009 | Meebo: Our chat service is working great for other sites | Do web users want instant messaging features tightly integrated into their favorite web sites? New data from instant message service Meebo suggests they do. The company introduced a white-label service last year so other sites could offer I... |
| Apr 23, 2009 | Meebo Brings Real-Time Chat To myYearbook | Meebo‘s Community IM is getting its biggest vote of confidence yet tonight, when it is deployed on popular social network myYearbook. Community IM is Meebo’s answer to Facebook Chat, offering publishers and social networks a way to introduc... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | Meebo’s chat advertising service expands to the web | Social networks like myYearbook and movie fan network Flixster already integrate Meebo’s white-label instant message service, Community IM , so their users can chat across instant message services without having to leave their sites. Those ... |
| Dec 13, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Top Web Products of 2008, Shopping 2.0, MySpaceID, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, we continued our Best Products 2008 series with two more lists: Best Consumer Web Apps and Best RSS/Syndication Products. We also reported on... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe | “Koobface” is the name of the Trojan worm that’s been making its way through the social networking site Facebook lately, but to the site’s users, it’s been simply known as “the Facebook virus.” That name will soon become a misnomer, though,... |
| Sep 17, 2008 | Magnitude Information Systems, random ergonomics company, invests in Kiwibox, teen social network | Kiwibox.com, an online magazine aimed at teenagers, is a remnant of the dot-com days. Unheralded and mostly undifferentiated, it launched in 1999 and somehow managed to slog its way through the bubble’s pop. In August, it relaunched with a ... |
| Jul 29, 2008 | Teen Social Network myYearbook Gets $13 Million | myYearbook, a social network for teenagers that launched in 2005, has raised $13 million in a Series B funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners, US Venture Partners, and First Round Capital. The new round brings the company’s total fun... |
| Jun 19, 2008 | Rumor: High school social network MyYearbook raising a “huge” round | Well, it might seem like the bloom is off the flower of social networking, as questions mount as to how these sites can become profitable businesses.
But MyYearbook, a fairly new but fast growing (for its size) social network that focuses o... |
| Jun 18, 2008 | Hitwise: Facebook gaining on MySpace in the U.S. | This just in from web analytics firm Hitwise. Social network MySpace continues to see the most U.S. traffic — 72.73 percent share of the social networking market — but that’s a slight drop from its April traffic and a five percent drop from... |
| Aug 12, 2007 | Glam to sign $1 billion ad deal — and draws critics | updated
In an era when Web advertising networks are red hot, Glam lays claim to being one of the hottest.
Focused on gathering up female-oriented Web sites, and then selling advertising on their pages, Glam says it is the fastest growing pr... |
| Jan 30, 2007 | Roundup: Bombs, don’t do Delaware, MySQL IPO & more | Correlation between bomb building and entrepreneurship? — Former PayPal chief executive Peter Thiel reportedly says four of six founders of the online payment service built bombs while in high school. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley venture capit... |
| Jan 25, 2007 | MyYearBook Gunning For Facebook Market | MyYearBook, founded in 2005, just announced a $4.1 million round venture financing led by U.S. Venture Partners and First Round Capital.
The site has a look and feel suspiciously similar to Facebook (with a little MySpace chaos thrown in). ... |