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| Feb 26, 2015 | Sprinklr buys social community provider Pluck off of Demand Media | Sprinklr wants to be a complete social media solution for big companies as it prepares to go public. So it went and bought “community” website component provider Pluck away from Demand Media — seven years after Demand acquired Pluck.
Sprink... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Sprinklr Acquires Austin-based Pluck | Sprinklr announced Thursday its acquisition of Pluck, an Austin-based social media company. |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Sprinklr buys social community provider Pluck off of Demand Media | 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!
Sprinklr wants to be a complete social media solu... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | Pluck Elaborates On Pinterest Integration | Demand Media released version 5.1 of its Pluck social media platform last Thursday, which features native Pinterest integration, and now a blog post from Pluck itself expands upon the “Pin It” button that was built into the platform’s photo... |
| Apr 27, 2012 | Pluck 5.1 Goes Live, Adds Pinterest Integration | If you run a business or a successful brand, chances are you use social media to get the word out about newest products and offers. There are multiple services out there that help brands get the most out of social media. Facebook just recen... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Mzinga’s Updates OmniSocial With Mobile Apps, New Control Panel, Better Analytics | Mzinga has announced the latest version of its SaaS enterprise social software suite OmniSocial, with improved control panel, expanded analytics, mobile apps and more. The new features were made available to customers yesterday.
Mzinga has ... |
| Aug 20, 2009 | Demand Media invests in CoveritLive | The partnership could add a real-time dimension to discovery widgets.
Demand Media announced a strategic partnership with, and investment in, live blogging platform CoveritLive, which will be integrated into Demand’s social media tools suit... |
| Jul 9, 2008 | Sequoia Capital Gets Serious About Fantasy | Challenge Games, the maker of fantasy fighting game Duels and fantasy baseball game Baseball Boss, has raised a $4.5 million first round of funding from Sequoia Capital. Sequoia’s Roelof Botha has also joined the Challenge Games board of di... |
| Mar 4, 2008 | Demand Media Buys Pluck for $75 million | Demand Media, a big buyer and operator of Internet domain name companies, completed negotiations to acquire Austin-based Pluck last night after about two months of negotiations. The price is not being disclosed but is rumored to be in the $... |
| Mar 4, 2008 | Demand Media plucks Pluck for $75 million | Demand Media, a company that has made a name for itself by buying up web properties may have landed its biggest catch yet — social media platform provider Pluck. It is a cash deal for $75 million TechCrunch was able to confirm.
Since it was... |
| Jan 8, 2008 | Pluck signs Guardian deal | Texas-based Pluck, the social media platform provider, has signed a deal with the UK’s Guardian Unlimited which will now use its SiteLife suite, which gives comment, rating, video, forum, blogs and social profile features to readers. The Gu... |
| Dec 11, 2007 | The Economist’s Oxford 2.0 Debates | I love The Economist magazine. 164 years old, intelligent reporting, objective to the point where the writers aren’t even allowed to display their names (poor bastards). This is serious journalism. It’s almost the opposite of what blogging ... |
| Aug 16, 2007 | USAToday's Social Network Experiment May Not Be Paying Off | When USAToday relaunched its site in March as a social network around news, I and others thought it was big news.
They integrated Pluck’s new Social Media Suite, a group of social networking products that a number of high profile news sites... |
| Aug 14, 2007 | 34 More Ways to Build Your Own Social Network | A few weeks ago we posted 9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network, a review of several hosted, do-it-yourself white label social networking solutions. Conspicuously missing from that round-up were many additional companies that specialize i... |
| Jul 2, 2007 | New Media Meets Old: A Look at Redesigned Mainstream News Sites | Newspaper circulation has been on the decline over the past few years, but the traffic to newspaper websites continues to rise. Interestingly, the area of newspaper websites that has experienced the most growth is blogs, perhaps proving tha... |
| Nov 22, 2006 | Flock Ditches Shadows Bookmarking Service | In a blog post yesterday, Flock’s Mike Dosik announced that they will no longer support the Shadows bookmarking service (Shadows is a product of Pluck) in the upcoming Flock 2.0 release. A number of angry Flock users commented on the post, ... |
| Nov 14, 2006 | Reuters Invests in Blog Aggregator | Aiming to take advantage of the rise of blogging, news wire service Reuters said Tuesday that it was investing $7 million in Web aggregator Pluck in exchange for an undisclosed stake in the Austin, Texas based company.
Reuters will offer Pl... |
| Mar 30, 2006 | The State of Online Feed Readers | Syndication is undoubtedly the heartbeat of the web 2.0 movement. A feed reader, the most common solution to consuming synidcated content, saves the user time by monitoring countless sites and sources and providing near real-time updates to... |
| Feb 18, 2006 | BlogBurst Can Save Big (print) Media | Pluck demo’d a new product called BlogBurst at our party last night. The service is live but Pluck has not pushed it out for publicity yet.
BlogBurst is a service that takes topical content from pre-approved blogs and provides it to publish... |
| Feb 16, 2006 | Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party Tomorrow | I’m pretty excited about the Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party tomorrow night starting at 7 pm.
We’ve been working hard for weeks to get the event together and, thanks to our sponsors, this should be the best one so far. A huge tent is u... |
| Jan 18, 2006 | Naked Conversations Party at TechCrunch | UPDATE: This event is now full. I apologize to everyone who did not get on the wiki list.
The fifth TechCrunch Meetup is on Friday, February 17, 2006 at the TechCrunch house in Atherton, California. We will celebrate the launch of Naked Con... |
| Oct 28, 2005 | Shadows 1.0 | I had an early peak at Shadows while it was still in beta, back in July. Shadows is a Pluck product.
Last week, Pluck took the beta tag off of Shadows and released v 1.0. Dave Panos, Pluck’s CEO, gave me a walk through of the new functional... |
| Sep 27, 2005 | Really Simple Web 2.0 | Mike
Arrington thinks Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 meme map should be simpler and Dave Winer responds,
saying it’s a complicated self-serving meme and pointing out that the map doesn’t include
RSS. I’ve been looking at the meme map closely, while... |
| Sep 16, 2005 | Pluck Expands Product Line | Pluck (previous profiles) is quietly building a very nice suite of web 2.0 products (see Shadows as well).
They announced two new products on September 12 – InSite RSS and InSite Blogging. Both products are aimed at online content publisher... |
| Aug 22, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (August 14-20) | Web 2.0 This Week
August 14 – 20
It’s late on Sunday night and I have so much to write about – this last week was absolutely amazing. I met so many interesting people at Bar Camp and added their blogs to my Pluck reader. I am now reading ov... |
| Aug 11, 2005 | Update – Pluck (new product releases) | Company: Pluck
Previous Profiles: July 16, 2005 (Pluck for Firefox), July 18, 2005 (shadows) Pluck Launched Three Product Updates:
Pluck announced three product updates on August 9, 2005 – Pluck 2.0 for Internet Explorer, Firefox and their ... |
| Jul 22, 2005 | Pluck Features the TechCrunch Feed | Pluck made TechCrunch a “featured feed” today (Link). For new subscribers (and there have been a bunch – thanks Pluck), we apologize for the slow review day today. We are still recovering from the AlwaysOn conference. Tomorrow’s weekly wrap... |
| Jul 21, 2005 | Update: AlwaysOn (Day Two) | Event: AlwaysOn
Previous Posts: July 19, 2005, July 20, 2005
What’s Happening?
Day Two at Always On was hectic. There are two channels here – the main room with panel discussions (see schedule below) and a side room with 5 minute CEO pitche... |
| Jul 18, 2005 | Profile – Shadows | Editor’s Note: Today is Social Bookmarking day, with profiles of Simpy and now Shadows. Simpy went out on TechCrunch today because they’ve been releasing new functionality that we really like. Shadows has only been out for a couple of weeks... |
| Jul 16, 2005 | Profile – Pluck (For Firefox) | Company: Pluck (For Firefox)
Launch Date: June 13, 2005 (2.0 Beta for Firefox)
What is it?
Pluck has a number of excellent products, including a web based RSS reader that competes with Bloglines, NewsGator and others (see our Bloglines v. N... |
| Jun 11, 2005 | FeedLounge Profile | Company: FeedLounge
What is it?
The FeedLounge web-based RSS reader alpha was announced on June 9, 2005. Feedlounge is the newest entrant into the increasingly crowded RSS Reader space. Feedlounge is web-based, like Bloglines, Pluck, Kinja ... |
| Jan 16, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 9-15 January 2005 | Time for a look back at the week that was in Web 2.0. In no particular order…
1. Gizmodo‘s 4-part interview with Bill
Gates ended with Bill
insisting that DRM is a good thing because it protects your medical records (or
something like that)... |