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| Jan 21, 2025 | Postie Appoints Phil Davis as Senior Vice President of Sales | Postie, the leading innovator of direct mail automation solutions, has named Phil Davis as its Senior Vice President (SVP) of Sales. The appointment marks a key milestone for the company’s dedication to helping the world’s largest brands de... |
| Jun 1, 2012 | New Pipl API Pulls in a Staggering – and Creepy – Amount of People Data Into Your Apps | People search engine Pipl‘s people search API is now out of beta and open to all developers. The API can be used to bring a variety of information about an individual, from social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn to government resources ... |
| Apr 26, 2012 | Here Are 20 Companies Who Sell Your Data (& How To Stop Them) | Meet the data brokers. There’s a whole industry full of companies who make their money buying and selling our personal information. The FTC is working on busting this dark racket wide open, but in the meantime, they’re out there. Who are th... |
| Feb 7, 2012 | LinkedIn Eats Rapportive: Let’s Hope the Magic Lives On | Several years ago, I spoke on a panel at an advertising industry conference with Om Malik and Michael Arrington. Arrington, my former employer, was bored by the conversation and mocked me throughout it. One of the last questions we were ask... |
| Sep 8, 2011 | An explosion of entrepreneurship at Demo Day 2011 | Like a hungry mob at an all you can eat buffet, people gorged themselves on entrepreneurship information Wednesday at the third annual Capital Factory Demo Day 2011.
The day-long event at the AT&T Conference Center in downtown Austin ki... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Exclusive: RapLeaf announces $1M fund for data personalization apps | Data-mining startup RapLeaf has created a new $1 million fund for applications interested in using its data services for personalization, the company announced today.
RapLeaf’s data collection methods have raised privacy concerns in the pas... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | LinkedIn’s European competitor Viadeo opens API, brings developer contest to US | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Viadeo, a European business social network, opened its public application programming interface (API) in the United States today. The c... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Exclusive: RapLeaf announces $1M fund for data personalization apps | 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!
Data-mining startup RapLeaf has created a new $1 ... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | Start-Up News: Foursquare, Twitter, GroupMe 3.0; Ventures, Jobs, Reprisings | CHECKING UP. GroupMe 3.0 is out, and–what is this thing? We hardly recognize it anymore! GroupMe has taken group messaging to the next level with direct messaging, web chat and questions (ask a question, spark a conversation–in beta).
Fours... |
| Jul 15, 2011 | Rapportive, Possibly the Web’s Best Lightweight CRM Tool, Gets Even Better | One year ago this Spring I wrote a blog post titled “Stop What You Are Doing & Install This Plug-In: Rapportive” and for many of us who did, Gmail plug-in Rapportive is now an essential daily tool. The service displays social media prof... |
| Mar 31, 2011 | Why I decided to work at a startup after graduating | Two years ago, as a Harvard senior studying economics and math, I was faced with the inevitable decision — what to do after graduating. I was fortunate to have great options, including offers of direct admission to business school at Harvar... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Googlers Buy More Junk Food Than Microsofties (And Why Rapleaf Is Creepy) | If you weren’t creeped out by data-mining startup Rapleaf after reading about their ways in a relatively unsettling Wall Street Journal article published last October (“The San Francisco startup says it has 1 billion e-mail addresses in its... |
| Mar 6, 2011 | LaunchRock Wants to Give A Boost to Startups Launching at SXSW | The anticipation in the tech world is palpable, as SXSW Interactive kicks off at the end of the week. We expect to see lots of startups launch over the course of the event, and LaunchRock, the creator of viral launch pages for startups is p... |
| Dec 26, 2010 | The Unwelcome Return of Platform Dependencies | Editor’s Note: The following guest post is written by a Silicon Valley CEO. Frank Dupree is a pen name
In the late 1990s, the rise of the browser was supposed to usher in an era of unprecedented opportunity for startups. A great part of tha... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | The Acquisition of Etacts and Email as a Platform | Etacts, an email add-on that layers social network profiles, conversation history and other relationship management information on top of your email conversations, announced abruptly this morning that it is shutting down its service, deleti... |
| Nov 27, 2010 | The Myth Of Serendipity | Editor’s note: Henry “Hank” Nothhaft, Jr. is the co-founder and CMO of Trapit, a virtual personal assistant for Web content still in private beta that was incubated out of SRI and the CALO project (as was Siri, the conversational search eng... |
| Nov 24, 2010 | Your Income, Home Ownership & Parenthood Status Now Available as an API | Personal information aggregation service Rapleaf announced to its developers today that it now offers “lifestyle” information like home ownership status, occupation and income corresponding with any email or postal address in its database.
... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | LOLApps Back On Facebook After UID Issues | This weekend Facebook shut down some applications that were found by the WSJ to have been sharing Facebook User IDs (a unique profile identifier Facebook uses in its APIs) to independent ad networks and internet tracking services such as Ra... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | Zynga implicated in Facebook privacy breach | A WSJ investigation finds that all top ten apps have been transmitting user data to ad agencies
Facebook is caught up in another privacy imbroglio. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday morning that the ten most popular apps on Facebook h... |
| Oct 17, 2010 | WSJ reports Facebook apps — including banned LOLapps games — transmitted private user data | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Wall Street Journal reported that its investigation of Facebook apps found that many of the most popular titles have been transmitt... |
| Oct 17, 2010 | WSJ reports Facebook apps — including banned LOLapps games — transmitted private user data | The Wall Street Journal reported that its investigation of Facebook apps found that many of the most popular titles have been transmitting identifying user information to dozens of advertising and internet tracking companies.
The issue affe... |
| Mar 4, 2010 | Stop What You Are Doing & Install This Plug-In: Rapportive | Cambridge UK startup Rapportive has released a Firefox and Chrome extension that will replace the ads in your Gmail with photos, biographic data and social media links, including a live display of recent Tweets, for whoever you’re correspon... |
| Dec 27, 2009 | Privacy Theater: Why Social Networks Only Pretend To Protect You | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Rohit Khare, the co-founder of Angstro. Building his latest project, social address book Knx.to, gives him a deep familiarity with the privacy policies of all the major social networks.... |
| Dec 17, 2009 | How to hire A-Players | Actively recruiting passive candidates can be better that referrals
Hunting for the ideal job candidate? Ask any hiring managers and they will very likely give you a ranking system for would-be hires. Lower on the list are those actively lo... |
| Nov 18, 2009 | Common traits of A-Players | An unscientific observation of what A-Players have in common
We often talk about this elusive "A-Player" - a person that everyone wants to hire but someone people can rarely find. In this article we'll attempt to discuss how to sp... |
| Nov 18, 2009 | Gmail Users Better-Connected, More Likely to Tweet than Members of other Webmail Services | The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of the study, gender and age data was examined and revealed som... |
| Sep 4, 2009 | The more Twitter followers you have… | …the more followers you’re bound to attract, according to Rapleaf study
As Twitter continues to grow, it appears that something else is also expanding: the gap between the most popular users and everyone else.
The latest study from Rapleaf ... |
| Sep 3, 2009 | As Twitter Continues To Grow, Popular Users Widen The Gap | Twitter keeps on growing like a weed, and there seems to be no stopping the much-hyped, heavily scrutinized Silicon Valley startup in its quest to turn its popular micro-sharing service into a veritable pulse of the planet. Twitter passed 5... |
| Aug 22, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: 10 Exciting Web Apps, Top Twitter Clients, State of Netbook Market, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we poll our readers on their 3 most exciting web apps or services, analyze the latest Twitter client stats, report on MySpace’s acquisition of F... |
| Aug 20, 2009 | Twitter still number one place to tweet | Recent study by RapLeaf finds users prefer to tweet from the official site
With all the third-party Twitter clients out there that make the tweeting experience so much cooler, you figure the actual Twitter site would barely get touched - no... |
| Jun 23, 2009 | Ever Wondered What The Most Common Names On Facebook Are? Here's A List | With well over 200 million registered users, Facebook is undeniably a giant on the web, and one that is sitting on an enormous amount of raw data about individuals and demographically selected groups at that. While private profiles are not ... |
| Jun 23, 2009 | Engineers Are The Best Deal – So Stock Up On Them | This guest post is written by Auren Hoffman, the CEO of Rapleaf and an active angel investor. Auren argues that productivity gains among software engineers far outstrips pay increases. His advice? Stock up on engineers, it’s a competitive a... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | The deep Web and the future of finding things | The discovery landscape
Wize Deep Web
A recent article in the New York Times about the “Deep Web” got us thinking about the future of finding things. At Wize, we hold a few things dear when it comes to search and discovery. They are differe... |
| Sep 4, 2008 | MeeID: A Simple App For Your Online Identity | Throughout the years, many sites have attempted to organize our online identities. There are people search tools like Spock, Naymz, and Rapleaf, to name a few that can locate your profile across the web and display for others to see. More r... |
| Jun 18, 2008 | From MySpace to Facebook to Flickr to LinkedIn, here’s looking at you | Rapleaf, a company that provides people-focused search services to corporate clients, spends a lot of time mining social networking data. It has just released a survey studying the social networking habits of the 49.3 million people it has ... |
| Feb 25, 2008 | How To Manage Your Online Reputation | You’ve spent a lot of time building up your reputation and image both online and off, so it’s important to make sure that someone isn’t out there dragging it through the mud. The latest tool for reputation management is Trackur, but its bot... |
| Oct 11, 2007 | No, Really – How Was it For You? Kumquat Launches Simple Performance Review Service | Portland, Oregon based Kumquat went live today in a limited beta release. The service is a very light-weight but well thought-out tool for gathering self-initiated performance reviews in any field. Account registration will be open for the ... |
| Jan 29, 2007 | Nobody Knows You’re A Dog 2.0 | Written by Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb
and edited by Richard MacManus
On the internet it is easy to pretend to be somebody else.
DonÄôt like your name, adopt a new one. DonÄôt like the way you look,
Photoshop your picture. Think you are to... |
| Jan 26, 2007 | The Granular Web | Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus
OpenID, RapLeaf, Amazon S3, Amazon
EC2, Undisposable. All of these services have
one thing in common – they make web development more granular. By granular, we mean they
are making web ... |
| Jan 4, 2007 | Valley networker Auren Hoffman’s reputation on the line | Auren Hoffman is one of the Silicon Valley’s most connected people. For a while, he made his living with his Rolodex, hooking people up through his firm Stonebrick.
Last year, he started a company called RapLeaf, designed to keep track of y... |
| Nov 22, 2006 | Why big high tech companies are losing the talent war | [Disclosure: Auren works at Rapleaf, a startup, and is thus biased towards startups.]
Big companies are losing their “A” players and they’re struggling to attract “B” players. In an industry where everything is about people, large tech comp... |
| Nov 10, 2006 | DormItem: Regional College Classifieds in Rails | DormItem is a newly launched online classified ads service that searches not one college, but listings from colleges in the surrounding geographic area of wherever you attend. It’s a nicely designed site that includes integration of the Rap... |
| Oct 23, 2006 | MySpace hijacking, ePlanet’s fund, SpaceShipOne & Anderson’s abundance | (Updated with clarification from ePlanet)
Myspace loose with email confirmation — Did you know that someone can sign up as you on MySpace, using your email address?
If you’re not already using MySpace under the email account, then someone c... |
| Sep 7, 2006 | The oncoming video ads movement | (Editor’s note: Back by popular demand is Auren Hoffman, whose last post about the Black Hat Tax has been the favorite among all the contributors so far at SiliconBeat/VentureBeat. This time Auren, who runs a comany called Rapleaf, writes a... |
| Aug 29, 2006 | The Black Hat Tax on consumer Internet businesses | (Editors note: Auren Hoffman, who runs a Silicon Valleys start-up called RapLeaf, writes below about the Black Hat Tax on consumer Internet businesses. It is timely, because spam is as bad as ever. Yesterday, it emerged that Comcast even bl... |
| Aug 11, 2006 | Roundup: Last Google Jet hearing, VC China wars, Capton, Vysr, Wablet, more | Google co-founders have settled with the guy who spilled beans on the secretive Google Jet — A final hearing is scheduled for Aug. 29. Details here in the Mercury News story today.
Draper Fisher Jurvetson reappears in China — After a rocky ... |
| Aug 8, 2006 | Web 2.0: The 24 Minute Documentary | A couple of weeks ago Michael Arrington got together with a number of startup CEOs and executives to video a discussion about Web 2.0. Participating in the discussion were Aaron Cohen (Bolt), Scott Milener and Steven Lurie (Browster), Keith... |
| Jun 11, 2006 | Rapleaf, the e-commerce reputation manager, raises ~$1M to take on eBay | Rapleaf, the service that wants to give eBay a run for its money by making peoples’ e-commerce reputations portable across the Web, finished raising its first round of funding last week.
The round, just south of a million dollars, was led b... |
| May 17, 2006 | eBay Bans Rapleaf Links | Rapleaf is a new feedback and reputation startup that aims to be the open version of eBay feedback. For more information, see my initial profile and launch post. Rapleaf is a product that I strongly endorse and believe in (and I asked for s... |
| May 7, 2006 | Rapleaf is Now Live | Rapleaf’s open feedback system (more about it here) went live late Saturday night, and already has hundreds of users who’ve left thousands of feedback posts on others.
CEO Auren Hoffman promises the APIs for the core Rapleaf functions somet... |
| Apr 24, 2006 | Networker Hoffman launches Rapleaf — to track your reputation beyond eBay | Auren Hoffman, a professional networker in Silicon Valley, has launched Rapleaf, a company that keeps track of your reputation for reliability as you buy and sell things online.
He is going after one of the more valuable monopolized assets ... |
| Apr 23, 2006 | Rapleaf to Challenge Ebay Feedback | eBay’s feedback system is, arguably, their most valuable asset. It provides the grease necessary to make complete strangers comfortable enough to buy and sell from each other. But it’s a closed system – only eBay transactions can affect a u... |
