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FormSpring

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Name: FormSpring

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

Q&A Pioneer Formspring Says It's Been ‘Saved' From The Deadpool, Is Now Under New Management

Formspring, the pioneering Q&A site that allowed people to invite other internet users to "ask me anything" anonymously, is apparently back from the brink. In a tweet and a company blog post, Formspring announced that it has been "saved" and is now "under ... [Published Edit Hot - May 14 2013]

Entities: FormSpring

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Q&A Pioneer Formspring Says It's Been ‘Saved' From The Deadpool, Is Now Under New Management

Formspring , the pioneering Q&A site that allowed people to invite other internet users to “ask me anything” anonymously, is apparently back from the brink. In a tweet and a company blog post , Formspring announced that it has been “saved” and is now ... [Published TechCrunch - May 14 2013]

Entities: FormSpring, Social Network

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Q&A Pioneer Formspring Says It's Been ‘Saved' From The Deadpool, Is Now Under New Management

Entities: FormSpring, Social Network

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Parents: Stay abreast of children?s social networking

I appeared at a book event in Marin recently, and a few teenage girls attended with their mothers. One mother-daughter pair asked me about Instagram and what was appropriate to post. The eighth-grade girl thought that if people posted photos of themselves ... [Published Los Altos Town Crier - May 08 2013]

Entities: Instagram, Social Network, FormSpring, Innocuous

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Webvan

5 Signs Your Startup Hit a Plateau

The startup graveyard is full of companies that enjoyed initial success — call it beginner's luck. But often, good news can become the worst enemy of a growing company. We call this paradox "the plateau effect.“Everything we do in life follows this familiar ... [Published Mashable - May 06 2013]

Entities: Startup, Webvan, Beyond Oblivion, FormSpring, Posterous

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Tumblr Inc

Slideshow: 13 Worst Cases of Bullying

In May of 2011, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer of Buffalo, N.Y., posted a video to his Youtube account, proclaiming, "It gets better!" and encouraging other gay and bisexual teens to hold their heads up and seek the support of others. Then, on Sunday, September ... [Published TruTV.com - May 02 2013]

Entities: Bullying, Tumblr Inc, FormSpring, Gay, Suicide

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

ANALYSIS: Why LivingSocial disclosed huge data theft

LivingSocial must get 50 million account holders to change their passwords.(Photo: USA TODAY)Story HighlightsState laws are driving the disclosure of details of major databreaches involving customer recordsObama's push for cybersecurity legislation helps ... [Published USA Today - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: LivingSocial Inc, Dechert LLP, Cyber Security

First reported Mar 20 2013 - Updated Mar 20 2013 - 1 reports

How the Internet Revolutionized Campus Anti-Rape Activism

The New York Times has identified a trend among campus anti-rape activists that seems obvious, but has actually proven to be quite revolutionary: They are using the internet . “Frustrated and angry over the handling of sexual assault cases at Occidental ... [Published Slate - The XX Factor - Mar 20 2013]

Entities: Sexual Assault, Rape, Occidental College

First reported Mar 18 2013 - Updated Mar 18 2013 - 1 reports

Turkish Music, Twitter, Formspring, Genealogy, More: Monday “No, I Will NOT Shut Up About Google Reader” Buzz, March 18, 2013

Did you catch all of yesterday’s St. Patrick’s logos? Here’s a roundup .PC World speculates on which Google services will be next to go. Someone please explain to me why Google killed Reader before Orkut. Meanwhile, CNN looks at other beloved products ... [Published ResearchBuzz - Mar 18 2013]

Entities: Google Reader, FormSpring, Genealogy

First reported Mar 15 2013 - Updated Mar 15 2013 - 2 reports

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 March 31st, ... [Published TechCrunch - Mar 15 2013]

Entities: FormSpring, Log, Tumblr Inc, Interaction

First reported Mar 15 2013 - Updated Mar 15 2013 - 1 reports

Q&A Site Formspring Shuts Down

Formspring, the anonymous question and answer site launched close to three and a half years ago, is closing its doors, the company announced in a blog post on Friday. While massively popular in the startup’s early days, Formspring failed to continue ... [Published All Things Digital - Mar 15 2013]

Entities: FormSpring, TechCrunch, Startup

First reported Mar 15 2013 - Updated Mar 15 2013 - 1 reports

Q&A site Formspring shutting down due to resource constraints, last day to ask is March 31st

Question and answer service Formspring has announced today that it will be shutting down its service . In a blog post, it claims that its ability to maintain the level of resources it needs to sustain the company has become too great. With that, the ... [Published The Next Web - Mar 15 2013]

Entities: FormSpring, Log, Sadness

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It was just two months ago that Formsping announced plans to shut down, with founder and CEO Ade Olonoh writing in a company blog post that it had "been challenging to sustain the resources needed to keep the lights on." At that time, the company planned to close down its online Q&A platform on March 31st and eliminate users' access to their data on April 15th

Q&A Pioneer Formspring Says It's Been ‘Saved' From The Deadpool, Is Now Under New Management [Published Edit Hot - May 14 2013]

"Klout -- like LinkedIn -- could be going for the paint-the-fence Tom Sawyer effect," observed Pidgeon, "to encourage experts to contribute free content, with extra incentive being that experts can game their Klout scores by doing so."

Klout Gives Bing Some Expert Advice [Published Tech News World - May 09 2013]

...One particularly hurtful post read, "I wouldn't care if you died. No one would. So just do it :) It would make everyone WAY more happier!" After Jamey's suicide, users on the Tumblr community, where Jamey felt accepted, showed an immense outpouring of sympathy and support

Slideshow: 13 Worst Cases of Bullying [Published TruTV.com - May 02 2013]

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Q&A Pioneer Formspring Says It's Been ‘Saved' F... [Published TechCrunch - May 14 2013] Formspring , the pioneering Q&A site that allowed people to invite other internet users to “ask me anything” anonymously, is apparently back from the brink. In a tweet and a company blog post , Formspring announced that it has been “saved” and is now ...
Q&A Pioneer Formspring Says It's Been ‘Saved' F... [Published TechCrunch - May 13 2013] Formspring , the pioneering Q&A site that allowed people to invite other internet users to “ask me anything” anonymously, is apparently back from the brink. In a tweet and a company blog post , Formspring announced that it has been “saved” and is ...
Fast-growing Q&A social network Ask.fm question... [Published The Next Web - May 13 2013] Editor’s note: This article by Dmitri Sarle originally appeared on ArcticStartup , an independent tech blog that reports on digital startups and growth entrepreneurship from the Nordic and Baltic countries.Social Q&A site Ask.fm has been growingly rapidly ...
Fast-growing Q&A social network Ask.fm question... [Published The Next Web - May 13 2013] Editor’s note: This article by Dmitri Sarle originally appeared on ArcticStartup , an independent tech blog that reports on digital startups and growth entrepreneurship from the Nordic and Baltic countries. Social Q&A site Ask.fm has been growingly ...
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