Venturebeat (Wednesday)

Kakai, an incredibly secretive Santa Clara, Calif. company (even though it has more than 40 employees already), has raised $50,000 of a targeted $100,000 round of options, warrants and securities, according to a filing with the SEC.

A past TechCrunch story on the company suggests that it i...

TechCrunch (Wednesday)
Big changes are coming to Facebook Platform. Today, Facebook is granting developers on Platform the ability to request (or require) users to hand over their email addresses so they they can send periodic messages directly to users. This doesn't come as a surprise: Facebook first talked about these...

Venturebeat (Wednesday)

CrowdFlower, the startup that helps companies find and manage workers for menial tasks, just announced that it has raised $5 million in a first round of institutional funding.

San Francisco-based CrowdFlower (whose chief executive, Lukas Biewald, is a friend of mine from college) is useful...

Venturebeat (Wednesday)

Starting today, Facebook is pushing developers to interact with users directly through their personal e-mail. This is a big change in how applications notify users of updates or new turns in games. Users will have to explicitly provide their own contact information.

Although Facebo...

prnewswire.com (Wednesday)
Five day conference in six cities supported by headline sponsor Meebo & supporting sponsors Pepsi Refresh NEW YORK, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Social Media Week's second annual conference will take place between February 1st - 5th, 2010 simultaneously in New York City, Berlin, London, San Francisco

News.com (Wednesday)
Recently a vacation site, Haiti.com has been transformed, now allowing anyone to filter through Twitter reports from Haiti and send the information on to relief workers.