SAN FRANCISCO, August 23, 2006 (PodTech News) – Friendster Inc. announced Monday that it has received $10 million in new funding. The money will support a renewed effort to refocus on its original mission to be a “real-world” social network. [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 12, 2006 (PodTech News) — “Unsanctioned corporate blogging is absolutely a tough call. And it happens in just about every organization,” said Allen Weiner, a media analyst and Research Vice President with Gartner, Inc. In an interview [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, May 30, 2006 (Podtech News) ­- Allen Weiner of Gartner and Shar Van Boskirk of Forrester Research are keeping tabs on the recent spate of Internet portal/E-commerce partnerships. Yahoo announced last week it has teamed up with Ebay [See the full post…]

“I think viral distribution is still in its infancy,” Gartner’s VP for Research Allen Weiner told Podtech’s Catherine Girardeau. “We’ve seen some pretty interesting little proof points along the way about how powerful this could be.” In this podcast, Weiner [See the full post…]