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0 R.I.P. The Golden Age of Tech Blogging (2009 - 2011)

The Web publishing world was saddened to wake up this morning to the news from three nights earlier, repeated from a presumably reputable source, of...

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0 VerticalResponse Buys Rooost

San Francisco-based VerticalReponse, a provider of email and online marketing services and tools, said Thursday that it has acquired Roost, a provider...

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0 VerticalResponse acquires social marketing firm Roost

Marketing company Vertical Response moves into the world of social networking

VerticalResponse, a marketing company for small businesses, has made...

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0 VerticalResponse Acquires Social Campaign Automation Tool

Email marketing company will buy Roost, a firm that helps SMBs with social media marketing content.

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0 Fownd Launches A Free Service To Reunite You With Lost Phones, Gadgets, Keys & More

Do you lose things? Despite being meticulous about personal hygiene and a snappy dresser, I tend to misplace things. I blame it on bad parenting, of...

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0 Twitter Rules the Photo-Sharing Roost … on Twitter [STATS]

New stats show that Twitter has taken over the picture-sharing market from third-party apps such as TwitPic and Yfrog. Third-party apps used to…

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0 SMB social marketing startup GroSocial gets $450K

The seed round is led by Kickstart Seed Fund, with help from Monarch and Rock & Hammer

Orem, Utah-based social marketing company GroSocial announced...

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0 AOL Is Building A MapQuest Social Network Called mqVibe

Something cool is coming to your neighborhood. AOL appears to be preparing us for some kind of neighborhood-based social network built around MapQuest...

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0 What you need to know - 08/30/11

Zynga may be delaying its IPO, AOL may be for sale; Roost reveals new social media analytics

AOL, which a couple weeks ago reported poor second...

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0 Roost reveals lush new social media analytics

Engagement scores based on retweets (Twitter) or likes, shares, comments and impressions (Facebook)

Social marketing platform Roost revealed Tuesday...

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0 O'Brien: A turbulent end to the PC era

Once, there was Microsoft and Intel. Then Apple and Google ruled the roost. And now, with the PC Era ending, and mobile computing on the rise, Silicon...

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0 Gillmor Gang 8.13.11 (TCTV)

The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — waxed and waned about the latest in social media buildout. Most...

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0 Will a Commercial nginx Shake Up the Web Server Market?

The nginx Web server and reverse proxy server has already posted impressive numbers in the Web server market as a small open source project. Now the...

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0 Study finds most fans of local businesses not local

Roost's evaluation of 800 SMBs finds that few fans of local businesses are actually local residents

Just because your business is local doesn’t mean...

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0 Study: local businesses prefer social marketing

A study conducted by Roost finds that local SMBs prefer social marketing to search

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but social marketing is quite the...

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0 How Many of Your Company's Facebook Fans Are Local?

For small, local businesses using Facebook for social marketing, building up a fan base is important, but only so far as the people clicking the...

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0 Roost releases Social Scorecard for local SMBs

The scorecard rates the effectiveness of a business owner's social marketing campaign

Shortly after reinventing itself as a social marketing service...

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0 Roost Reinvents Itself As A Super-Easy Social Media Manager For Local Businesses

The real estate bust wasn't kind to Roost, which started out as a real estate search engine. But CEO Alex Chang took the $8 million he raised in late...

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0 RIM Co-CEO Flakes In BBC Interview

You can watch the whole thing here but Mike Lazaridis is cracking up. Basically, in an interview with a BBC reporter, the co-CEO shuts down the the...

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0 Roost launches social marketing platform

Formerly a real estate search engine a la Trulia or Redfin, Roost takes a new direction

The social marketing wave is hitting hard and only the strong...

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