http://www.takeaplunge.com Ventures, Start Ups, Businesses Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.takeaplunge.com/ranker-leaves-beta-launches-%e2%80%98wisdom-of-crowds%e2%80%99-lists/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/ranker-leaves-beta-launches-%e2%80%98wisdom-of-crowds%e2%80%99-lists/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:29:03 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=4021 Ranker is a list making platform. After 10 months of beta, it is now launching the Community Lists feature. Ranker is called a service for “ranking anything in the universe.” It has a database that includes more than 6 million items for list inclusion. During the beta phase, Ranker has got more than 10,000 lists. Right now, [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/ranker-leaves-beta-launches-%e2%80%98wisdom-of-crowds%e2%80%99-lists/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-in-discussions-to-acquire-yelp-for-a-half-billion-dollars-or-more/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-in-discussions-to-acquire-yelp-for-a-half-billion-dollars-or-more/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:49:48 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2765 Google and Yelp are in advanced acquisition negotiations with a supposed deal of $500 million. Yelp was founded in 2004. It let users review local businesses. According to Comscore, the site gets nearly 9 million monthly unique visitors, and it has been growing fast. According to the company, the real number of visitors are near 25 [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-in-discussions-to-acquire-yelp-for-a-half-billion-dollars-or-more/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/twitter-expands-rules-to-allow-advertising/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/twitter-expands-rules-to-allow-advertising/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:09:05 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2107 As if the spasm and direct messages were not enough, now here come the advertisers. Twitter, the famous microblogging site is now looking for ways to make money.  It wants a pie of the advertisers’ money. Twitter has expanded its terms for users on Thursday to allow advertisers to reach its users. Twitter at present has [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/twitter-expands-rules-to-allow-advertising/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/anonymous-confessions-go-online-with-secrettweet/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/anonymous-confessions-go-online-with-secrettweet/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:56:59 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=819 Now, you can take that heavy load off your chest that you have been carrying for a long time. Make a true confession and make yourself free. Now do it online with SecretTweet. SecretTweet is a site that accepts anonymous submissions (confessions). The site then funnels them to a public Twitter stream. The submissions vary a lot [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/anonymous-confessions-go-online-with-secrettweet/feed/ 0