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VIEW ALLTagged.com Wants To Help You Meet New People
- Jan 3
2012 Tagged.com CEO Greg Tseng knows how to face reality. The company, which has been around for seven years, used to compete directly with MySpace and then Facebook. But, said Tseng, “In 2007 we decided relatively early on in the game…
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Tagged Acquires Facebook Competitor Hi5
- Dec 14
2011 Hi5, once one of the top three global social networks, was acquired by San Francisco-based Tagged on Wednesday, as some of the remnants of the social network space clear out in the wake of Facebook’s overwhelming dominance.
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Underdog Social Network, Tagged, Is Building A “Pandora For People”
- Dec 8
2011 Today, the valley’s underdog social network Tagged acquired startup Topicmarks to help it improve its people-discovery algorithm.
Topicmarks has machine learning technology, which takes long form content and summarizes it (so you don’t have to read all of the text).- Read more
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VIEW ALLBringing Social Discovery to hi5
- Jan 24
2012 - Tagged made our biggest acquisition to-date in late 2011 by purchasing hi5, and today we’re excited to share some planned updates for the site. With a history in social networking…
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Preserving Internet Innovation
- Jan 18
2012 - You may have heard recent talk about two significant, wide-sweeping congressional bills, which many, including Tagged, feel seriously threaten the Internet as we use it today. The Stop Online Piracy…
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Securing Your Tagged Account with SMS
- Dec 1
2011 - Here at Tagged, we’re highly committed to user privacy and safety. Tagged has always taken considerable steps, including automated techniques and manual review, to make our users’ accounts safer. This…
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