Auteur: Steve O'Hear

Hold The Front Page (‘Til Later): Buffer Partners With News Curation Service Scoop.it

buffer, Europe, scoop.it, social, Startups, TC

buffer-scoopit-horizontalCourtesy of a new partnership with Buffer, users of the ‘make-your-own-online-magazine’-styled service, Scoop.it, can now schedule social media updates at the same time as they curate their topic-based news. As is now traditional with just about every new Buffer integration, I’m told that the tie-in with Scoop.it was a much requested feature by users.

Buffer CEO, Leo Widrich, writes breathlessly on the company’s blog:

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Hold The Front Page (Til Later): Buffer Partners With News Curation Service Scoop.it

buffer, Europe, scoop.it, social, Startups, TC

buffer-scoopit-horizontalCourtesy of a new partnership with Buffer, users of the ‘make-your-own-online-magazine’-styled service, Scoop.it, can now schedule social media updates at the same time as they curate their topic-based news. As is now traditional with just about every new Buffer integration, I’m told that the tie-in with Scoop.it was a much requested feature by users.

Buffer CEO, Leo Widrich, writes breathlessly on the company’s blog:

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Jobs For Friends Launches Its (Yes, You’ve Guessed It) Social Recruitment Platform

Europe, Jobs For Friends, social, Softgarden, TC

jff-logo-gradientThere seems to be an endless supply of startups in the social recruitment space right now. The premise being that friends of existing employees make the best potential job candidates. And so it is that another offering outs its social recruitment wares: Today sees the launch of Berlin-based Jobs For Friends — the product of longtime e-recruitment company Softgarden.

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Social Learning Network Brainly Raises $500K From Point Nine Capital, Angels

Brainly, Europe, Point Nine Capital, social, Startups, TC

logoCracow, Poland-based social learning network Brainly, which operates a number of sites across Europe, has secured a $500k investment from VC firm Point Nine Capital and local angels, including Mariusz Gralewski, founder of the Polish professional network GoldenLine, and the founders of niania.pl, the largest “nannies platform” in Poland (sold to Edipresse).

The company says that the new funds will be used to further develop its social learning networks, and to expand into new markets — a move that should see the launch of an English language version and mobile products, putting Brainly in direct competition with the likes of Koofers and OpenStudy (see previous TechCrunch coverage).

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Swarmly Debuts Its ‘Waze For People’ On iOS — Know Where Is Hot Or Not, Right Now

Europe, mobile, social, Startups, Swarmly, TC

cropped.transparentSwarmly, a newly-released app for iPhone, thinks it’s seen a gap in the location sharing market. Unlike check-in apps like Foursquare or indeed Facebook’s own location sharing feature, it places far less emphasis on the social graph to focus on anonymous, aggregate location data — powered by each Swarmly user’s whereabouts — so that the app can tell you where is hot (or not) right now.

Think of it as similar to Waze’s crowdsourced traffic data but for people. That’s the ambition, anyway. But first it needs a ton of users to be anything close to useful — a challenge that far too many, otherwise, good ideas face.

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