Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Ginx http://pulse2.com Sat, 26 May 2012 21:27:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar Starting Local News Service In Honolulu http://pulse2.com/2009/11/23/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-starting-local-news-service-in-honolulu/ http://pulse2.com/2009/11/23/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-starting-local-news-service-in-honolulu/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:25:23 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=22543 Continue reading →]]> pierre-omidyar
eBay Inc. founder Pierre Omidyar is starting up a new venture in Honolulu, Hawaii. The venture will focus on issues taking place in Hawaii. Omidyar is partnering with eBay VP Randy Ching on the new project.

“We’re starting something up in our own backyard,” stated Omidyar on his blog. “We are creating a Honolulu-based local news service that will produce original, in-depth reporting and analysis of local issues in Hawaii… We have a lot of work to do before our public launch in early 2010.”

Omidyar is also close to finishing up his Ginx project with Ching. Ginx is expected to be a recommendation website that utilizes Twitter.

Through eBay and other ventures, Omidyar’s net worth is at $5.5 billion.

]]> http://pulse2.com/2009/11/23/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-starting-local-news-service-in-honolulu/feed/ 3 What Is eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar Up To Now? Ginx. http://pulse2.com/2009/01/14/what-is-ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-up-to-now-ginx/ http://pulse2.com/2009/01/14/what-is-ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-up-to-now-ginx/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:24:09 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=9987 Continue reading →]]> Pierre M. Omidyar, the Iranian-American philanthropist and founder/chairman of eBay that is worth about $7.7 billion is now working on a new business.  Dan Primack of PEHub found a regulatory filing that lists Pierre as an executive of a company called Ginx.  Although the company is still in stealth mode and requests users to provide their Twitter username/password and secret code, the company has raised $2 million according to the filing.

Ginx is believed to be a recommendation website based on Twitter.  So if I do an action on the Internet and want to share it within the Ginx community, it will show that pulled website to other Twitter users through Ginx.  It is able to show this action through a URL shortening service through Ginx.  For an example, go to this website: http://ginx.com/-Bl6.

Omidyar seems to have a keen interest in social media so this type of service is right up his alley.  One of the most interesting tweets I’ve read by Omidyar was during the Presidential Debates between Obama and McCain.

[via PEHub]

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