Yahoo! Acquires FutureWorks' Client Xoopit

Sunnyvale, Calif. - July 30, 2009 - FutureWorks PR, the social media strategy and PR company, announced that its client, Xoopit, has been acquired by Yahoo! for $20 million. The FutureWorks team first launched Xoopit beta in March 2008, followed by Photos by Xoopit and Yahoo! Photos by Xoopit in December 2008. Xoopit has emerged as a leader in mail applications, indexing, and content discovery - and is known for bringing the Social Web to the inbox. It finds the pictures, videos, and files buried in webmail's gigabytes of free storage, and allows users to share, comment, and post them to their contacts on other social networks and blogs. Yahoo! will be integrating both Xoopit's photo sharing applications and content indexing and discovery technology into Yahoo! Mail and other services over the coming months. "Congratulations to the Xoopit team," said Brian Solis, principal of FutureWorks. "The inbox has essentially been the largest untapped …… Read More

FutureWorks Supports VentureBeat's MobileBeat 2009 Conference

PR and New Media Agency Captures Event Through Pictures and Tweets

Sunnyvale, Calif. - July 20, 2009 - FutureWorks PR, the social media strategy and PR company, helped sponsor VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2009 Conference. The second annual mobile conference was held on July 16 at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco. Throughout the event, FutureWorks captured the announcements, technology, sessions and people through pictures and Tweets. Photos from the event can be seen on the FutureWorks PR photo stream on Flickr at: http://bit.ly/Xchi5 MobileBeat 2009 attracted some of the most interesting mobile developers, investors, executives, entrepreneurs, markete…… Read More

FutureWorks Provides Video Services for the TechCrunch Summer CrunchUp Event

Sunnyvale, Calif. - July 13, 2009 - FutureWorks, the social media strategy and digital PR company, lent its video production expertise to provide the live video streams for TechCrunch’s Summer CrunchUp event. Titled “Real Time Stream CrunchUp”, the popular event was held on Friday, July 10 at the Fox Theatre in Redwood City. The event was broadcast live on Ustream and is available on the CrunchUp site: http://www.techcrunch.com/crunchup/ Real Time Stream CrunchUp touched on every aspect…… Read More

About FutureWorks

FutureWorks is an award-winning digital and social media agency in Silicon Valley and San Francisco founded by author, speaker and thought-leader Brian Solis. FutureWorks fuses “best of breed” social media, new media, digital PR and conversational marketing.

We are a passionate, results-driven team made up of social media specialists and digital PR experts led by Brian Solis. Brian is globally recognized for his views and insights on the convergence of social media, new media and digital PR. He speaks regularly at conferences, blogs at briansolis.com (also known as PR 2.0) and is an author. His most recent book is Putting the Public Back in Public Relations.

Brian is considered one of the original thought leaders who paved the way for social media and PR 2.0 and his blog is among the top 1.5% of all blogs tracked by Technorati and is ranked as one of the leading voices in the AdAge's Power150 index of worldwide marketing bloggers. He also runs bub.blicio.us and contributes to TechCrunch, BrandWeek, and WebProNews.

The FutureWorks team blogs at bub.blicio.us.