November 4th, 2010

Stribe Opens Its API To Battle Orcs And Wizards And Such

Stribe launched at our TechCrunch50 event last year as a way to easily add a social networking layer to any site. (A few months later, they won the LeWeb startup competition.) By July of this year, they were open for all to try out and use. But for some massive networks of sites, that wasn’t good enough. They needed an API. So Stribe built one.

Specifically, Guild Launch, an online community for… → Read More

July 6th, 2010

Stribe Opens To All And Starts Thinking About Its Own Open Graph

Stribe had a good 2009. The service that aims to make it as simple as possible for any site to add a social network on top of their existing website was first unveiled in September of last year at TechCrunch50 in San Francisco. Shortly thereafter, in December, the service won the startup competition at LeWeb in Paris. Now they’re hoping 2010 will be even better.

Stribe is opening its service to… → Read More

December 10th, 2009

Stribe Snags Top Prize At Le Web / TechCrunch Europe Startup Competition

So the Le Web Startup Competition is over for another year. Instead of sitting on the sidelines reporting the event, as I was last year, this year TechCrunch Europe was asked to co-organize it with Le Web. So, together with Loic Le Meur, Ben Metcalfe and Geraldine Le Meur we filtered down the hundreds of applicants to the final 16.

Although we didn’t concentrate exclusively on it, it was nice to… → Read More

December 9th, 2009

LeWeb: Stribe's plug and play social networks – with a difference?

[FRANCE/US] Stribe is a plug and play service to instantly create a social network on any website — not unlike competitors Ning, socialthing and meebo. It was founded in March 2008 by Kamel Zeroual, Gaël Delalleau and Demba Diallo, who launched Stribe at TechCrunch50 in September this year.

The B2B offer is simple — site administrators can copy and paste a bit of javascript, and hey presto… → Read More

September 15th, 2009

TC50: Simply Add A Social Network To Any Site With Stribe

The idea of adding a social network to any site is a compelling one. Currently, most sites do this by creating their own networks using service like Facebook Groups and Ning. But those obviously aren’t actually your own site, they are other sites set up under your site’s name. Stribe’s goal is to move the network back onto your site.

The service, opening to the public today at Techcrunch50→ Read More