30 November 2007
Social network Facebook promises to make changes to its controversial advertising system Beacon, amid uproar from users regarding their privacy.Beacon is a part of Facebook Ads, that was introduced to an audience of advertising experts in New York on 07 November 2007. Facebook Ads allows any and all brands to create a profile where their c...
29 November 2007
Pluck announced on Wednesday that it will integrate its social media platform Pluck SiteLife with both Facebook and OpenSocial APIs in order to better connect the media and its audience.SiteLife will allow users to share their contributions on some of the world's top media properties, such as Gannett, Reuters, The Washington Post and The Economi...
28 November 2007
BMG owned Label, RCA Music Group today announced a new partnership that will allow music fans to personalise their social network with details of their favourite RCA artist.The OnTour widgets developed by PassAlong Networks are co-branded and feed through details of the artists tour details, discography and RSS news feed. Users can enter t...
27 November 2007
MySpace, the popular online social network owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will be introducing a news feed similar to that of Facebook's within the next month and a half.The news feed has been one of the more popular aspects of Facebook, and when Facebook opened their site to welcome non-students there was a mass migration from MySpac...
21 November 2007
Indian social networking site DesiMartini have been acquired by Firefly e-Ventures Limited through their parent company HT Media. The sale figure was undisclosed, however a source at HT Media states the purchase price was less than $10 million uSD.DesiMartini bares a striking resemblence in both design and functionality to popular social n...
20 November 2007
NBC Universal have bought MySpace internet series Quarterlife, produced by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick.This makes it the first time that an internet series has been picked up by a TV network. Quarterlife, a series about a female blogger began on MySpace on 11 November 2007, and is set to air on NBC early 2008.NBC partnered with My...
20 November 2007
It was reported in The Times on Monday 19th of November that Facebook made an offer of $85 million USD to purchase one of China's biggest social networks, Zhanzuo.com. Zhanzuo is home to over seven million Chinese people.Rumours were squashed overnight, as a representative of Facebook contacted CNET via email disputing the claims. Facebook...
19 November 2007
Facebook has reportedly made an offer of $85 million USD to buy Zhanzuo (http://www.zhanzuo.com), one of China's biggest online communities. Zhanzuo is home to over seven million Chinese people; that equates to about one in every 180 Chinese using the site. Facebook reportedly has over 100,000 users already however the purchase of an...
15 November 2007
New social networking site, Zubby.com (http://www.zubby.com) are enthusiastically offering themselves as the alternative site for MySpace users and promises to deliver a spam free, safe and friendly environment. Perhaps one of the key differentiators for Zubby, is that it sets itself out to be family orientated ? although clearly not rulin...
15 November 2007
Poker site PrizeWagon.com (http://www.prizewagon.com) has released its first Facebook application, PrizeWagon's AceBook Poker. Acebook Poker provides all Facebook users with access to the same games, cash, and prizes players as on the PrizeWagon.com website. Head application developer Brian Barclay explains, "The social networking concept is suc...
15 November 2007
New social networking site Trugo (http://www.trugo.com) offers $100,000 USD in college tuition fees for contest winners to kick-start its launch.The contest calls for US college students to submit a four minute video explaining why Trugo should pay their tuition. The contest launched this week with a national campus tour and live demonstra...
14 November 2007
blinkBox Entertainment, the first movie and TV site to allow users to clip,
personalise and share scenes, has made two key appointments.Read full story on M&M Europe
14 November 2007
MTV Networks will develop and launch the mobile social network Con3xion around its Latino youth-focused channel MTV Tr3s. The social network launches in mid-December and will target young Hispanics who are heavy users of mobile data technology. Con3xion is in partnership with San Diego-based mobile social networking company Intercast...
14 November 2007
A Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from "rooms" in Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website. The 17-year-old is accused of stealing 4,000 euros (£2,840) worth of virtual furniture, bought with real money. Read full story on BBC News
14 November 2007
Football community site MyFootballClub has aided the acquisition of Blue Square Premier league club Ebbsfleet United for £700,000, after 20,000 fans made personal contributions to secure the future of the team. Read full story on Brand Republic
14 November 2007
Teen portal Piczo has joined forces with pop culture content provider Spleak Media Network to launch a celebrity gossip platform called CelebSpleak on its social networking site. Read full story on Brand Republic
14 November 2007
Yahoo! has launched a new professional social networking service called Y! Kickstart designed for college students and recent graduates to connect with alumni and companies to find jobs, internships and career advice. Read full story on Computer Business Review (CBR)
14 November 2007
Devin Banerjee takes an in depth look at social networking newcomer College.com, who say they came up with the idea of the site after "Facebook alienated their core user; the college student." Read full story on The Stanford Daily
14 November 2007
Baig writes about the growth of mobile social networking, particularly given the pick-up and acceptance by networks and handset manufacturers. Read full story on USA Today
01 November 2007
Last.fm (http://www.last.fm)
have partnered with smart phone technology provider Electric Pocket (http://www.electricpocket.com) to make
the music social networks service available through their LobsterTunes MP3
player for Windows Mobile.With Electric Pocket's addition of 'auto-scrobbling',
LobsterTunes users are ...