31 July 2008
Online business referral
community Passitto.com has announced its integration with professional
networking website LinkedIn. The two
platforms are now connected through several new applications, with the potential
to expand the viral range of Passitto?s word-of-mouth referral and leads system
to all LinkedIn users.
The new functi...
31 July 2008
Private
content sharing enabler Drop.io has announced a new version of its applications
suite, timed to coincide with the package?s integration with social networking and micro-blogging
platform Twitter.
Twitter
users will now benefit from ?real-time? sharing of files previously uploaded to online sharing
points (called a ?drop?) throu...
31 July 2008
Google-owned
popular video sharing site YouTube has announced the addition of a new
functionality that will allow for further personalisation of user experience on
the platform. Following up on the opening last year in
different parts of the world of local sites tailored to specific national communities, YouTube has now separated langu...
31 July 2008
Omnisio, a
provider of online video customisation technology, has been bought by
Google-owned YouTube. The mind-child of
three young Australians, it offers a panel of options for personalising video
content found on video sharing sites such as YouTube or daily motion.
The
applications on offer enable cut out the sequences that re...
30 July 2008
Mobile
social network service Whrrl has released a new social discovery
application for Facebook. Christened ?Been
Here? Like it or Not??, it presents itself as an interactive game in which
users compete to show their friends that they are the most clued-up as to where
the best venues are in their locality and beyond.
First tim...
30 July 2008
The strong love the British
feel for their animals is one of the nation?s many idiosyncrasies. According to a survey conducted by pet
charity The Blue Cross, 97% of pet owners take it as far as routinely chatting
to their companions. This finding has
inspired the organisation to launch an innovative viral campaign based on a
q...
30 July 2008
Mobile social media
solutions provider Moblyng announced today the expansion
of its website?s mobile component m.moblyng.com, enabling users to directly
access rich media content such as videos, slide shows and photos hosted on popular
social media sites such as MySpace or YouTube.
The new functionality will
take its place alongsi...
30 July 2008
As the use of social media
spreads, private individuals are increasingly concerned with giving a
professional feel to the online content they create. The organisers of the upcoming BlogWorld
& New Media Expo,
a tradeshow, conference and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic
industry of blogging and new media, have dec...
29 July 2008
Social media marketing
agency LiveWorld, Inc. has launched a new range of application
program interfaces (APIs) for its social network platform. Christened LiveAPI 2.0, the new offering is
designed as a tool for independent agencies as well as corporate development teams who
wish to plan, construct, maintain and fine-tune branded socia...
29 July 2008
Announced
today, the latest version of the Volantis Storefront mobile commerce product aims to enable promoters to
reach out to consumers accessing Facebook through their mobile handset,
providing them with a new tool for leveraging the marketing potential of mobile social networks.
The
ability to access their favourite social netwo...
29 July 2008
As from september, British
Sky Broadcasting (Sky)?s Sky Community platform will be supporting a new range of
social media tools from Pluck, a provider of of social media capabilities to publishers,
brands and retailers.
The new functionality incorporates cross-site user
profiling that is intended to enable seamless navigation betwee...
28 July 2008
Media design and services
firm 3jane has announced the relaunching
of Makeoutclub (MOC), a pioneering social networking platform that since its
foundation eight years ago has been a meeting place for the underground music
community. The new version showcases
several original functionalities that aim to offer hardcore, emo and indi...
28 July 2008
Geo-mobility social
networking platform GeoSentric Oyj (GyPSii) has announced an agreement whereby it will be
providing technology, products, worldwide data centre infrastructure, and
GyPSii branding rights on a worldwide non-exclusive basis for a number of hand-held
devices manufactured by international technology giant Samsung.
...
28 July 2008
Announced
today, a website called UAN.ME aims to reconcile social
bookmarking with online marketing. Built
on the new DOT ME top level domain (TLD), the platform calls this deliberately
liberal approach "Social Bookmarketing".
In concrete terms, UAN.ME is an online venue that allows search
engine optimization (SEO) firms and inte...
25 July 2008
A new
website announced today claims to embody the next stage of development from
classic social networking platforms, in the shape of a fully integrated ?Lifestyle
Management System? Netkot.
The press
release announcing the launching endeavours to make explicit the innovative
character of the offering by listing a number of original fea...
25 July 2008
A
new online networking platform was launched today to the rallying call of,
"We've Got Issues - Social Networking for the Unbalanced." Geared towards those whose mental health, basic
character or mere current state of mind is a hindrance to their social life, mychillpill.com
aims to provide a venue where such problems can be freely ad...
24 July 2008
Popular outdoor lifestyle
network Trails.com was relaunched today, introducing a
variety of new features. Announced by
Trails.com?s parent company Demand Media, the new version aims
The applications on offer
include interactive ?Browse by Map? feature to help users plan their treks in
advance, trail summaries, trail photos, tra...
24 July 2008
In
the first five days of its pre-launch campaign, a new website combining social
networking and affiliate marketing has gained over 10,000 members. Built around a ?one-click? affiliate
networking tool that enables individual users to quickly build a large personal
buying network (or ?grapevine?), OfferGrapevine.com is alleged to o...
24 July 2008
To those still under the impression that user generated content (UGC) typically consists in little more than happy snaps and home videos, a contest announced today by online artist community myartspace.com may come as a revelation of user-created media?s more sophisticated side.The competition presents itself as a scholarship program for arts st...
23 July 2008
Announced
today, a new social network centred on healthcare aims to help solve healthcare
problems on two levels at once by linking the concrete medical difficulties
faced by United States? citizens
to those affecting the national healthcare system that is supposed to address
them. To this end, CheckMD endeavours to
provide a resou...
23 July 2008
AOL?s digital advertising arm
Platform-A announced today the addition of AOL subsidiary Goowy?s widget creation
and management service to its advertisement distribution offer. By putting
together creation, syndication and measurement tools into a single package, the
new feature aims to provide a key-in-hand solution for implementing
w...
23 July 2008
The
Association of Virtual Worlds (AVW), a worldwide professional association
for the fast expanding virtual worlds industry, has announced the opening on an
invitation-only basis of its company headquarters. In keeping with the object
of the organisation, these consist of a 3D subsisting online environment.
In
their current closed...
22 July 2008
Online broadsheet NYTimes.com and professional networking site LinkedIn announced today that they had reached an
agreement that will allow LinkedIn members to opt for automatic personalisation
of the news presented to them on the Business and Technology sections of NYTimes.com.
When the option is
selected, the LinkedIn user visitin...
22 July 2008
With private debt and commodity prices soaring, donations to charitable causes may be expected to slump as consumer spending patterns adjust to lower levels of disposable income. Announced today, a new website called uPlej aims to adapt fundraising strategy to less affluent times by turning the viral nature of social networks into a force ...
22 July 2008
Sports-centred social
network eFans has announced it will re-launch in time for the 2008 Beijing
Olympics. With several new features on
display, the site?s stated ambition is to become the web?s most popular venue
for all people interested in athletics, although the site also caters for all
manner of other sports.
As its na...