25 January 2008
Popular social utility Facebook has announced a partnership with Amazon that provides application developers with a cost effective and scalable platform through Amazon Web Services.Amazon Web Services (AWS) allow developers to build their Facebook applications on the AWS platform - which is entirely flexible so that an application can gro...
25 January 2008
A new video network has launched today with the aim of ?keeping politicians honest? ahead of the US Presidential election 2008.Through the use of video, both media content and user-generated-content (UGC), ElectionSpeak
hopes to provide the means for voters to find out where Presidential
candidates stand on key issues and also where they have ...
24 January 2008
The world?s largest social networking site MySpace has formed a new content partnership with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).Both new and archived video content from the BBC will be available globally on the social networks video platform, MySpaceTV. BBC Worldwide ? the commercial arm of the BBC ? goes live on the site today and...
24 January 2008
Owners of Facebook applications will have the ability to make the ?About Page? of their application on the popular online community site more interactive and dynamic. Today, Facebook implemented additional functionality to an applications About Page that effectively allow users to become fans of an application (the same way that Facebook users c...
24 January 2008
There is a business-to-business (B2B) virtual conference today for those working area of social media. The Social Networking Conference will be from 08:00 to 20:00 EST is free to all industry professionals.The virtual conference will allow participants to interact with others in real time, including video chat. The virtual Social Net...
24 January 2008
Bands, artists and DJs can now promote their music with a personal touch; thanks to a new embeddable OUTSHOUTS widget for popular social networking site MySpace.OUTSHOUTS allows music artists to take individual songs and record a personalised introduction. They can then add their songs to the OUTSHOUTS widget, and embed it on their MySpace...
23 January 2008
US based MixerCast has received $6 million USD in a round of funding led by Intel Capital. The other investors were ONSET Ventures and Velocity Interactive Group.MixerCast is the creator of MCast, a tool that allows users to mix almost any type of media into an application that can then be embedded in any website, social network or blog.&n...
23 January 2008
Peer-to-peer (P2P) news and information network Current.com has launched an application for Facebook that will deliver news filtered by friends.Current?s president of new media, Joanna Drake Earn says that the current way people are digesting news no longer meets readers needs. She explains, ?Generic news feeds aren?t enough anymore: peopl...
22 January 2008
Star of the popular 70?s TV show The Brady Bunch, Barry Williams, has officially launched his own fan dedicated social networking site today.On his new site, aptly named The Greg Brady Project, Barry Williams (who played Greg Brady - the eldest of the Brady?s sons) explains why he has launched the site. He says, ?The Brady Bunch represents...
22 January 2008
Two university students from the United States announced their plans to launch a new social network for the music industry from March 2008. Guavagarage founders Daniel Kessler and Daniel Brown say that their aim is to connect all aspects of the music industry, from independent bands, their fans, venues and labels. Guavagarage explain...
21 January 2008
The number of dedicated social networking sites for pet owners has grown by one today with the launch of PetSmooch. PetSmooch is a joint venture between public relations practitioner Tirza Van Noord and Linkfinity, an information services company. Van Noord says that PetSmooch is "Facebook without the fluff" and "MySpace without the ...
18 January 2008
A new social networking site that generates revenue for its users has launched today. Ximmy.com rewards its community with points for participation, and these points are then transferred into real cash. Some of the ways that Ximmy users can earn points is by submitting news, video and images and posting comments. For example, one poi...
17 January 2008
Web 2.0 video company mDialog is giving filmmakers and content owners the opportunity to generate revenue from their content via their new pay-per-download engine. The new video delivery platform will be live by February 2008.Content owners will be able to customize their own channel (or groups of channels) and set a range of prices for th...
17 January 2008
Video search engine Truveo has today unveiled a new site for video relating to the US Presidential election 2008. Truveo will draw video content from a wide range of sources, including user generated content (UGC) sites such as MetaCafe, YouTube and Dailymotion, major television networks including CNN, Fox and NBC and the Presidentia...
17 January 2008
A new language networking site has officially launched today. VoxSwap, founded by freelance UK journalist Sean Hargrave and his wife Nicole, with the aim of connecting millions of people around the world who have an interest in learning or improving their.The site features internal email, chat and a discussion board, in addition to a virtu...
17 January 2008
Due to an ?anomalously high level of user complaints? Facebook are restricting the ability for applications to update the News Feed and Mini-Feed to those applications Facebook deem are ?engaging in deceptive or malicious behaviour.? The restriction will be effective immediately.The announcement was made on the Facebook Developers Blog tod...
17 January 2008
On 14 January 2008, social networking site MySpace announced a joint effort with 49 US Attorneys General to make the internet safer for young people.With the initiative, MySpace are setting up an Internet Safety Technical Task Force and also introducing more stringent means to verify users real ages - blocking access to the site for users under ...
16 January 2008
Hasbro and Mattel owners of Scrabble have asked Facebook to remove the Scrabulous application under claims that it infringes copyright.Scrabulous is one of Facebook's more popular applications and has over 600,000 daily users. It was developed by an Indian software company who reportedly approached Hasbro with no reply before launching in ...
16 January 2008
Online TV network Veoh Networks plans to develop new advertising solutions, and have made two big appointments from Dow Jones and Google to lead their Sales teams.Veoh, whose users have consumed more than 215 million streams in December 2007 and in excess of 30 million hours of content will also open an office in New York.Steve Mitgang, CEO of V...
16 January 2008
Facebook has today announced the introduction of an animation library for FBJS (FBJS is a ?layer? on top of Javascript that allows developers to more easily build Facebook applications) and all other social networks. The animation library has been made open-source so that developers can effectively use it on any of Facebook?s competitors s...
16 January 2008
A new social networking site has launched for the web analytics community.analyticsLife features a networking community, blogs, expert resources, chat rooms and a job board. The site will also allow members to upload articles, create groups and upload videos.The site has already running advertising from Omniture, Online Marketing Summit, e...
15 January 2008
New social music site Jango announce that they now have over one million active listeners just two months after launching. Similar to other sites in the market, such as Last.fm and Pandora, Jango allows users to create and share their own personalised music stations.Jango's chief executive officer Dan Kaufman says, "We?re thrilled at how p...
15 January 2008
Popular teen hangout Gaia Online has today launched a new application that connects their virtual world with one of the World's most popular social networks, Facebook.The Gaia OMG widget for Facebook doubles as a miniature version of the Gaia environment and allows users to chat with friends, earn Gaia currency and more.The launch in Faceb...
15 January 2008
WidgetBox, who offer developers tools for building widgets has launched their App Accelerator for Bebo. The App Accelerator allows developers to turn their widgets into applications for the popular social networking site's Open Application Platform. WidgetBox's App Accelerator was launched for Facebook in September 2007.Giles Goodwin...
14 January 2008
Popular social networking site for teens, MySpace has announced a joint effort with 49 United States Attorneys General to increase the safety of young people online.The announcement was made as a 'Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Sites Safety'. The Attorneys General had high praise for the efforts MySpace has put in t...