27 June 2008
AOL?s Black Voices has today announced the launch a new three-minute video round-up of the week?s activity of interest to African-Americans. The six week program will run every Friday and is sponsored by Toyota.The ?Black Voices Weekly Wire? will be hosted by actress and R&B artist Tatyana Ali, best known for her role as Ashley Banks o...
27 June 2008
Internet solutions company Internap have partnered with SmacChat,
a social networking for sports
fans. Internap will integrate their Content
Delivery Network (CDN) to provide SmacChat with a constant flow of rich media
content such as video highlights and replays of games that are both visually
impressive and technically reliable....
26 June 2008
Popular social networking site MySpace and premier
news names NBC news and msnbc.com have teamed up to launch a new competition to
recruit two ?citizen journalists? to cover the 2008 United States presidential
election. They will report whether
Barack Obama or John McCain will become the next US president directly to the
MySpace...
26 June 2008
One of the world?s most popular social networking sites, Facebook has announced the addition of a new means to interact with friends on their Facebook profile. From today, Facebook users will be able to leave comments for friends in their ?Mini-Feed? on their profile, allowing them to add comments on individual status updates, new friends ...
25 June 2008
Demonstrating the
crucial importance of social media and advertising in an increasingly virtualised
global community, payment processing and credit card company Visa Inc. has announced
the launching of its Visa Business Network.
Visa Business
Network launches as a Facebook application and is aimed at small businesses. Vi...
16 June 2008
News Corporation?s popular social networking site MySpace has announced the launch a series of changes and additions to the core functionality of the site. Such changes will include the home page, navigation, profile editing, search and the addition of MySpaceTV player.MySpace hopes the announcement will empower the site?s community on a g...
12 May 2008
Google has today announced the release of Google Friend Connect, a service that enables website owners to add social networking elements to their own site.By adding a small amount of code, website owners can add features such as user registration, invitations, member galleries, message posting, reviews and third party applications from Google?s ...
07 May 2008
HarperCollins UK has released its new social networking site Authonomy in private beta. The book publisher first announced the initiative in October 2007, and the site was expected to launch in early 2008.Authonomy aims to connect aspiring authors with ?keen talent-spotting readers? by uploading a minimum of 10,000 words of their manuscrip...
06 May 2008
The Bloggers Unite campaign http://unite.blogcatalog.com announced over the weekend aims to amass the largest collective of bloggers to write about human rights on Thursday 15 May 2008.The campaign put together by members of BlogCatalog.com (Bloggers Unite For Human Rights is the fourth social awareness campaign launched by its members in the la...
15 April 2008
Less than a week after social networking giant MySpace launched MySpace Latino, the launch partner behind the MySpace TodoFútbol community has launched an online community for the US Hispanic market. Traditional media publisher, ImpreMedia has today announced the launch of impre.com, a portal it hopes will become the number one destination for t...
10 April 2008
MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch?s News Corporation has today announced a distribution partnership with production company ShineReveille to offer shows produced by the social network?s MySpaceTV to traditional media outlets.ShineReveille is the distribution arm of Shine Group, a company founded
by Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of Rupert Murdoch.&...
09 April 2008
Arguably the world?s most popular photo sharing community, Flickr, has today announced the addition of video sharing capibilities.The ability to add videos is only available to paid members of Flickr and is restricted to 90 seconds of footage. Kakul Srivastava, general manager of Flickr says that video is a natural progression for Flickr, ...
26 March 2008
Yahoo! announced yesterday that it supports Google?s application development initiative OpenSocial, and that together along with social networking site MySpace they will form the OpenSocial Foundation.On a telephone conference call that was held yesterday, when asked why the Foundation was formed with Yahoo! over an existing OpenSocial partner s...
17 March 2008
GCap Media has today announced it has acquired a majority stake in welovelocal.com, the UK?s local business directory and social networking service. Welovelocal.com officially launched nationwide in December 2007.Radio network GCap made an offer of £450,000 GBP for the deal which was accepted by welovelocal.com founders Duncan and Max Jenn...
13 March 2008
Amid speculation that it would soon partner Yahoo!, AOL has today announced their acquisition of popular social networking site Bebo for $850 million USD.Bringing Bebo into the fold, will give AOL a global network (which includes ICQ and AIM) of over 80 million users with Bebo contributing more than half of those. The deal foll...
12 March 2008
Online video sharing site Hulu has announced the launch of their site to the US public. From today, Hulu users will be able to stream tv shows, full length movies and video clips at no cost.Media giants NBC Universal and Rupert Murdoch?s News Corporation, the companies behind Hulu, first announced their plans to launch a site they hoped to...
05 March 2008
Media search platform Pixsy has announced a partnership with Pageflakes to provide users of the ?personalised homepage? with a celebrity search widget (or ?flake?).The partnership will connect Pageflakes to Pixsy?s video and image index. Chief executive officer of Pageflakes comments, ?The unique ability of the Pixsy index enables our user...
28 February 2008
In early December 2007, B2B social networking site LinkedIn announced that it would be upgrading numerous aspects of their site, which included a new homepage and the introduction of an application platform.The new LinkedIn homepage, which went live today, includes a new dimension to the LinkedIn service; being a ?status? feature which is akin t...
27 February 2008
Mobile billing provider 3BILL has announced the acquisition of social networking site, Profile Heaven. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.The UK based social networking site aimed at 15-24 year olds was purchased for an undisclosed sum and will be re-branded and upgraded in the coming months in an attempt to grow the user-base.Martin...
25 February 2008
LinkedIn, the popular business to business (B2B) social networking site has today announced its progression to mobile.LinkedIn users will now be able to network with the other 19 million users from their mobile phone, including iPhone?s and Blackberry?s. Dan Nye, LinkedIn?s chief executive officer comments, ?Let?s face it, every profession...
22 February 2008
Live video broadcasting platform, Ustream.TV has announced that it will be providing a live streaming service to social bookmarking site, Digg.Digg, who will be hosting their first ?Town Hall Meeting? on Monday 25th of February, will be utilising the live broadcasting technology to communicate with users on what?s happening at Digg, answer user ...
21 February 2008
White label video and image search engine Pixsy has today announced a partnership with growing social network, PerfSpot.The partnership will see Pixsy power image search for PerfSpot?s eight million strong member base - where they take over from multimedia Truveo.Chief executive officer of PerfSpot, Hart Cunningham comments, ?The Pixsy Image Sea...
21 February 2008
Social media monitoring platform, Ripple6 has today announced the launch of their new white label platform. Ripple6?s technology will allow publishers and marketers to embed a word-of-mouth analytics tool into their existing or newly formed social networking sites to ?measure the flow of content and messages across communities.? The ...
21 February 2008
Familybuilder, a New York based software company has today announced the launch of their family tree building application on Bebo and already has over 10,000 users.The ?Family Tree? application launched on popular social utility Facebook in June of last year, and has so far surpassed 7 million subscribers, with the company expecting to reach 8 m...
20 February 2008
A new social networking site for people working in the entertainment industry has launched today. The Biz is a joint collaboration between entertainment resource Variety, and online career network Jobster.Entertainment professionals who join The Biz will have the ability to network with peers, promote products, exchange ideas and search fo...