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by Mark Brooks on August 24, 2007
PRESS RELEASE - Aug 23 - uVme's online-game-of-skill.com has launched. The site, which combines social networking, online gaming, and network marketing, allows people to host online games and earn...
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by Mark Brooks on August 23, 2007
10 ZEN MONKEYS - Aug 22 - NOSO is a real-world platform for temporary disengagement from social networking environments. The NOSO experience offers a unique opportunity to create NO Connections by...
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by Linda Roeder on August 22, 2007
Want to find people in your own city. Go to Ning and search for a social networking site that's in your area. If you find that Ning doesn't have a social networking site in your area, create...
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by Mark Brooks on August 21, 2007
ASSOCIATED PRESS - Aug 17 - A number of sites satirize some of the most popular destinations on the Internet. GetAFirstLife, a one-page site with the slogan "Go Outside. Membership is...
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by Mark Brooks on August 08, 2007
PC MAGAZINE - Aug 7 - Online VoIP application Skype released Skype 3.5 for Windows, which adds videos from popular social networking sites to the Skype experience. Previous versions let users talk via...
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by Linda Roeder on July 25, 2007
Along the same lines as photo sharing sites like Flickr or video sharing sites like YouTube, YouMail will let you do the same thing with voicemail. Upload your favorite voicemail messages or create...
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by Linda Roeder on March 23, 2007
Yahoo Answers has added the ability for users to add other members to their Yahoo Answers network. Now when someone gives you a good answer you can add them to your network. Next time you have a...
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by Linda Roeder on March 23, 2007
"..there is clearly no dominating SN for the post graduate crowd like Facebook and LinkedIn are with their demos." -- Social Degree -- Mar 12 Is there a gap between the college age social...
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by Mark Brooks on August 17, 2006
Shortly after AOL announced a dramatically new business plan that included laying off a quarter of its workforce, the company went on a small buying spree, purchasing GameDaily.com, which provides...
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by pete on May 29, 2006
I've been watching Marc Canter's Broadband Mechanics for awhile now. Marc's had more public fits than starts with Tribe and Ourmedia. But, Marc's got some awesome ideas for allowing...
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by pete on May 27, 2006
In a comment on Jeff Clavier's blog, Jim Scheinman from Bebo clarified their traffic stats: Much of the confusion in the #s above (and frankly in many blog postings) about Bebo's and other SN...
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by pete on May 27, 2006
Stefanie Olsen at CNET is following the story. March 17th: In a letter to prosecutors, Google said its Brazilian unit is not responsible for the content on the service, which has about 8 million users...
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by pete on May 27, 2006
My favorite news and blog aggregation site has landed a deal with the Associated Press: The Associated Press has entered into a 15-month agreement with news aggregator Topix.net aimed at increasing...
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by pete on May 27, 2006
Rafat Ali: You're reading it here first: Bebo, an SF-based social networking site which is in the middle-ground between MySpace and Facebook, and among the biggest in UK, Ireland and New Zealand,...
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by pete on May 08, 2006
Here's an interview with Ash Maurya of WiredReach, makers of BoxCloud. Who is your average user? Anyone that has ever needed to share or send files with other people. What value are you providing...
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by pete on February 26, 2006
Not as much as Friendster, but enough to keep them rolling along. Rafat Ali reports: Tribe.net Bags Another $3 Million [by rafat] : That's according to an SEC filing, picked up by PE Week Wire....
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by pete on February 18, 2006
Although myspace is getting most of the press about this problem (unfortunately for them), this is an issue that all of the social networks and every community website must deal with.Robert Young on...
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by pete on February 18, 2006
Judy's book has an interesting little promotion going on. They are giving away a gift certificate every day. From John Cook's Venture Blog: But the software giant isn't the only one...
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by robyn on February 13, 2006
As if MySpace couldn't be more synonymous with young naked people, now Playboy has plans to release "The Women of MySpace." Way to cash-in Playboy... Playboy magazine has devoted photo...
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by pete on February 12, 2006
The guy that got to sell the ads at weblogsinc has moved on back to the next desk over - now that AOL's ad department has taken over his duties. He's moving onto myspace: So what's next?...
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by pete on February 12, 2006
Yes. They got more cash. John DeMayo has some solid advice for them: -License your behavioral and demographic data. -Work with partners that can help empower you to use your behavioral and...
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by pete on February 12, 2006
WisdomArk is starting off with a boatload of cash, a strange name and some lofty missions. They want to be our social network's proxy biographers. Straight from Andy Halliday's, one of the...
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