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Private Social Network Facebook to go Web wide
By Eric Auchard
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The leader of a youth movement that swept the world
this past year by encouraging Web users to share bits of their lives with
selected friends, spoke on Wednesday of spreading his service across the Web,
even while apologizing for past excesses.
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Posted on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:17:15 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Social Bookmarker Reddit goes Open Source
The developers behind reddit are releasing their social bookmarking software into open source.
Reddit means with 'open-source' specifically that the code behind reddit is available to the public for download, and we're inviting the public to submit code to help improve the site.
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Posted on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Gigya Socialize
Gigya announced the beta release of Gigya Socialize, a technology that gives website owners the ability to grow both traffic and engagement by adding social features. Gigya takes on Google Friend Connect with their product.
From social networks like MySpace and Facebook to niche destinations like Flixster, sites that have made their user experience social have achieved phenomenal growth. With Gigya Socialize, now any site can tap into this growth engine by incorporating popular social features like invitations, sharing, and newsfeed.
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Posted on Fri, 30 May 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Google Social Network Ad Business ''improving'': Brin
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Google Inc co-founder Sergey Brin said on Thursday
advertising on social networking sites was improving but "still had a long way
to go."
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Posted on Thu, 15 May 2008 03:48:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
NIM Gets Patent for GPS Social Networking System
Networks in Motion (NIM) has been granted a U.S. patent for a social networking application that uses the GPS chip inside some mobile phones. The patent issued was titled “Position Determination System” and is said to protect its intellectual property for networking applications that request and or push a users GPS location through a wireless network.
The patent features a method of providing real-time position information from one person to another via the mobile phone, land line or a computer network. The method patented also allows for users to exchange location information including address, GPS coordinates, or nearby fixed locations. Read more
Posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 06:35:36 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Web Guru targets Malaria with Social Network Site
By John Joseph
LONDON (Reuters) - The British entrepreneur who sold a soccer Web site at the
age of 17 for $40 million has switched his attention to help launch a social
networking site on Sunday designed to fight malaria.
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Posted on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Social Networks prepare own Music Services
By Antony Bruno
DENVER (Billboard) - One of the biggest new-media sensations to emerge from last
year were music-related widgets -- mini-applications that allowed members of
social networking services like MySpace or Facebook to customize their profiles
with such music features as streamed playlists and tour calendars with links to
ticket sales.
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Posted on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Musicians take Social Networking into their own Hands
By Jennifer Netherby
NEW YORK (Billboard) - 50 Cent has more than 1 million friends on MySpace, but
if the rapper ever decides to leave the social network, he'll be leaving behind
those friends, too. So like a growing number of artists, he's started his own
social networking site.
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Posted on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:29:04 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Blip BlackLine GPS Geo-social Interaction for BlackBerry
Users of GPS enabled BlackBerry smartphones can now get a free application called Blip that allows them to share their location amongst friends, family and coworkers. Blip says its users get full control over who sees their location with the service.
Blip allows users to track location history, view speed and direction when someone in their circle is on the move. Blip is also compatible with BlackLine's GPS Snitch vehicle security and tracking device. Blip is available now as a free download and is installed over-the-air from the Internet browser on the BlackBerry. Read more
Posted on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:34:21 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google announced the OpenSocial Foundation
Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google today announced they have agreed to form the OpenSocial Foundation to ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.
The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008. The foundation will provide transparency and operational guidelines around technology, documentation, intellectual property, and other issues related to the evolution of the OpenSocial platform, while also ensuring all stakeholders share influence over its future direction.
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Posted on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:44:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Yahoo supports Google Social Network Applications
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday that it supports a program by
archrival Google Inc to develop applications for social networks and will help
create a joint foundation to keep it alive.
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Posted on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:37:04 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
AOL to buy Bebo social Network
By Kenneth Li
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's AOL Internet division said on Thursday it
will buy social network Bebo for $850 million in cash, bolstering its consumer
Internet offerings even as the media conglomerate mulls splitting off the
business.
Bebo, which claims a global membership of about 40 million users, is the top
social network in Britain, Ireland and New Zealand, it said. It is No. 3 in the
United States behind News Corp's MySpace and Facebook.
"AOL, at its core, is a way for people to connect," AOL President Ron Grant said
in a phone interview. "We need to get back to our roots."
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Posted on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:13:45 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Smart Party enables Social DJing
Computer scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles developed an interesting solution for social DJing dubbed Smart Party.
Smart Party is polling via Wi-fi the playlists of the music players party guests would carry. This would work for instance with the iPod touch or the Microsoft Zune players. Each collected playlist is then sent to a PC where a software analyses the most popular tracks and genres.
Smart Party would then just play the most popular songs amongst all party goers which makes those self-declared party DJs a thing of the past.
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Posted on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Social Networking site Plaxo for Sale: Report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Plaxo, an early social networking site that has been
overtaken by Linked In and Facebook, is up for sale, The New York Times reported
on Thursday in its online edition.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:24:38 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Socialites back to Boarding School with Feature
By Borys Kit
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Tanner Hall," a never-made UPN pilot set in
a girls' boarding school, is finding new life as an indie feature.
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Posted on Mon, 3 Dec 2007 00:05:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Pluck hooking up Media Outlets with Social Networks
By Robert MacMillan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online media syndication company Pluck Corp said on
Wednesday it would give traditional media companies the ability to link their
Web sites to online social networks like MySpace and Facebook.
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Posted on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Xbox FOF Social Networking in Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update
Microsoft announces that the Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update on December 4th will include Friends of Friends social networking features.
With Friends of Friends You'll be able to check out the friends lists of fellow Xbox LIVE members right from the Dashboard. With this new feature, members can find old friends or connect with new ones within the community of more than eight million people on Xbox LIVE around the globe and send messages and game invites, as well as compare games and Achievements.
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Posted on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:39:02 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Google lures MySpace for Social Network Platform
By Amanda Beck
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc has lured MySpace, the world's
largest online social network, to its system courting independent software
developers, raising its challenge to fast-growing Facebook.
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Posted on Fri, 2 Nov 2007 01:59:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Google opens Doors to Social Networking
By Michele Gershberg
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc will offer Internet developers an open system to
create applications across Web sites, a move that could challenge the features
behind the explosive popularity of social network Facebook.
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Posted on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nokia's Mosh marries Mobile with Social Networking
By Tarmo Virki
HELSINKI (Reuters) - When George Linardos was ordered to clear his diary to help
dream up new business for Nokia , he imagined six weeks brainstorming on the
terrace of a five-star hotel in the Caribbean.
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Posted on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
MySpace, Skype to offer Calls on Social Network
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - News Corp's MySpace social network site and eBay Inc's
Skype will offer MySpace members free Internet calling services, executives from
the companies said, in a bid by both to expand their base of users and revenue.
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Posted on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:48:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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