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Pikkoo Launches its Public Beta Product
Last modified on 2009-05-13 01:37:07 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Newswire Today (press release) – London,UK
Pikkoo focuses on social, user generated and interactive mobile content for Adobe Flash® Lite™ and non-Flash Lite enabled phones. The company is privately …
Ad Shop Adrenalina Ramps Up Digital Innovation Drive
Last modified on 2009-05-13 01:28:58 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
GLU Platform, First Cloud-Computing based Rich Media Platform
Last modified on 2009-05-13 01:27:05 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Kyte Streams 50 Million Videos A Month. Rolls Out iPhone Apps For MTV, NBA, And Others.
Last modified on 2009-05-13 01:25:32 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Reznor takes a byte out of Apple
Last modified on 2009-05-11 22:13:00 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Free Self-Publishing Platform Gives the Power to be Creative
Last modified on 2009-05-11 21:54:55 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
CMSWire – San Francisco,CA,USA
Bhakdi aims to make Klatcher a tool that combines marketing and CMS and eventually evolves into a user-generated business model. …
Visit Britain launches new social media initiative, offers free UK User Generated Content to travel partners
Last modified on 2009-05-11 21:44:58 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
TravelBizMonitor – Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Further adding he said, “User Generated Content (UGC) has been shown to increase browse time, bookings and online interaction and if we can entice more …
VABION LLC Enters Social Media Arena
Last modified on 2009-05-11 21:43:27 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
PR.com (press release) – Levittown,NY,USA
The site will combine a comprehensive events calendar and author- and user-generated content, and will interface with Facebook and Twitter social networking …
Apple sued for blocking iPod, iPhone hacks
Last modified on 2009-05-11 21:30:41 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Examiner.com – USA
The target this time is the operator of BluWiki, wiki provider whose user-generated content includes how-to sites where users share tips on various geeky …
Will “The Cloud” Save or Swallow the Earth?
Last modified on 2009-04-13 12:28:20 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
The Dream of the Cloud by Enrica BressanWhat is your dream for the cloud? Is it a blob that will cause you to lose all control, including your job? Or, is it an amazing innovation that will save your company from this world-wide recession?
What vendors aren’t telling you about cloud computing
Last modified on 2009-04-13 12:24:28 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
By Scott W. Ambler If you ask five different people what cloud computing is you’ll likely get five different by equally vague answers. Cloud computing is a new technical platform. Cloud computing is the next wave.
Segway, GM, Develop Not-Quite Electric Car
Last modified on 2009-04-07 15:11:25 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
GM and Segway have announced the Project P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility & Accessibility) prototype, a two-passenger version of the famous Segway that can reach speeds of up to 35 mph and last from 25 to 35 miles on a single charge.
Facebook, YouTube at work make better employees
Last modified on 2009-04-02 20:53:35 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Spoonflower – www.spoonflower.com
Last modified on 2009-04-02 16:47:11 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Fabric and design. Creativity and color.
The Spoonflower community uses fabric to make quilts, clothes, pillows, dolls, blankets, handbags, framed textile art and many other things. When we’re lucky, our customers post photos of the beautiful items they make in the Spoonflower photo gallery on Flickr.
Social networks ‘are new email’
Last modified on 2009-03-16 02:06:59 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Battling social-network viruses
Last modified on 2009-03-16 02:05:27 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Southtown Star – Chicago,IL,USA
Elise, my beautiful daughter, suggested that I rate the social networking sites. Xanga, MySpace, LinkedIn and Facebook could be analyzed to really give …
Companies out of the loop on social networks
Last modified on 2009-03-16 02:04:19 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
The Australian – Sydney,Australia
One in five Australians (23 per cent) interacted with a company on a social networking website, uploading photos or videos or posting comments. …
Elevator Pitch Friday: HerHotSpot Is A Social Network Merged With …
Last modified on 2009-03-16 02:03:14 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
TechCrunch – Atherton,CA,USA
Part commentary from professional writers and part user-generated content, the site allows readers to post their own content and, like with Twitter, …
March Madness goes user-generated
Last modified on 2009-03-16 02:01:56 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Examiner.com – USA
It looks like for the first time, traditional college basketball leagues will face real competition from user-created content. …
Last chance to prove ‘We’re Linux’ in contest
Last modified on 2009-03-16 02:01:06 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
The contest has produced more fascinating content than I ever expected. That being said, these are clearly user-generated, meaning you won’t find a lot of …
Managing through a recession, and coming out ahead
Last modified on 2008-11-07 02:27:37 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
This will be my second recession in a design consultancy.
My first was in the early 2000’s, and while some argue that one was mild, the combination of tech crash, general recession, and a generation of business leaders who had spent most of their professional lives in a
More Than 500 Corporate Social Networking and HR Leaders Set to …
Last modified on 2008-11-07 02:25:17 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
MarketWatch – USA
SelectMinds CONNECT brings together SelectMinds clients, industry leaders and the foremost experts on corporate social networking and takes place November …
Social network advertising options
Last modified on 2008-11-07 02:23:15 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
E-consultancy – London,UK
If you’re interested in dipping your toes in social network advertising, here’s a list of the ways you can reach users on social networks. …
Wayzon.com: Building Social Networking’s Missing Link
Last modified on 2008-11-07 02:21:13 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
MarketWatch – USA
Wayzon founder Paul Holcomb states, “Many people are connected via popular social networking sites, but they have no idea what their connections are …
Social Network Seeks to Unite Artists
Last modified on 2008-11-07 02:13:12 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Adweek – New York,NY,USA
LOS ANGELES A new social network aimed at uniting artists around the globe is launching with Star Wars prequels producer Rick McCallum at the helm. …
Social networking sites do double duty these days
Last modified on 2008-11-07 02:11:17 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Modesto Bee – Modesto,CA,USA
By Eve Hightower The old adage “It’s not what you know, but who you know” is unapologetically obvious on such social networking Web sites as Facebook and …
SMBs recognize benefits of social networking
Last modified on 2008-11-07 02:09:46 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
CIOL – Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Going a step further, small to mid-sized businesses have recognized the benefits of social networking, which offers an inexpensive and effective way to …
Blog Influence on Consumer Purchases Eclipses Social Networks
Last modified on 2008-10-29 03:59:06 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Earthtimes (press release) – London,UK
Blogs sway more purchases among readers than social networks: More frequent blog readers say they trust relevant blog content for purchase decisions than …
Internet Apps & Social Networking Office Boom Linked to Breaches
Last modified on 2008-10-29 03:57:20 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Dark Reading – New York,NY,USA
By Kelly Jackson Higgins IT’s worst nightmare may be coming true: according to a new survey, organizations where more employees are using social networking …
Enterprises have ‘the same’ social networking needs
Last modified on 2008-10-29 02:56:25 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
ZDNet Asia – Singapore
By Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia SINGAPORE–One company hopes Google’s OpenSocial platform will help bridge the rift between social networking sites and …
Why Most Networks Are Dead on Arrival
Last modified on 2008-10-29 02:55:21 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
ADOTAS – New York,NY,USA
Another problem for niche B2B social networking is that social media networks and user-generated content is very risky for advertisers who can’t predict the …
Top 10 Android apps for social networking
Last modified on 2008-10-29 02:53:46 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
comScore Ranks Clearspring as the Number One Widget Network Worldwide
Last modified on 2008-10-29 02:51:15 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Business Wire (press release) – San Francisco,CA,USA
Clearspring’s viral distribution enables Web widgets to be shared and distributed across more than 80 blogging, social networking, and bookmarking services. …
Mobile Social Networks Have Untapped Potential
Last modified on 2008-10-29 02:48:50 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
Other studies have shown that MySpace and Facebook are the most popular mobile social networking sites, but Lane said the two may be a bit confined in the …
Sprint Introduces the Highly Anticipated HTC Touch Pro
Last modified on 2008-10-27 12:53:26 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Barnes & Noble goes social networking
Last modified on 2008-10-27 12:27:15 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Barnes & Noble is playing the social network game. The superstore chain on Monday launched “My B&N,” where online shoppers can set up …
Social network will drive governmental change: Gartner
Last modified on 2008-10-27 12:26:14 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Government News – Sydney,NSW,Australia
Mr Di Maio said the key to successful online networks was a clear and magnetic purpose, such as Diplopedia, a wiki set up by the US State Department to …
Social networkers Flock to new version!
Last modified on 2008-10-27 12:24:56 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
NetworkWorld.com – Southborough,MA,USA
Flock’s other claim for this release is the ability for social network users to use Flock as the hub of their interaction with the likes of Twitter, …
McCain’s Sex Offender E-mail Registry Signed Into Law
Last modified on 2008-10-16 02:28:04 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
McCain’s Sex Offender E-mail Registry Signed Into Law
Last modified on 2008-10-16 02:28:04 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Motorola Jumps on the Android Bandwagon
Last modified on 2008-10-16 02:22:50 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Red Herring – CA,USA
by Lalee Sadighi Rumor has it that mobile handset-maker Motorola is planning to release an Android-based social-networking smart phone, according to a job …
Google Android + Facebook Could be the Reese’s of Smart Phones
Last modified on 2008-10-16 02:20:24 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
eWeek – New York, NY
“We believe this centralization of a consumer’s digital lifestyle through social networks will only increase adoption of mobile social networking in coming …
Mobile, Not Behavior, Should Guide Social Network Adverts
Last modified on 2008-10-14 18:52:09 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Social network MySpace unveils MySpace MyAds advertising platform …
Last modified on 2008-10-14 18:48:46 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Social Media Portal – London,England,UK
News Corporation’s social network MySpace has today announced the official launch of its advertising platform, MySpace MyAds. The new ad platform aims to …
UPenn student creates social network exclusively for college students
Last modified on 2008-10-14 18:46:15 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Texas A&M The Battalion – College Station,TX,USA
It is a social networking site built for college students with features such as a calendar system that keeps students organized by combining personal, …
New Social Networking Site for Puppies Has Dogs Wagging Their …
Last modified on 2008-10-14 18:45:04 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) October 14, 2008 — Dog owners now have their own Internet-based social networking site where they can pair up their puppies with fun …
Should organisations block Facebook in the office?
Last modified on 2008-10-14 18:42:56 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Sexual orientation, marital status, racial and religious viewpoints are all frankly revealed in the social network world. But wait, there are still more …
Melodis Adds $7 Million
Last modified on 2008-10-14 18:39:39 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Social Networks Are Changing Credit Union Marketing
Last modified on 2008-10-14 18:36:29 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Nokia Productions and Spike Lee Premiere the World’s First Social Film
Last modified on 2008-10-14 18:33:05 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USA
WHITE PLAINS, NY , Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Nokia today announced that the premiere of Nokia Productions, the first user generated multimedia film, …
Mobile User-Generated Content: Marketing 101 Report
Last modified on 2008-09-19 00:50:33 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
MarketWatch – USA
Mobile user-generated content (UGC) is growing, and eMarketer believes the two most important mobile UGC categories for advertisers to consider in the near …
NFB and Target Settle – $6 Million in damages (Posted August 27, 2008)
Last modified on 2008-09-08 19:12:59 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Today NFB and Target announced a settlement in the class action lawsuit brought by NFB in February 2006. In that agreement Target has committed to making their web site accessible and usable by blind customers. In addition Target has provided $6 million to settle claims for damages to be allocated to blind shoppers in California who were not able to use the Target site. Target agrees to (and will pay for) annual monitoring of the site for accessibility by NFB and by Jim Thatcher
How Monster Puts UX At The Heart Of Its New Global Product Development Strategy
Last modified on 2008-09-05 13:39:40 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
by Marta Baigorri
with Ron Rogowski, Angela Beckers
Interview: MocoSpace CEO Justin Siegel: “We’ll Generate Millions
Last modified on 2008-09-05 12:20:32 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Washington Post – United States
In 2013, more than 140 million subscribers will be part of a mobile social network, and that they will generate $410 million from subscriptions alone, …
Social Networking vs Social Bookmarking vs The Rest
Last modified on 2008-09-05 11:38:56 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
By expertsearchengineoptimization
Which brings us neatly to the social media sites that fall into neither of the previous two distinct categories: sites where the content is all provided and regulated by the users themselves. User Generated Content sites include Youtube …
Mobile Instant Messaging – Not an instant success
Last modified on 2008-09-05 11:36:45 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Mobile Europe – London,UK
They also see MIM as a way to build mobile communities and user-generated content services. While some European operators have launched their own IM …
CNBC gets LinkedIn
Last modified on 2008-09-05 11:35:04 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
In addition, CNBC will offer text, articles, blogs, financial data and video content to LinkedIn users, while user-generated content from LinkedIn, …
New travel Web sites do more than book trip
Last modified on 2008-07-21 23:35:50 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
In keeping with a broader movement for what’s known as user-generated content, new companies such as Nile Guide, TripTie and Driftr rely on users to …
LittleBigPlanet Will Let Users Sell Custom Content a la iTunes App …
Last modified on 2008-07-21 23:33:07 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Shacknews – USA
A Sony representative later clarified Reeves’ comments, noting that all user-generated content will be available free of charge at launch. …
SocialMedia Media Marketing: The Latest Way for Brands to Engage …
Last modified on 2008-07-21 23:31:21 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
PR-CANADA.net (press release) – Murino,Montenegro
In the Philippines, for example, 82% of Internet users belong to a social network. While Friendster is the most popular social network in Asia supporting …
Businesses Block Social Networks
Last modified on 2008-07-21 23:29:14 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Japan’s Mixi: A Social Network As A Purely Local Phenomenon
Last modified on 2008-07-21 23:22:19 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Washington Post – United States
Japan?s biggest social network is called Mixi, launched in February 2004 by the company of the same name. Drawing in one in five web users in the country, …
Twitter, Summarize deal could give Social Marketers more push
Last modified on 2008-07-21 23:18:34 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Fujifilm’s Camera is a Social Networking and Marketing Device
Last modified on 2008-07-19 21:33:15 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Nickelodeon Adds Social Networking Features to its Casual Gaming Sites
Last modified on 2008-07-19 21:31:45 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Mashable – San Francisco,CA,USA
Nickelodeon is introducing social networking features into its largest online gaming properties, AddictingGames and Shockwave. Features like direct chat …
Nokias Social Network Buy A Direct Challenge To Apple
Last modified on 2008-07-19 21:27:54 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
ITvoir – New Delhi,Delhi,India
The rumors have it that Nokia is planning to give stiff competition to Apple’s iPhone by acquiring Plazes. ITVoir brings to you highly comphrensive database …
First Global Real Estate Business Social Networking Site: GPDLink.com
Last modified on 2008-07-19 21:25:59 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
MarketWatch – USA
Unlike LinkedIn and other business social networks, GPDLink will be 100% focused on real estate. Membership to GPDLink is a free service. …
The Business Value Of Social Networking
Last modified on 2008-07-19 21:23:22 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Social Networks Go Corporate
Last modified on 2008-07-19 21:22:26 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Kiplinger.com – Washington,DC,USA
By Michael Doan, Senior Associate Editor, The Kiplinger Letter More and more employers are setting up internal social networking sites as a way for …
Evite gets more social interface (but still no API)
Last modified on 2008-07-19 21:21:22 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
Evite may be threatened by new social network-based invitation systems, but it’s hardly down and out. McCollough claims that the service has more than 15 …
eBay Roadmap for User Generated Content
Last modified on 2008-06-20 16:43:09 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
SGS Panel: Creating Tools, Community Around User-Generated Content
Last modified on 2008-06-20 16:42:00 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Gamasutra – San Francisco,CA,USA
Cary Rosenzwieg, the president and CEO of IMVU, described their take on user-generated content. “Almost 100% of the content in IMVU is user-generated. …
T-Mobile and Bebo Announce Social Networking Partnership
Last modified on 2008-06-20 13:09:22 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Consumer Electronics Net – Newport Beach,CA,USA
“Extending the Piczo experience to mobile devices is the next logical step in Piczo’s progression as a leading social network catering to the self …
AT&T launches yet another social networking application for mobile …
Last modified on 2008-06-20 13:08:07 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
TelecomTiger – New Delhi,India
AT&T announced the launch of JuiceCaster version 6.0, a social networking application specially developed and designed for the needs of mobile subscribers. …
Facebook users: ‘Think before you poke’
Last modified on 2008-06-20 13:07:21 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
PC Advisor – London,UK
Mark Watt-Jones, head of development and innovation at Orange, said:”Social networking has had a huge impact on how we interact with friends and colleagues. …
maniaTV Goes Mobile
Last modified on 2008-06-20 13:06:15 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Market Wire (press release) – USA
The maniaTV Network launched in 2004 as the world’s first Internet TV network. The company produces, sells and distributes made for internet programming …
Secrets Of The Always-On
Last modified on 2008-06-20 13:05:19 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
BlackBerry To Feature Loopt’s Location Service
Last modified on 2008-06-20 13:03:28 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
Also designed for Apple’s upcoming iPhone 3G, the handset’s GPS software essentially creates a mobile social network that helps post and share geo-tagged …
Top 10 Location Based Startups to Track
Last modified on 2008-06-20 13:03:43 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Location Awareness Could Change The World Of Mobile Social Networking
Last modified on 2008-06-20 13:03:56 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Social network subversion and the consumerization of IT
Last modified on 2008-06-02 09:32:00 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Mobile Social Networking and User Generated Content Market Insight …
Last modified on 2008-06-02 09:31:07 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Longtail, meet Fashion social networking
Last modified on 2008-06-02 09:28:44 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Progressive Internet entrepreneurs
Last modified on 2008-06-02 09:27:16 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Now Showing on the Small Screen
Last modified on 2008-06-02 09:09:30 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Can you cross the mobile social demographic divide?
Last modified on 2008-06-02 09:08:32 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
DN is going mobile – Here’s a status report
Last modified on 2008-06-02 09:05:55 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
An iPhone Request: GPS, Please
Last modified on 2008-06-02 09:04:49 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Forbes.com to launch ANOTHER business social network
Last modified on 2008-05-08 21:28:59 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
New Media Age – London,UK
Forbes.com has announced the launch of AnswerNetwork, a global social network aimed at international businessmen. The new social network aims to encourage …
Hackers Join Social Network Craze With ‘House of Hackers’
Last modified on 2008-05-08 21:27:37 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
By Thomas Claburn Hackers now have their own social network. GnuCitizen, a computer security consultancy, has set up a social network for hackers called …
Hackers create their own social network
Last modified on 2008-05-08 21:26:02 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Techworld.com – London,UK
By Matthew Broersma, Techworld Hackers now have their own social network, backed by GnuCitizen, a high-profile “ethical hacking” group. …
Apple’s games strategy looks beyond consoles and the iMac
Last modified on 2008-05-08 21:24:49 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
The Industry Standard – San Francisco,CA,USA
By doing so, Apple let a community of eager third-party developers tackle designing games like “Spore” as well as casual games for its devices that utilize …
Game girls
Last modified on 2008-05-08 21:23:10 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The Casual Games Association reports that 74% of paying customers for these games are female. And when it comes to mobile phones, women are just as likely …
Spleak Media Network Adds SportSpleak and VoteSpleak to its Family
Last modified on 2008-05-08 21:21:39 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
The Spleak Media Network (www.spleakmedianetwork.com) offers a hybrid publishing platform combining user generated content (UGC) with professional editorial …
MySpace Introduces ‘Data Availability’ with Landmark Launch
Last modified on 2008-05-08 21:20:11 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Centre Daily Times – Centre,PA,USA
Data Availability is about enriching existing Internet destinations with social functionality and valuable pre-existing user generated content and data. …
Ballmer to Yang: How stupid are you?
Last modified on 2008-05-05 12:58:33 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Microsoft Abandons Yahoo Acquisition
Last modified on 2008-05-04 20:42:43 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
More on Plaxo
Last modified on 2008-05-04 20:41:47 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
T-Mobile and Nokia collaborate on mobile services and personal …
Last modified on 2008-05-04 20:40:50 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Facebook ‘is a social utility, not a network’
Last modified on 2008-05-04 15:24:39 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Bluhalo – London,England,UK
User-generated online community Facebook views itself as a utility rather than a social network, the co-founder and editor of Social Media Portal has said. …
Yahoo Goes Full Steam Ahead With ‘open’ Strategy
Last modified on 2008-05-04 15:21:57 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
We-commerce
Last modified on 2008-05-04 15:19:56 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
InternetRetailer.com – Chicago,IL,USA
Roxy posted the video on the social network and video site to get YouTubers—potential customers—interested in its brand. It says women in surfing don’t get
SmartyPig connects your piggy bank to your social network
Last modified on 2008-05-04 15:14:20 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
VentureBeat – Fremont,CA,USA
Even better, SmartyPig functions as a social network where, if you make those goals public, friends and family can provide moral and financial support.
Nokia’s “highest production value” N-Gage game Reset Generation …
Last modified on 2008-05-04 15:12:06 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Tech Digest – London,England,UK
The PC version of the cliche-spoofing user-generated content-driven game will let users edit the game’s assets, then distribute them again – hopefully …
56% of respondents reported the lure of having unlimited
Last modified on 2008-05-04 15:10:55 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Wireless Week – USA
If you exclude messaging, mobile browsing and digital media, mobile media and entertainment generated $3.1 billion in revenue last year. …
One Web: Desktops and Devices Unite!
Last modified on 2008-05-04 15:09:34 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
eWeek – New York, NY
… mobile ads; mobile mashups and open APIs, mobile RFID and 2D barcodes; location and geotagging; mobile social networks; mobile user generated content…
Worth watching: “Viralcom” from Warner Bros. Studio 2.0
Last modified on 2008-05-04 15:05:55 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
So the media giant is making a show about how media giants are bamboozling the public by faking user-generated content. A little self-effacement is always …
YouTube, Hulu & Joost: Is there room for all 3 sites?
Last modified on 2008-05-04 15:04:11 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
techworld.nl – Haarlem,Noord Holland,Netherlands
YouTube has gained the critical mass that it needs to sustain itself in the user-generated content market — there will be no slowing it down at this point. …
Is Apple Planning To Buy Adobe?
Last modified on 2008-05-04 13:17:26 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Social networking goes mobile
Last modified on 2008-04-19 07:49:50 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Make Social Networks Pay: Recast Ads
Last modified on 2008-04-19 07:48:24 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Mediapost.com – New York,NY,USA
That means the ideal next generation of global mobile social assets will look something like YouTube + Facebook + Skype + PayPal, Morgan Stanley forecasts. …
Economic Woes Not an Issue For Google
Last modified on 2008-04-19 07:47:16 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
InternetNews.com – USA
Google has other social network investments, including an ad deal with MySpace. Page said part of the challenge in that space is “getting an advertiser …
Ad Network for Social Media Sites
Last modified on 2008-04-19 07:37:40 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Marketing Pilgrim – Raleigh,NC,USA
How is social media advertising different from traditional advertising? People are interacting with one another in a social network, rather than just …
Breakthrough Visual Search Engine for Mobile Phones Takes off Big
Last modified on 2008-04-19 07:35:17 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Business Wire (press release) – San Francisco,CA,USA
The ViPR technology easily supports user-generated content so that users can take new pictures of objects, images, videos or even locations and tag them ..
Mobile will be bigger than expected
Last modified on 2008-04-19 07:32:36 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
ITWeb – Gauteng,South Africa
The majority of all the content on the Internet is now user-generated and content providers have to take a back seat. Lobel said the average consumer, …
Expect exponential progress
Last modified on 2008-04-19 07:30:15 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
By Ray Kurzweil Fri Apr 18, 4:00 AM ET
Massachusetts Institute of Technology was so advanced in 1965 that it actually had a computer. Housed in its own building, it cost $11 million (in today’s dollars) and was shared by all students and faculty.
From AdAge: An Open Letter Social Network Site CEOs.
Last modified on 2008-04-14 21:32:45 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Is social networking is right for corporate marketing? Two tests …
Last modified on 2008-04-14 21:29:00 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
By amaruggi@providentpartners.net (Albert Maruggi)
I also traveled south from San Francisco to Palo Alto and the home of the social network company Ning. Ning is a web-based platform people, organizations, and companies use to build social networks that can be public (open to anyone on …
ID thieves using social network sites
Last modified on 2008-04-14 21:28:55 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Minneapolis Star Tribune – Minneapolis,MN,USA
By SHERYL HARRIS, Cleveland Plain Dealer Identity thieves are moving beyond traditional phishing attacks and using popular social networking and …
Apple iPhone-only social network imminent
Last modified on 2008-04-14 21:26:20 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
MacDailyNews – USA
“In February I wrote a post called ‘Will There Be A (Successful) iPhone-Only Social Network?’ and presented an argument that the iPhone SDK presented a …
Qassia: A new kind of Web 2.0 Social Network
Last modified on 2008-04-14 21:23:10 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
PR CannaZine (press release) – South Wales,UK
At Qassia, you can add your websites for free, and without having to add reciprocal backlinks. You’ll get unlimited quality backlinks (as opposed to …
The Wright Stuff: Why mobile games are failing
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Pocket Gamer – London,UK
He now runs his own consultancy firm focusing on casual games. He thinks his greatest achievement is being called a ‘veteran of the mobile games industry’, …
Location based services in Europe
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Create, Own and Control Your Own YouTube at StartYourTube.com
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StreamingMedia.com (press release) – Wilton,CT,USA
StartYourTube.com is a free user-owned, user generated content platform that is completely customizable to individual user preferences. …
Don’t forget privacy in a company social network
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NetworkWorld.com – Southborough,MA,USA
By Jay Cline , Computerworld , 04/12/2008 Large corporations seem to be tripping over themselves in their rush to tap into the social networking phenomenon …
Social network creates global poll of user tastes
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Netimperative – London,England,UK
Social networking site Poll the People’ has launched with the aim to find the everyman’s greatest albums, films and books of all time. …
Radiohead Launches Social Network, Needs More Work
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Mashable – Los Angeles,CA,USA
Now we see that the rock quintet has launched a social network, as reported by Stereogum, dubbed WASTE Central. Naturally, WASTE fits the In Rainbows theme, …
Q&A with Seth Goldstein, on social networking ads making more money
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VentureBeat – Fremont,CA,USA
Ad network Social Media has been making some money with third-party applications on Facebook since around the time of the social network’s developer …
Choices of social networking sites define a generation
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Kansas City Star – MO,USA
The Kansas City area sisters aren’t the only ones disagreeing over social networking choices. First popularized by industry giant MySpace, social networking …
Interview with CIO Dave Nikolejsin: Social networking
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InterGovWorld.com – Toronto,ON,Canada
Social networking outlets such as MySpace and Facebook are offering new avenues of communication for corporations and governments, but are also presenting …
Technophobe parents need to unravel mystery of web
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Irish Independent – Dublin,Ireland
Of the 3000 children surveyed, who had internet access, half of eight-to-11-year-olds have a profile on a social network — Bebo being the preferred site …
Facebook – How Good Is Social Networking In Reality?
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At What Point Do Social Networks Becomes Valuable?
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Yahoo targets women with Shine
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Saudi man murders daughter for chatting on Facebook
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Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
By Damien McElroy Foreign Affairs Correspondent A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, …
Oracle introduces social networks to CRM
Last modified on 2008-04-01 11:19:54 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
ZDNet Asia – Asia
With the new software offering, businesses can bring social networking and online collaboration capabilities into their CRM infrastructure, allowing their …
Users get Social Network Site’s Attention
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NetworkWorld.com – Southborough,MA,USA
That’s just how LiveJournal users are, they may be out on strike but they still care about their social network and making sure it is a safe and secure …
Paramount gets into mobile and handheld gaming
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Pocket Gamer – London,UK
Because the focus for this venture will be casual, mobile and handheld games. According to Variety, Paramount’s first clutch of titles will be based on new …
Week in review: Social media open for business
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CNET News.com – San Francisco,CA,USA
Of course, noticeably absent from the current partner list is Facebook, the site that started the social-networking platform craze in the first place. …
Stewart and Nokia envision new mobile world
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The social web
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By Ori Fishler(Ori Fishler)
The rise and still high popularity of social networks such as MySpace and Facebook (or the recent acquisition of Bebo by AOL) and the ability to easily open you own social network (Ning); Online video and user generated content on sites …
The Sky Remains
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Alternate Reality Gaming Network – La Broquerie,MB,Canada
The Sky Remains also invites user-generated content, and the game’s website will serve as a social networking site for players to create and publish their …
Social gaming picks up momentum
Last modified on 2008-03-31 14:43:05 GMT. 1 comment. Top.
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
Unlike traditional online casual games, users playing inside a social network aren’t competing against strangers who happen to be online at the same time, …
Top Ten Social Networking Sites
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Musicians take Social Networking into their own hands.
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HireAbility.com™ and Akken™ Integrate Social Networking with …
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PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
Executives from both companies say the union of social networking and applicant tracking technologies breaks new ground in the features and tools available …
A Contrarian View of Social Networking
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CSO – Framingham,MA,USA
By Sarah D. Scalet January 30, 2008 — CSO — More doom and gloom news about social networking on the wires this week: The sites are allegedly costing nearly …
Security and social networking
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Sunday Times.lk – Columbo,Sri Lanka
Part of Facebook’s appeal has been the greater degree of privacy controls it offers users compared with other major social network sites, the site has also …
What Liquid Liquid can teach us about agile agile intranet management
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French court fines user-generated website for privacy breach
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Yahoo backs Google’s push for open social networks
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Canada.com – Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
A screenshot of a website showing Google social networking applications, taken on March 25, 2008. Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday that it supports a program by …
The iPhone and Social Networks: Fast Friends?
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TechNewsWorld – Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
There may soon be a brave new world populated by location-based, video-sharing social networking utilities. Already, the iPhone is the perfect mobile …
Business Development Cited as Number One Reason to Join Social …
Last modified on 2008-03-27 15:29:26 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Market Wire (press release) – USA
TORONTO–(Marketwire – March 26, 2008) – Sales Spider, the leading small business social network, today announced the results of its survey about the needs …
Microsoft collaborates over social networks
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IT PRO – London,England,UK
Microsoft has announced collaborations with five social networks to increase the interoperability of its software. The vendor said plans to collaborate with …
Advertisers data mine social network sites
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Inquirer – Harrow,England,UK
As if that form of data mining (or spying, rather) wasn’t enough, Network Insights is also building social-media applications so that their clients can …
Social networking hits the bar scene big screen
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InfoWorld – San Francisco,CA,USA
Mix with that the phenomenon of social networking where people would rather talk to each other anonymously–see the movie Denise Hangs Up– than in person, …
Service aims to mine social networks for consumer insight
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InfoWorld – San Francisco,CA,USA
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service The market is ripe for services like that of Networked Insights, which mines data in social networks and discovers how …
Should Microsoft Throw Away Vista?
Last modified on 2008-03-24 09:12:57 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Posted by: Laurianne McLaughlin in News
Throw Vista away. That’s what my colleagues at our fellow IDG publication InfoWorld have now argued that Microsoft should do. Give it a dignified resting place, as a stepping-stone OS, and come up with a replacement that’s more sensible for enterprise IT.
Games Girls Play
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“Casual” gaming is the hot trend for women boomers.- By Brian Caulfield, Forbes.com
It turns out boomer women do play computer games.And do they ever. The business of cranking out casual games–snack-sized alternatives to time-consuming fare like “World of Warcraft”–is mushrooming.
VC confab: Please, no more social networks
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CNET News.com – San Francisco,CA,USA
The consensus here at the Dow Jones Web Ventures conference this week seems to be that the world doesn’t need another social network. …
They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know
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BlackBerry Eyes Social Networking, Music Craze
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DigitalJournal.com, Canada -
Digital Journal — The ubiquitous BlackBerry mobile device will soon add social networking to its long list of applications. At a Toronto news conference, …
South by Southwest Day 1- Engaging Your Online Audience
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GeoSentric puts social networking service on iPhone
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Scientific American -
Finland’s GeoSentric unveiled on Wednesday its mobile social networking service GypSii for Apple’s iPhone. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender HELSINKI (Reuters) …
How mobility will change social networking
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Computerworld, MA -
In particular, mobile social networking will expand to include presence, location and context. A simple version of presence has long been part of instant …
Analyst Talks Apple’s iPhone Games Strategy
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Gamasutra, CA -
… a microphone and a camera, the iPhone has the potential to be a revolutionary mobile gaming device.” But what about capturing a wide, casual audience? …
Casual gamers not averse to advertising
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Mobile Entertainment, UK -
Though primarily concerned with online, the study makes interesting reading considering the predominance of casual gaming in mobile and the rise of …
Social Networking: An Exploding Market Opportunity
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New Age Political Branding… Interesting Column from Ad Week
Last modified on 2008-03-09 19:57:26 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
By Shane Stepien(Shane Stepien)
Debates in marketing departments right now are driven by concern that brands are under-represented in social networks and user-generated content forums. That sort of brand envy is natural because digital chatter is a good index of a …
Avenue A | Razorfish – points of view pop-up
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Workplace Experiments at 37signals
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Jason Mar 05 – 145 comments Latest by stina
At our company-wide get together last December we decided that 2008 was going to be a year of workplace experiments. Among other things, we discussed how we could make 37signals one of the best places in the world to work, learn, and generally be happy.
News – No go Britain? Scotland
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Focus On Korea: Gamevil’s Shim Talks Western Expansion
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Gamasutra – San Francisco,CA,USA
So if we do well in the mobile games industry with casual games, we can’t be a number one in the games industry when the year comes to platform convergence. …
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New study shows 38% of gamers are chicks
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Popcap into South East Asia
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Mobile Entertainment – Hertford,England,UK
Acme Mobile will distribute PopCap’s games to over 250m consumers in six Southeast Asia countries. The deal will kick off with PopCap’s casual game titles …
*You Suck at Photoshop, Hilarious Tutorials by Donnie Hoyle*
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Mobile’s Barcelona Hangover
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Game creators look to the future
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PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE WITH MY TROUSERS
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THAT’S WHAT I CALL SMART CLOTHES
CuteCircuit, an “interaction design” company, offers T-shirts that can massage you by telephone, and a skirt that knows when you’re excited. A report from Evgeny Morozov at the MobileCamp technology conference in London …
Out with a whisper
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Metro Spirit – Augusta,GA,USA
Their goal was a raw and impulsive art form where what was significant was the paint and the act of painting. Abstract expressionism infused excitement into …
Social site for mobile gaming Playyoo opens up
Last modified on 2008-01-23 19:54:35 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
The site is aimed at casual gamers who like playing games on their mobile phones. Like Kongregate, game developers can show off their wares and interact …
Playyoo Launches Community-Based Platform for Mobile Casual Games
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Off the Wall
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Energy of the Fluid Field
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You say potato
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By Jim Barr and Mary Barr(Pippin)
Where an American would see an abstract painting we’ve been trained by works like Today will be the same… painted by McCahon in 1958 to see them as slate grey land with lowering dark skies. We remember having this discussion with an …
Damien Hurst
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Anthony Campuzano takes us where dead men walk
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A lively imagination tries a chant from the basement.
Exclusive Interview with Amir Bar-Lev
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