06 August 2008
Celebrity
gossip website PerezHilton.com has announced the addition of new features, in a
video presented by Perez himself on the site’s homepage. Aimed at making Perez Hilton a friendlier, more
social experience, a registration process has been introduced to “cut out the
riff raff”, with special reference to violent, racist, vulga...
06 August 2008
Partnering with a web-based
media property for the first time, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD)
has authorised the launching of MyDebates.org,
a political social networking platform rolled out by MySpace especially for the
2008 United States Presidential election.
The central feature of the
new site is a widget that can be ...
05 August 2008
Children’s
entertainment website Disney.com has announced a promotional user generated
video (UGV) contest in which fans are encouraged to create and upload their own
music videos to song clips from popular Disney artists. The winners will be invited to attend the
worldwide premiere of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year”, where th...
05 August 2008
Social
media marketing agency LiveWorld, Inc. has announced the launch of its LiveEngage Widget Series 1.0 for
popular social networking site Facebook.
The application can be directly embedded into any
Facebook page. It functions as a marketing
tool that automatically imports brand-related content from LiveWorld provided
commun...
04 August 2008
Now
that social media have become a major tool for marketers, it would seem that
consumers are starting to organise themselves in return, comparing notes in
order to source the best terms of service available. Launched today, a new website called mybanktracker.com illustrates this trend, providing an online
venue where users can exch...
04 August 2008
The mobile internet has
acquired a new port of entry today with the announcement by software provider ACCESS CS.,
LTD., that its Linux Platform functionality now supports Mobile Internet
Devices (MIDs), as well as NetFront Browser Widgets for mobile handsets and
consumer electronics. This significantly
expands both the actual and ...
04 August 2008
Whilst everyone is
aware of social networks’ crucial importance as a marketing medium, their
usefulness as an in-house management tool is sometimes overlooked. Socialcast, a provider of bespoke corporate networks
that aims to help its clients leverage this potential, announced today
the addition of several new features to its Sof...
04 August 2008
YadaHome.com,
an online community site specifically targeted at parents and grandparents,
has announced the addition of groups and forums to its existing network of
individual user profiles. Soft-launched
as a beta in May 2008, the site aims to provide both baby boomers and
“Generation Jones” with an online venue where they can share ...
01 August 2008
In an entry posted yesterday on the company’s official blog, social recommendation platform Digg announced the launching of a new, enhanced version of its mobile networking platform.Redesigned to better exploit the more robust browsing capabilities of the most recent web-enabled hand-held devices such as the iPhone 3G or those produced by manufa...
01 August 2008
GeoSentric Oyj (GyPSii) has
announced that its geo-mobility social networking platform GeoSolutions BV
Business Unit is to integrate with Chinese mobile handset company Ramar
International Co. Ltd. Following an
agreement between the two companies, GyPSii will be included as standard in Ramar’s
new package of location-based services....