31 January 2008
Users of arguably one of the world’s most popular dating sites, Plentyoffish, will now be able to call and text each other anonymously – for free.Through the partnership with mobile communications company Jangl, announced today, Plentyoffish members will be able call, text or leave a voicemail message for someone that takes their fancy without d...
31 January 2008
Social media platform company KickApps has released Version 3.0 of its application suite to allow content publishers and developers to more easily drive user engagement.Version 3.0 enables non-technical web publishers to build a social networking with a customisable template that includes news feeds, social graphs, video, audio and photo sharing...
31 January 2008
Location based mobile start-up Rummble has created a new application for Bebo.The Rummble Bebo application allows Bebo users to highlight their favourite places from around the world on both their Bebo profile and their mobile phone. Utilising Google Maps, Rummble provides the means for Beboers to recommend things like restaurants, bars, hairdre...
30 January 2008
Mobile social media company ShoZu has announced the receipt of $12 million USD from SEB Venture Capital in the company’s third round of funding.ShoZu’s mobile application allows users to upload video and images directly from their handset to blogs, websites and social networking sites without comprising the quality of the content through compres...
30 January 2008
In a series of interviews on ‘video encyclopedia’ VideoJug, William Shatner,
famous for his roles such as Captain Kirk on Star Trek and Boston
Legal’s Denny Crane, says young celebrities like Britney Spears and
Lindsay Lohan weren’t taught discipline.In an interview on the subject of fame, VideoJug asks what the problem with Spears and Lohan
...
30 January 2008
Former staffer for John F. Kennedy and author and lecturer, Priscilla McMillan has launched a blog to communicate with readers and researchers regarding the United States nuclear policy and the origins of the arms race. A press release issued today states that the blog hopes to “convey that government secrecy and fear mustn't be used to rob the ...
25 January 2008
Popular social utility Facebook has announced a partnership with Amazon that provides application developers with a cost effective and scalable platform through Amazon Web Services.Amazon Web Services (AWS) allow developers to build their Facebook applications on the AWS platform - which is entirely flexible so that an application can gro...
25 January 2008
A new video network has launched today with the aim of “keeping politicians honest” ahead of the US Presidential election 2008.Through the use of video, both media content and user-generated-content (UGC), ElectionSpeak
hopes to provide the means for voters to find out where Presidential
candidates stand on key issues and also where they have ...
24 January 2008
The world’s largest social networking site MySpace has formed a new content partnership with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).Both new and archived video content from the BBC will be available globally on the social networks video platform, MySpaceTV. BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC – goes live on the site today and...
24 January 2008
Owners of Facebook applications will have the ability to make the ‘About Page’ of their application on the popular online community site more interactive and dynamic. Today, Facebook implemented additional functionality to an applications About Page that effectively allow users to become fans of an application (the same way that Facebook users c...