28 February 2008
In early December 2007, B2B social networking site LinkedIn announced that it would be upgrading numerous aspects of their site, which included a new homepage and the introduction of an application platform.The new LinkedIn homepage, which went live today, includes a new dimension to the LinkedIn service; being a “status” feature which is akin t...
27 February 2008
Mobile billing provider 3BILL has announced the acquisition of social networking site, Profile Heaven. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.The UK based social networking site aimed at 15-24 year olds was purchased for an undisclosed sum and will be re-branded and upgraded in the coming months in an attempt to grow the user-base.Martin...
25 February 2008
LinkedIn, the popular business to business (B2B) social networking site has today announced its progression to mobile.LinkedIn users will now be able to network with the other 19 million users from their mobile phone, including iPhone’s and Blackberry’s. Dan Nye, LinkedIn’s chief executive officer comments, “Let’s face it, every profession...
22 February 2008
Live video broadcasting platform, Ustream.TV has announced that it will be providing a live streaming service to social bookmarking site, Digg.Digg, who will be hosting their first ‘Town Hall Meeting’ on Monday 25th of February, will be utilising the live broadcasting technology to communicate with users on what’s happening at Digg, answer user ...
21 February 2008
White label video and image search engine Pixsy has today announced a partnership with growing social network, PerfSpot.The partnership will see Pixsy power image search for PerfSpot’s eight million strong member base - where they take over from multimedia Truveo.Chief executive officer of PerfSpot, Hart Cunningham comments, “The Pixsy Image Sea...
21 February 2008
Social media monitoring platform, Ripple6 has today announced the launch of their new white label platform. Ripple6’s technology will allow publishers and marketers to embed a word-of-mouth analytics tool into their existing or newly formed social networking sites to ‘measure the flow of content and messages across communities.’ The ...
21 February 2008
Familybuilder, a New York based software company has today announced the launch of their family tree building application on Bebo and already has over 10,000 users.The ‘Family Tree’ application launched on popular social utility Facebook in June of last year, and has so far surpassed 7 million subscribers, with the company expecting to reach 8 m...
20 February 2008
A new social networking site for people working in the entertainment industry has launched today. The Biz is a joint collaboration between entertainment resource Variety, and online career network Jobster.Entertainment professionals who join The Biz will have the ability to network with peers, promote products, exchange ideas and search fo...
20 February 2008
Youth entertainment company GoFish has released a new ad distribution network to connect advertisers with the hard to reach youth market.Through the GoFish Network, advertisers will have the ability to reach 6-17 year olds through entertainment sites such as Miniclip, Cartoon Doll Emporium, Piczo and virtual world, Whyville.GoFish’s executive ch...
20 February 2008
Walt Disney has made a commitment to better focus on kids and families online through a new team called Disney Online Studios.The new team, who are part of Disney Online will be launching a broad range of games, virtual worlds and online communities some of which will feature original Disney characters and stories, in addition to original conten...