28 August 2008
The MAMA Group plc has today announced the launch of the new Surfstock website ahead of the two day Surfstock Festival this weekend (29 to 30 August 2008). Through the new website, Surfstock is looking to become a popular online destination for the surfing community within the UK. Surfstock.co.uk, which was built by Estonian based content ...
28 August 2008
BuzzCity, mobile development company has received $10 million USD in growth investment from South African investors, Naspers. The $10 million buys Naspers a 10% stake in the Singaporean company.BuzzCity will use the cash injection to further develop its core products, including mobile social network myGamma. BuzzCity intend to focus ...
20 August 2008
Walt Disney?s Disney Family.com has today launched a new social networking site for parents aptly named Disney Family.com Community. The new social network aims to provide a place online where parents can connect with each other based on hobbies, age(es) of children, family setup and geographical location. Mum?s and dad?s can interact by p...
20 August 2008
Publishing and event organiser company GDS International has entered the world of social networking this week through the launch of Meet the Boss, a business networking site for the financial services sector. The B2B network has soft launched in beta, with a call to executives in the financial services industry to register, there will be a...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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
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
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...
01 August 2008
On
most generalist professional networking platforms, the option to post a ?live
resume? in the form of video footage promoting one?s skills to prospective
employers can seem something of a gimmick.
For dramatic artists and entertainers however, user generated video is
an invaluable tool, since it can enable them both to demonstrate t...
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....
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...