29 November 2010
Alicia Keys organizes celebrity charity campaign to raise money for World AIDS DayLady GaGa, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and other celebrities will be signing off social networking sites in a campaign to raise $1 million USD for charity.The campaign, called Digital Life Sacrifice, is by Alicia Keys? cha...
25 November 2010
?Ethics and Social Networking Sites: A Disclosive Analysis of Facebook?A new research paper announced today, explores the idea around whether social networking sites such as Facebook are or are not ethical.The paper, published by Emerald Journal Information Technology & People, was written by Ben Light, a professor of digital media and Kathy...
24 November 2010
New Facebook App allows customized version of website for Facebook tabsWix, a free website builder platform, has today announced the launch of its new Facebook application that allows owners of a Facebook Page to create a version of their website for Facebook.The Facebook application is available only to individuals and businesses that have buil...
23 November 2010
Online community for dog lovers around the world launchesMy Doggy Life, a social networking and blogging community has launched for dog lovers around the globe.On MyDoggyLife.com, dog owners can keep a record of their favourite moments with their dog, upload and share photos and videos and share and give advice with other like-minded dog owners....
22 November 2010
WhosHere social networking iPhone and iPad App to support several new languagesLocalisation iPhone and iPad application WhosHere has announced that the rollout of its social networking App in several languages; Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.The application, which first launched in July 2008, saw rapid growth in its first months ?...
19 November 2010
Best community award goes to knitting and crochet site Ravelry in last nights .net AwardsThe .net Awards 2010 last night saw popular social networking site Ravelry win the award for best community site against the likes of social network giant Facebook and micro-blogging site Twitter.The win comes less than a week after the site for crafters tha...
18 November 2010
Genealogy site MyHeritage announces new features to connect familiesPopular genealogy site MyHeritage.com has today announced a range of new features for users building their family tree.The Israel based company, which has more than 7,000 family trees created every day, has entirely revamped its service offering by enabling free customization an...
17 November 2010
Yahoo! unveils plans for new social and local service at Web 2.0 SummitOne of the longest standing web giants Yahoo! has unveiled a host a range of product and content offerings with social media and localization at the core.The announcement, which came at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday, says that the improved products will deliver Yahoo! cu...
16 November 2010
New photo sharing app on iPhone launches as ?a personal network?A new application based network has just launched. Called ?Path?, what the makers are billing as a new ?personal network? The Path will first launch on iPhone.Dave Morin, one of the early Facebook staffers and founder of Path comments, ?Path is the personal network. A pl...
12 November 2010
New funds transfer application called The Vault soon to come to FacebookThe launch of a new peer-to-peer funds transfer application has been announced today. Named ?The Vault?, the Facebook application is designed to allow users to transfer money to others directly to their bank accounts.Top Line Ventures, the ?corporate owner? of The Vaul...
11 November 2010
Businesses to offer exclusive deals to Facebook users via the social networks localisation platformSocial networking giant Facebook has unveiled the next step in its plans for online offline dominance. Via its recently launched localisation platform Places, where Faceook users can ?check in? to a specific location and/or venue, its introdu...
09 November 2010
Report suggests only 1/3 of Brits take to social media ahead of holidaysAccording to a new report out today by World Travel Market, just one third of British travelers are taking to social media to research their holidays prior to setting off.The 2010 Industry Report, which details a poll or both people within the travel industry and 1000 consum...
08 November 2010
The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation in brand push ahead of World Kindness WeekWorld Kindness Week, which runs from 08-13 November 2010 sees The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation (RAK) unveil its new social media powered website.From today, visitors to randomactsofkindness.org are able to create a profile (either directly through the si...
04 November 2010
LivingSocial to opens to businesses in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Liverpool and NewcastleSocial commerce company LivingSocial has today announced the launch of its social deals for local businesses in six new UK cities and one in the Republic of Ireland.LivingSocial, which was named as the 25th most valuable start-up in the ...