Entries from March 2008

Hi5 Adds Russian Language

A month ago we have reported that Hi5 added Chinese language support and now they have announced also support for Russian language. This is already 15th language that Hi5 have added and I think they will continue the work adding also other language options.
As Hi5 are also saying there are reason for adding Russian language [...]

Smack Your Way Into Social Networking with AllSmackTalk

How do you make the grueling world of competitive sports and their devoted fans into harmony? Give them a social networking platform where they can smacktalk for all they want virtually. That’s what AllSmackTalk, the sports social network, is all about.

Cancer Society Asks You to Share Hope on New Online Community

The American Cancer Society has launched SharingHope.tv, a video community designed to put people’s cancer-related videos under a single roof. The focus is on the people this deadly disease impact, and their stories of hope, courage – and quite bluntly – heartbreak.

Create Your Own Social Shop in Facebook

What else can you not possibly do in Facebook? You can connect with friends and colleagues, share photos and images, share blog feeds, search for jobs, goods and services, and list goes on and on. Adding to the list of useful things that you can with your Facebook profile is an application made by [...]

19 Microblogging Platforms that Let You Blog Anywhere, Anytime

With the growing popularity of Twitter, and Pownce catching up, microblogging is making it big among bloggers and tech personalities. Microblogging allows users to write brief text updates and publish them in microblogging platforms. These text updates gets viewed by their network of friends in the same platform. Updates can be done via text messaging, [...]

Social entrepreneurship, People Empowerment, Social Relevance, It’s an UnLtdWorld

Reading the elevator pitch for UnLtdWorld and what it’s all about gave me a headache. Creating a social network with a broad coverage is a big task in itself, what more if it aims to change the world? The UnLtdWorld site’s tagline says:
“UnLtdWorld empowers people to generate greater social impact in the real world by [...]

Older Women Meet Younger Men at Cougared Dot Com

Demi Moore. Geena Davis. Susan Sarandon.
What do these lovely Hollywood starlets have in common? MEOW! They are call cougars. And should they become single in the near future, they have their own social network, Cougared.com.

OurPrayer.org Brings the Power of Praying to the Social Web

Call it divine intervention or what, but I’m possibly being reminded to renew my faith being born a raised as a catholic. And that reminder had to come in the form of a niche social networking site, OurPrayer.org which I stumbled upon while researching for an article to write for Rotorblog.

Jaxtr Brings Voice to Social Networking – Literally

Since 2007 Jaxtr has brought voice to social networks, Websites and blogs by enabling click-to-call functionality. Without any software downloads, users can link their phone number to their online network without exposing their digits for the world to see. Receive or make international calls for a fraction of what the phone company charges.

Know-Who Makes Job Recruitment Social, Even Pays Rewards

The social networking and web 2.0 phenomenon surges on to job recruitment with Know-Who.com. As the name of the site suggest, if you know who can perform job opportunities posted on the site, you can recommend them and if they are hired by the company who posted the job ad, you get a referral fee. [...]

Tooth&Claw Pits Humans Against Vampires in Facebook

There are many games in Facebook but none of the caliber of Tooth&Claw, a monstrous multiplayer game. If you are familiar with MMO gaming genre, you’d certainly be familiar with Tooth&Claw.

Mommies Rejoice As The Knot Adopts The Bump

Babies are big business.  In fact, we seem to have become a baby-obsessed culture.  Just ask J. Lo, who’s poised to make upwards of $4 million for snapshots of her newborn twins.
TheBump.com, a well-established destination for pregger moms hopes this trend continues.  In fact, The Knot is so confident that it will, they’ve pumped out [...]