CitySearch, a local-entertainment web site owned and operated by the InterActiveCorp or IAC is introducing social networking features in a bid to attract more advertising sales as well as entice users into sharing about local businesses. If you’ve been using CitySearch, these new features will let you highlight restaurant reviews and other recommendations by other [...]

I wasn’t really paying attention to my Google Profile until now when I read Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion writing about its new feature which lets stream photos to your Profile. If you’re using Picasa Web Album which is Google Photo uploading site, you simply tick on it to let Google Profile stream your most [...]

Frankly, I’m wondering why Facebook took this long to implement this feature or service. Friendster has a birthday reminder for a long time now, where it sends you Birthday reminders of your friends through email alerts. And I must admit that I found Friendster’s birthday reminder alerts pretty useful in ensuring that I get to [...]

Perhaps taking advantage of the growing popularity of social networking sites, Microsoft is almost short of turning its Windows Live Service into a full-blown social network. Microsoft has just rolled the new version of its windows Live service integrating various online services and tools for communicating and sharing. Among the new services being rolled out [...]

If you’ve been struggling to keep up with so many birthdays, anniversaries and other important events of your friends, family and business contacts, new social gift giving site Webgiftr might just be able to help you out.  Webgiftr an independent social site aims to help you out in remembering dates and special events and will [...]

I find it really amazing that despite the popularity of both MySpace and Facebook and Twitter and Friendfeed as a web application for connecting to people online, there are still some other social networking sites which managed to stay on, do their thing and gets ample membership base. One of this sites is the Google-owned [...]

Call it a spoof of Friendster, a take on Facebook, or simply a fan site for the huge green ogre we all know as Shrek, but Shrekstre is certainly a fun community for what they call as theater ogres or theatre fans. Shrekster which just launched recently, was created in line with the opening of [...]

The search for a social networking site that both fit parents and protects their kids continues. This time we have UpToUs, a new social networking site which allows parents to create their own groups of trusted parents to socialize and share their experiences with their respective kids, ages 3-14.

After introducing two new useful features, LinkedIn Answers and LinkedIn Groups, here comes the business professionals’ social networking site again with an equally useful and greatful feature – LinkedIn Events. According to the LinkedIn blog, LinkedIn Events complete the triumvirate of useful features that business networking professionals would probably need. And like the previous two [...]

By now, the victory celebration for President-elect Obama’s resounding victory may still not be over. And since we are all aware that the online world has contributed to President-elect Obama’s successful campaign and election, his technology advisors are not resting on their laurels and have launched Change.gov.

Ever wish you could get an answer to that pressing question at two o’clock in the morning?  Sure you could post a question on Yahoo! Answers, but you have no guarantee that anyone will answer your question quickly – let alone at all.  And if someone does answer, there’s no telling if they are an [...]

If YouTube has been trying but failed to monetize its vast collection of user-uploaded video content, MySpace seemed to have found a work-around with it. Through a partnership with MTV Networks and video ad company Auditude, the no. 1 social networking site is rolling out a new program that would allow insertion of advertising units [...]