Entries Tagged as 'Social Networks'

BizSugar: Content for Small Businesses

This is a Web site that offers the latest stories and news that is pertinent to small and medium-size business owners. Similar to Digg, it allows the readers to vote and “give it some sugar” if the enjoy the story. The website then ranks the stories by two categories: ones with the most sugar (in [...]

Tweetminster Gives Twitter a Political Side

For those who are questioning Twitter’s relevance and value, Twitminster could prove them wrong. What started as an ordinary Tweet conversation between UK’s MP Tom Watson and Alberto Nardelli at UnltdWorld and the Tweet Congress, led to a full-blown social networking tool for the benefit of the public, now known as Tweetminster.

Yahoo Starts Making its Mail Client More Social

Yahoo is rolling out some new features of its Mail client. These updates are all geared into making Yahoo! Mail a more social and useful web-mail applications emphasizing on quick access to Friends’ updates and seamless integration of third-party applications and services including Yahoo’s Flickr, Twitter and even YouTube videos.

World Economic Forum Embraces Social Media Tools

If there’s any indication that social networking and social media tools have become more relevant, it’s got to be the fact that even the World Economic Forum is utilizing some of the famous social networking and social media tools in advancing its cause and carrying out its socially-relevant activities. In time for its upcoming annual [...]

Bebo Gets a Make-Over, Launches Social Inbox Feature

AOL’s social networking site Bebo has a message to tell to the two top social networks MySpace and Facebook – they are ready also a top social networking site and they are ready to battle it out with the two top social networks. And with that, Bebo has launched their latest offering to the maddening [...]

TVLoop.com Connects Passionate TV Fans

TVLoop is was used to be just a Facebook application that brings TV shows on TV Fans’ profiles is now a full-blown social networking site boasting of 16 million registered members coming from various social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace and now boasts of 200 popular TV shows.

FriendFeed Goes International, Partially

You’d know when an online service is doing great and is bound for famedom when it becomes multi-lingual. Such as is the case of FriendFeed which just announced that everybody’s beginning to be the top choice lifestreaming service is now available in five more other languages. Aside from the default English, you can now set [...]

Poken Lets You Expand Your Social Network with a Wave of a Hand

Now this is a rather weird idea. Poken.com lets you expand your social network with a wave of your hand. How’s that sound to you? Weird right? But it’s true, using a Poken you can immediately connect with people you meet in the real world in your respective social networking sites. Provided of course that [...]

Social Networking World Forum

Next year you have a brilliant opportunity to attend two day conference dedicated to social networking and mobile social networking. Event will be held from 9th to 10th March 2009 in Olympia Conference Centre, London featuring speakers form large social networks, companies working in internet and mobile markets.
Here are some of the speakers:
Anthony Lukom Managing [...]

Social Search Engine Scour Gets More Personal

Remember the social search engine called Scour.com we covered not so long ago? Or are you still using it since then? Well, latest news coming from Scour is that it is introducing some new personalization features that will allow you to customize your Scour search experience including the ability to track your friends’ comments as [...]

Power.com Wants to Aggregate Your Social Networking Activities

With a killer name and a great business platform to boot, what could possibly hinder social network aggregator/start page/social network site Power.com from conquering the web 2.0 environment? We certainly could not think of anything. Power.com could very well make it big as it makes its way to the U.S. social networking fans.

Sling.com Opens Up to the Public and Becomes More Social

In a not so crowded online video portal market, we definitely have extra room for another player. Joining Hulu and the others is Sling.com with its premium, high-quality video contents all available online and ready for us to stream and watch.