Entries Tagged as 'Social Networks'

LinkedIn Opens Up New Search Platform to Everyone

After testing its new full-featured search platform for a couple of weeks ago, LinkedIn is now ready to roll out the new search feature to you and me, yes to all of use LinkedIn users. According to the official LinkedIn Blog, “the new search platform is redefining the way professionals go about finding talent, business [...]

Social Network Status Update Generator

How many hours have you wasted trying to come up with something cute and spunky to put as your status on Facebook or Twitter? How many OMG and blog updates did you miss while you racked your brain to impress your friends with your clever status update?
Well, no longer do you have to waste your [...]

Photographers Get their Own Social Network

Despite the fact digital photography or traditional photography have seen an explosive growth the past year thanks to the slew of affordable entry-level and mid-level digital SLRs, it’s very seldom that I encounter a new social network geared for this growing nich of digital photographers. So, it wa delighted to chance upon the Photography Network [...]

Let Your Reputation Speak for You With Venyo

Trust: It’s an issue that most of our relationships hinge on.  Some believe, without it, we have nothing.  It’s hard enough to find people we can trust that we have actual human contact with.  So how the heckfire are we supposed to put our faith into anyone or anything that we communicate with online?

Local Search Engine City Search To Add Social Features

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 [...]

Google Profile on the Way to Becoming a Lifestreaming Service?

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 [...]

Facebook Ensures You’ll Never Forget Birthdays Again

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 [...]

Windows Live Service Gets More Social

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 [...]

Just in Time for the Holidays, Social Gift-Giving WebGiftr Launches

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 [...]

Google Toolbar for IE Gets the Orkut Icon

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 [...]

Shrekster Offers a Social Networking Site for TheatreOgres

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 [...]

UpToUs Lets you Connect with Parents in your Trusted Groups

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.