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Geo-location based check-in sites have started to become all the rage recently. Foursquare and Gowalla have shown just how ready some people are to announce their favorite locations to the entire world, with millions have signed up to try out the latest craze in mobile media since its arrival last year.
New start-up Neerlife differentiates itself from the crowd… Read more
MTV has released a new dating game on Facebook helping the unsocial get more sociable. I Woo You is produced by the television network and Stone Creek Entertainment. It is a casual game in the vein of Farmville but more like a game show with MTV reality show tie-ins.
Players get to customize their own avatar and cloth them… Read more
Most modern lives are made up of many complex social bonds to different groups of people. In the real world there are certain social conventions which we uphold, often behaving very differently depending on whether we are talking to our boss, partner, friends or work colleagues. In cyberspace though things have become a little bit more open, with conventions… Read more
Twudy.com describes itself as a Twitter-style site that is aimed at providing a safe environment for teen girls to meet up and discuss the subjects they love. On the surface this certainly seems like a good idea, but sadly the site currently seems to fall far short of actually achieving such a lofty vision.
Instead Twudy currently stands as… Read more
The growth of social media has provided a plethora of tools that can help us organize our lives in new and interesting ways, which is exactly what Philadelphia based start-up Sqoot is hoping to achieve with its venture to get users to write about their dream activities in the form of social wish lists.
Sqoot asks it users to… Read more
GroupTabs is an interesting new social networking venture based out of New York City. The basic premise is somewhat similar to Foursquare, in that GroupTabs is orientated around having its users check-in to various locations around a city. Where it differs from Foursquare is that instead of offering virtual points and icons for being well traveled, GroupTabs will offer… Read more
In recent years the development of social web based platforms and their integration with real-time group-based gaming has bought about a whole new type of market, one that has extended itself well beyond even the wildest imaginations of its creators. Companies such as Zynga have seen unprecedented success with games like Mafia Wars, using Facebook to spread their influence… Read more
Determining the most promising social media ventures is very subjective. True, it is possible to deduce the potential (to an extent) based on the track record of the production and marketing team.
However, any “dark horse” can receive an unexpected cash injection along the way, or simply take off among the public. After all, how many people would have… Read more
Do you own a website with great content and dream to connect to power social media users to share it across various social networks? When from mow on you will know where to go.
Twitter’s banking an awful lot on the assumed success of their search engine, largely powered by the millions of people who tweet. A large part of that mechanism is the Trending Topics list, and it’s failing. In fact, it’s possibly becoming more harm than good.
