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Yahoo Enters in Content Sharing Partnership with Twitter
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on February 24, 2010
Yahoo has announced a partnership with Twitter that will provide them a bigger window onto the social networking scene while pushing the exposure of the Twitter micro-blogging service.
The Twitter partnership will transform Yahoo into a highly customisable social experience that enables both Yahoo and Twitter users to enjoy integrated content without ever having to travel between the two platforms.
Google Acquires Aardvark Web Service for $50 Million
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on February 12, 2010
Google Inc. has bought Aardvark, a free question-and-answer Web service for $50 million.
Aardvark was formed in 2007 by Horowitz and three others - two of whom are former Google employees. It lets users ask questions online that are routed to friends and friends of friends. The goal is to get relevant answers on any topic as quickly as possible.
Trend Micro Releases Future Threat Report
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on January 2, 2010
According to a newly released ‘Trend Micro 2010 Future Threat Report’, cloud computing and virtualization, while offering significant benefits and cost-savings, will expand the playing field for cyber criminals.
AirMe to Launch Photo Sharing Service PhotoWall in India with Microsoft
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on November 10, 2009
US-based AirMe has launched PhotoWall, an online photo sharing service that allows users to upload pictures from mobile phones, tag them and send to their Flickr or Facebook accounts.
AirMe has signed an agreement with Microsoft to promote PhotoWall in India and also manage advertising sales on a co-branded site MSN.PhotoWall.com.
Wildfire App - Promote Services and Products on Social Web
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on November 5, 2009
Wildfire is an online software application that enables businesses and organizations of all sizes to easily create their own attractive, branded interactive campaigns. The campaigns may include sweepstakes, contests, give-aways, incentive-based surveys etc.
It even allows you to simultaneously publish them in multiple social network sites such as Facebook, MySpace and on their website.
The Wildfire App makes it easy for you to create and run interactive campaigns within social networks and to automatically integrate your campaigns with social features like newsfeeds and friend invites so that word can spread virally.
You can also use the Wildfire app to run interactive campaigns on your company’s website. This is a great way to turn casual web visitors into more engaged customers or to encourage them to spread the word about your company to their friends.
Share and Discover Tips, Tricks and Advice with Others on TipsBase
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on October 30, 2009
Tips and Tricks are often useful snippets of Information that helps you work around many kind of situations.
What is TipsBase ?
TipsBase is a website that allows you to share and discover small tips and tricks. These tips can be on any subject you can think of.
TipsBase’s Categories
It features over two dozen categories such as Autos, Business, Careers & work, Computers & internet, Dating, Education Family etc, each with subcategories, where you can post tips.
If you’re looking for advice on something specific, you can either browse by category, or use the keyword search at the top of the page to find a relevant tip if there’s one available.
TipsBase’s Social Networking Feature
Accounts at TipsBase are free, and the service has a ever growing community of tippers providing a wealth of information in all of the site’s categories.
Once your tip is posted, other TipsBase members can rate it, comment on it, or share it with others on sites like Facebook, Digg, and Reddit.You can even add the tips you like to your favorites and return to them later.
Get Rewarded For Your Social Activity on Vyoom - A New and Feature Rich Social Network
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on September 1, 2009
Vyoom is a new social network that offers advanced social capabilities and true real-time data streaming in both public and private networks.
Vyoom Rewards Program
Vyoom awards points for social activity and through its friend referral program. This way it offers an extra incentive for you to interact with the site and grow your personal network.
The Vyoom Reward store has over 300 items to choose from including HD and Plasma TVs, digital cameras and camcorders, iPods and iPhones, game systems, computers and more to be redeemed with Points.
They also have many innovative social features such as a private & public stream, social channels, hotspots, friend locator and the RPilot.
Social Stream Feature
Vyoom ‘Social Stream’ is a constantly updated list of the latest status updates posted by both your friends and other members of the site. The Social Stream is broken down into two sections: the public stream, which shows every update posted to the site by anyone, and the private stream, which shows updates posted by your friends. Read the rest of this entry »
GizaPage - Aggregates All Your Social Network Profiles At One Place
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on August 28, 2009
GizaPage helps you manage all your social network profiles from a single place. It’s a great tool for those who have multiple profiles and find it hard to manage them.
The concept of this kind of website seems good but unless it lets you interact with social network contacts in the same way as you can interact on those networks, it won’t become very popular.
There is already an international version available for this type of concept – Power.com
MySpace Plans To Acquire Social Recommendation Music Service ‘iLike’
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on August 18, 2009
Social networking website MySpace is reportedly close to acquiring iLike, a social recommendation music service for $20 million.
iLike, which launched in 2006, with over 50 million registered users, is the top music application on Facebook, with nearly 10 million using the tool a month.
Takkle - Online Social Community for Young Sports Players, Athletes, Coaches and Fans
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on July 30, 2009
Takkle is a dedicated social networking site for students, athletes, coaches, and their fans.
Takkle - Online Social Community for Young Sports Playes, Coaches and Fans
Takkle Features
If you are a high school or college athletic, you can create your personal profile, share videos and photos. You can track and view stats, and can even stay connected with your team coach and college sports recruiters for advancement opportunities.
The site gives players the ability to compare rankings with others across the country, watch video footage of everyone’s best moves, and connect with other players.
There are some specific to Takkle, including nominating other users for Sports Illustrated Faces in the Crowd, and winning user-created competitions called Throwdowns.
Takkle used Nitro’s activity tracking and Challenge functionality in combination with the Nitro Trophy Case Widget, to quickly design and implement a solution that increased the desired behaviors by up to 55%.
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