IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX:RIM) are taking mobile work far beyond email by delivering to mainstream business professionals the full line of Web 2.0-powered IBM Lotus® collaboration software and information on demand on the market-leading BlackBerry® platform.

The joint initiative enables customers to securely manage their communications, contacts and schedules and collaborate and network through social software, all from within the familiar, intuitive interface of their BlackBerry smartphones. This includes the general availability of the new BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections, IBM’s social software for business, at a time when eMarketer forecasts that mobile social networking will grow from 82 million users in 2007 to over 800 million worldwide by 2012.

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Vodafone has acquired a Danish mobile startup called ZYB for 31.5 million euros ($48.7 million). ZYB operates a social networking and online management tool enabling mobile phone users to back-up service for their mobile contact and calendar info with social networking tools that allow their to share the info with friends. The purchaser of ZYB is Vodafone Europe BV, a holding company of Vodafone Group, based in The Netherlands.

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BeenUp2.com is a fun and easy photo sharing startup that’s conversation and community driven. You take a photo with your mobile phone, send it to the site and it’s posted in seconds. Then your friends/family/others who are on the site can see what you’ve been up to and can comment in real-time.

It’s a lot of fun. You can attach locations to photos and see where you went in a day/week/month. Now you can see your photos or your friends’ photos plotted on a Google Map. Keep in touch with loved ones near and far. Also today they launched their iPhone app for it.

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With so many students, teachers, and librarians on Facebook these days, the social media site has become somewhat of a platform, offering developers a way to create and share applications for education. This, of course, is great news for online education, as it provides all sorts of great tools designed to make learning and administration easier. Check out these applications that represent some of the ideal tools Facebook has to offer for online education.

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StayPress is a collection of plugins that will turn a standard WordPress or WordPress MU into a property management and bookings system. So the StayPress system able to manage property rentals, hotel room rentals and more. The new StayPress system takes over from the previous clearskys.net collection of plugins and brings everything together into a more manageable and co-ordinated group.

Downloadable version of the StayPress plugins will be launch soon, they are also planning a hosted version of the system for those who do not want the trouble of running their own website. Read More »

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Comcast is adding a social media element to its services through the acquisition of Plaxo, a contract the two companies announced Wednesday afternoon. Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but the purchase price is consideration to be in the $150 to $170 million range.

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SocialVibe is a new social media platform that is revolutionizing the way people use social networks. SocialVibe is designed to enable interaction between people, the brands they love and the causes they’re passionate about. Members can create personalized badges by choosing their favorite brand sponsors and charities and then add these badges to an existing social media profile, such as MySpace, or a blog or Website.

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Scoutle, a social network site where users create personal webbots (Scouts) that walk through the Internet, while meeting other Scouts and connect to each other. Scoutle offers users a unique way of promoting their blog or website and finding other interesting users without having to do anything. Scoutle is best to describe as automated social networking for bloggers.

Using Scoutle is interesting because you are able to find interesting blogs without having to search for it and in the meantime promote your own blog only to fellow bloggers that are likely to be interested. Because of the algorithms, it is hard to manipulate and because your Scout is doing all the work, there is hardly any reason not to use Scoutle. Scoutle fully relies on how interesting your blog is, not the other way around. It just helps you to get the recognition and appreciation your blog/website deserves. Read More »

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Microsoft has released its highly anticipated WorldWide Telescope web application that brings together imagery from the best ground- and space-based observatories across the world to allow people to easily explore the night sky through their computers. WorldWide Telescope has been eagerly anticipated by the astronomical and educational communities as a compelling astronomical resource for students and lifelong learners, and as a way to make science fun for children.

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Nimbuzz today announces the UK launch of an application to provide mobile users and online communities with “free calls, chat and more.” Nimbuzz offers an all-in-one solution for free mobile VoIP calling, conference calling, instant messaging, chat and group chat, and photo and file sending across multiple IM communities, including Skype, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo!, AIM, Jabber and ICQ, plus 23 social networks, including Facebook and Myspace.

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