April 29th, 2008 by Social Guy

vzaar launch of its free video service for eBay listings in the United States. Using vzaar, eBay sellers can quickly and easily add video to their eBay listings to showcase their products and gain a competitive edge. The core service is available to all users for no charge. Special features tailored to the needs of PowerSellers are available for a low monthly fee.
“Video is the perfect medium to demonstrate the condition of our products. It allows us to show potential buyers a 360 degree view of the product, to hear the machines or motors we sell, and the opportunity to get a feel for who we are as a seller,” said eBay seller Jack Fitzgerald from Industry Recycles. “When we post with a vzaar video, our item gets more visits, more bids and a higher sales price. Viewing the videos, our buyers see and hear exactly what they are getting for their money, and that means a lower return rate.”
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April 29th, 2008 by Social Guy
Volkswagen of America, Inc. launches a multi-platform national polling effort to find out exactly what the people want. Utilizing media, technology and user-generated content like never before, the campaign allows consumers to engage in live online and mobile polling. A real-time mouthpiece of the people’s collective voice, user-generated live polling begins at the hub site, vw.com/whatthepeoplewant , and then spreads across the web and in-market. The initiative is part of Volkswagen’s new global brand platform, Das Auto, and underscores its fundamental message of It’s what the people want.
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April 29th, 2008 by umambo

Umambo.com, is the social network for the entertainment industry, the place where you as an artist , musician , dancer , filmmaker , comedian , model or any kind of entertainer, can interact directly with your fans, other people in the show business and even talent agencies.
Umambo offers exposure by giving you the tools to build a website within the site. With the advantage of adding modules and new pages to your personal portfolio, you can manage the way you want to express your self.
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April 28th, 2008 by Social Guy

Silverpop, a leading provider of on-demand marketing technology, has closed a $15 million round of funding. The funds are earmarked for international expansion, R&D acceleration and to fund additional acquisitions to round out the company’s on-demand marketing suite. The D.E. Shaw group’s venture capital unit, a new investor, led the round along with existing investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson and others. Silverpop is the only company that has consistently been named by JupiterResearch as one of the top two enterprise oriented email service providers each of the last four years.
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April 27th, 2008 by Social Guy

The BBC Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now. Every 6 hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks on the web.
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April 27th, 2008 by Social Guy

JYGY, mobile social networking, is all about exploring and sharing with your friends. It’s cool little place where you can hang-out, create your own private mobile services and use them for whatever you want. You can add friends, SMS them, share pictures, and interact via WEB, WAP and SMS.
Joining JYGY is now easier than ever, just text ‘SIGNUP’ to 695949 (MYJYGY) from your mobile. Works for all mobiles in the USA. When you log into JYGY for the first time, you see the Dash page, this is where they put little widgets with various information and content for you. You can rearrange the page as you like. You can also add more stuff to it, just go to your account tab and customize it. While you are on the account tab, you can also set up your communication preferences, contact information and more.
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April 26th, 2008 by Social Guy

eVOC Insights, a customer experience consulting firm, and RelevantView, a leading technology provider of Web-based research solutions, announce the release of a new syndicated social networking report, “The Changing Face of Social Networking - Move over MySpace, There’s a New Kid in Town”. This report explores the proliferation of social networking sites and identifies what key attributes are required to become a leader in this new and rapidly growing space.
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April 26th, 2008 by Social Guy

StumbleUpon, one of the most popular ways to discover new Web sites and videos on the Internet, announced that it has reached a major milestone of five million registered users and almost five billion ’stumbles’ since its debut in the fall of 2001 — with over one billion ’stumbles’ to-date in 2008 alone. A ’stumble’ equates to a Web site delivered to a user when they press the Stumble button on the StumbleUpon toolbar. Read More »
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April 26th, 2008 by Social Guy

Ning is an online service that allows users to create their own social networks and join and participate in other networks. No technical skill is required to set up a social network, and there are no limits to the number of networks a user can join. Users of Ning social networks have access to functionality similar to that of more well-known social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace. Various features allow users to read news or learn about related events, join groups, read and comment on blog entries, view photos and videos, and other activities as set up by the network creator. RSS feeds let users subscribe to updates from specific parts of the social network.
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April 25th, 2008 by Social Guy

whereIstand is a user driven opinion aggregator and social network that discovers, organizes and presents a wide variety of news, opinions, debates and issues discussed all over the Web using proprietary search technologies and a user-generated content model.
whereIstand.com’s online community organizes Internet content into context by opinions and affiliations for searching and comparing. This allows users to find, state and compare opinions they deem important to similar opinions of public figures, organizations and other community members in areas covering politics, sports, health, arts & entertainment, business, etc. Read More »
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