Palringo enables vocal instant messaging, picture messaging and text-based messaging over the iPhone’s data connection. Palringo works by integrating with several existing, popular messaging services: AOL’s AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Jabber and Windows Live Messenger. This also means people can use Palringo to contact their friends using iChat, Apple’s instant messaging (IM) client.
Palringo for the iPhone is free. iPhone owners can now download Palringo’s rich messaging service (RMS) application from Apple’s new App Store.
Clickable completes $14.5 million series B round of investment, led by Founders Fund, with additional backing from existing investors Union Square Ventures and FirstMark Capital. The funding amounts to a total of $22.5 million in capital, raised over the past 12 months. It will be used to accelerate Clickable’s momentum as the preeminent advertising solution for small and midsize marketers.
Clickable is an online solution that makes search advertising simple, instant and profitable. Clickable’s immediate activation and intuitive user experience make it easy for marketers to manage performance across all major search-ad networks, including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Based on the June comScore Media Metrix worldwide figures, hi5 grew 79% in the first half of 2008 – more than twice the growth rate of any of the top 10 social networks. According to comScore, the popular site’s monthly unique visitors increased from 31.4 million in December 2007 to 56.4 million in June 2008 – an increase of 25 million monthly visitors.
hi5, with its huge international user base, has nearly 20 million more unique visitors per month than other comparable sites in the social networking category, including Orkut, Bebo, and Friendster.
Do you have a collection of family videos sitting on a shelf? Do you use a webcam to chat with distant relatives? Videos are a great way to capture special events and communicate with your family, but until now, they’ve been hard to organize and share. From baby’s first steps to wedding anniversaries, from family reunions to family interviews, now you can use Geni to organize and share your family videos.
Adding videos to individual profiles and events adds another dimension to your family history. Your Family will be notified when you upload new videos, so they can view the videos and add comments. Uploading a video is easy, so get started today!
In the six months since its February 2008 launch in public beta, SocialVibe has surpassed the milestone of $100,000 charitable donations with a significant growth in membership. Additionally, SocialVibe has developed several new brand and charity partnerships, and has raised funds for 27 charities. Through partnerships, SocialVibe provides brands and charities solutions for engaging consumers and building loyalty.
it has helped members raise more than $100,000 in donations for charities. The platform mobilizes social media consumers to easily endorse the brands and causes they care about and distribute these alliances via a SocialVibe badge on social networks like Facebook, myYearbook, and MySpace; blogs; and personal web sites. By endorsing their favorite brands on online profiles, members earn points that direct donations to the charities they support.
Today social fund raising site Firstgiving released the results of a July 2008 donor survey. The findings indicate that that enabling support for a cause through a simple social platform brings both new donors and increased funds for non-profit organizations (NPO’s). Of the 326 donor respondents, 24.8% indicated that they would not have donated to an offline fundraiser.
Firstgiving also discovered that 68.3% of individual fundraisers found out about the Firstgiving website via communication directly from a non-profit organization and an additional 10.6% were brought to Firstgiving.com on the recommendation of a personal friend. The content presented on the customized fundraising pages helps individuals personalize their fundraising efforts and encourage new donors via new Firstgiving.com pages.
While video classifieds may not sound groundbreaking in the age of YouTube, applying personal video to classifieds is going to be the wave of the future. Classifieds sites are there a plenty but video classifieds site are very few google the same and you will what we mean. Studies show your customers remember 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear and over 50% of what they see and hear. You will sell items faster with video ads. Video ads get a 71% bigger response than simple text ads.
Adhysteria.com opens the door to the new generation of classified websites, the world’s first web 2.0 social video classifieds (video classifieds with social networking features). Users can post classifieds via their mobile phones also. With a few clicks of a mouse, customers can upload their own video commercials, recorded on their camcorders, webcams, digital cameras or camera phones. Ads are organized by category and location, and users can enter text descriptions, prices, thumbnail photos and tags along with their video clips. Now we have the added the main elements of Social networking for end users/advertisers to interact with each other and help in a better browsing experience.
July 31st, 2008 by Social Guy
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