ShareThis, the universal sharing platform that makes it simple and easy to share any online content, has added more than 15,000 publishers in the 3rd quarter – bringing the total to over 60,000 active publishers that use the ShareThis platform to gain greater insight into what content is being shared, how it is being shared and where it is being shared to.
ShareThis is the universal sharing platform that makes it simple and easy to share any online content. With the click of a button on a webpage or browser plug-in, ShareThis allows users to seamlessly access their contacts and networks from anywhere online and share the content through email, IM, Facebook, Digg, mobile SMS, etc. without ever leaving the current page.
Enterprises are increasingly interested in applying key concepts that have emerged in the Web 2.0 evolution of the consumer Internet — user-generated content, collective intelligence and social networking - to extend the value of traditional people management processes already in place within their organizations.
LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, launches new Intelligent Applications (InApps) platform to enable companies to develop professional applications for LinkedIn’s over 30 million members. To kick-off the launch, LinkedIn has worked with a selection of leading companies whose solutions help professionals with various activities ranging from file sharing to project management to business travel.
Nine applications that you see live on LinkedIn include Amazon, Box.net, Google, Huddle, Six Apart, SlideShare, Tripit and WordPress as well a Company Buzz application developed by LinkedIn.
AOL redesigns homepage to allow consumers more customization and access to 3rd party content from one location; continues strategy to open AOL.com to 3rd party content and services. Brand new homepage will let consumers access multiple social networking services directly from AOL.com, becoming the first major portal to offer direct access to information from major social networking sites. This follows the move last month to provide access to multiple e-mail services from the AOL.
The new social networking feature allows consumers to post status updates to multiple social networks at once, and provides profile activity information, including new friend requests, status updates and mail notifications from services such as AIM, Bebo, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and other third-party sites.
Today, Oosah extended the capabilities of its easily customizable & embeddable rich-media widgets to allow people to build widgets with pics, videos, updates and more from sites like Twitter, YouTube, Craigslist, MySpace and Flickr.
With the new Oosahs capabilities, people can now share their favorite content from major sites and consolidate it into a single, linkable, shareable, embeddable widget without having to register for an Oosah account. The widgets can be embedded into blogs, websites, social networking pages or e-mailed to friends, and can be created in just three steps:
Playfish, a developer and publisher of games for social networks, has completed a new round of funding led by Accel Partners and Index Ventures. The $17 million Series B investment will be used to continue Playfish’s mission to become the leading company in social games, a sector which promises to play an increasingly important role in the future of the gaming industry.
Kevin Comolli, from Accel Partners and Ben Holmes from Index Ventures, will both join Playfish’s board of directors.
October 31st, 2008 by Social Guy
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