May 17th, 2009 
Social Guy 
Extending its social entertainment strategy, hi5 announced a partnership to distribute RockYou‘s popular RockYou Pets game to hi5′s 63 million global users through the hi5 Games channel.
RockYou will exclusively accept hi5 Coins, hi5′s virtual currency, for payments in the hi5 version of the game. The partnership marks the first time a major social site has opened its payments platform to a leading social application developer, enabling better monetization opportunities for both companies.
May 16th, 2009 Social Guy 
38% of US mobile phone owners recall seeing advertising on their cell phones in the first quarter of 2009, although for Smartphone (such as iPhone) users, 59% recalled seeing mobile advertising. For Smartphone users, the number one format is mobile web advertising, while for regular phone users, it is SMS.
Brightkite, the company that brings social networking back to the real world, and GfK Technology, a leading market research agency, today released their latest Mobile Advertising Report (MAR). The quarterly MAR is a tool to help marketers and their agencies monitor and understand the fast-changing mobile medium.
May 16th, 2009 Justin 
I would like to introduce to you a new online personal finance service moneyStrands. moneyStrands is an innovative, easy-to-use online personal financial assistant for busy people who want more control over their financial lives. It automatically gathers data for financial accounts, including savings, checking, and credit cards, providing users with an up-to-date, accurate, unified view of their finances.
May 14th, 2009 Social Guy 
BraveHeart Women unveiled a new community that brings together women from around the world to share and receive inspiration. Through conversation, compassion, and community, the site empowers women of all ages to discover their own voices, expand their potential, and be the change they want for themselves, their family, community, and the world.
May 14th, 2009 Social Guy 
At Google’s Searchology event, the company declared realtime search as its biggest challenge. Meanwhile, OneRiot released the first realtime search engine that crawls and indexes content behind links shared on Twitter, Digg and the wider social web (filtering out spam/noise to deliver signal).
OneRiot allows people to find the most reliable, socially-relevant blogs, videos and articles being shared right now from across the web. Filter out spam and conversational noise to deliver the fresh, reliable and relevant search results. In essence, OneRiot does for the social web what Google does for the static web. (more…)
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