Archive for July, 2009

MaYoMo ‘Social News Network’ Launches Beta

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MaYoMo (Map Your Moments), a powerful new social network for mobile citizen journalists and the most inspired alternative source for global, multimedia news content, launches improved beta version of its site.

Unlike other sources of world news, MaYoMo delivers independent, global news content with Web 2.0 convenience and flexibility. It is designed for both journalists and independent-minded, socially and globally aware readers around the world who need a new, socially-connected, real-time platform for global news reporting – and conversation about that news.

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China Unicom chooses GyPSii for 3G Mobile Social Networking in China

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GyPSii selected as the premier mobile social network for new UniSpace 3G SNS service from China Unicom’s Shanghai Unicom.

Now, more than 5 million Shanghai Unicom customers are able to download the GyPSii client directly on to their mobile device from the UniSpace website, http://space.uni-play.net. This roll out will expand to 130 + million subscribers in China. As part of the GyPSii community, UniSpace members can immediately start to create “geotagged” content for sharing in “real-time” with friends, family and the growing global community of GyPSii members.

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fring New iPhone Push Notification Version is Live

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Just a quick note to let you know that fring’s new iPhone version, including Push Notification, is finally out.

Whenever someone calls/chats you, you’ll receive a beep sound, as well as a pop-up window, telling you that your friend is trying to contact you. Once you click on that pop-up window, it’ll log you back into fring and take you straight to the relevant window.

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Nimbuzz launched Apple Suite – Social IM and VoIP on Mac and iPhone

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Friends on Nimbuzz call and chat with each other for free. They access their favorite instant messaging and social networks with one login and from one location, using the internet or Wi-Fi. Yesterday Nimbuzz launched Apple Suite – social IM and VoIP on Mac and iPhone, which underlines Nimbuzz’ commitment to the Apple platform, builds on this early dominance. As a natural step in the evolution of Nimbuzz’ platform-specific development and support strategy, the launch is designed to capture the enormous future growth potential of this platform.

The new Nimbuzz for Mac desktop client boasts a slick Mac look and feel and supports the widest range of instant messaging and social networks available from a single unified app for the Mac today, including Facebook, AIM, MySpace, Google Talk (Orkut), Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), ICQ and many more.

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5 Tips for Social Networking Sites to Successfully Implement Online Video

Successfully Implement Online Video

It’s no secret that video is an essential part of the social networking experience. While YouTube certainly set the early standard, other social networking websites have largely shifted away from YouTube embed codes in favor of their own branded video experiences. Their users are now sharing, syndicating, commenting.

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