Archive for October, 2011

EmoInstaller – A Charming Experience for Facebook Users

EmoInstaller - Facebook Emoticons

Since its inception in 2004, Facebook has become more than a social networking tool. To date, Facebook has over 600 million users around the world. Facebook is frequently used for locating existing friends, making new ones, finding jobs and for advertisement of individuals’ capabilities.

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Tight Lines Fishing – Catch the Biggest Fish on Facebook

Tight Lines Fishing Game

Tight Lines Fishing is a social fishing adventure taking place on Facebook, where players compete amongst each other online to catch the biggest fish. But it doesn’t stop there, they can also train their skills, customize and equip gear to catch bigger fish and explore the unique and colorful world around them. While exploring, the player will meet new friends and funny characters who have tricky quests to fulfill and lots of fisherman’s stories to tell.

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Yumety – Social Network for Dreamers, Meet People with Similar Wish, Desire, Dream or Worry

Yumety

Our true feeling comes out through our wishes, desires, worries and dreams. But most of the time we either ignore them or forget them and lose the opportunity to listen to our mind. And sometimes we don’t want to share with people we know . I have many wishes, desires and dreams that I wont share with my friends and families because I would feel too embarrassed and misunderstood. And I wished that I could find someone to share with those who wont be judging me and had similar wishes and desires – if you also think this way, Yumety is for you.

This NYC Start-up has a pretty unique approach to social networking. It provides a social platform where members share their state of mind and meet someone unknown but similar. You enter your wishes, desires, worries or dreams and its algorithm computes a character graph for you ( like your level of perception, emotion etc. ) and then it compares your graph with other members and suggest similar people with whom you can share, discuss or pursue a dream together.

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10 Things Benjamin Franklin Might Have Tweeted

Benjamin Franklin Tweeted

Benjamin Franklin Might Have Tweeted

If Benjamin Franklin were alive today, he would undoubtedly make use of Twitter to share is wisdom and his wit. In giving consideration to the possibility, we have come up with ten lines (fitting the required 140 character limit) that Mr. Franklin might have expressed in a tweet.

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Dropbox Raises $250 Million in Series B Funding

Dropbox

Dropbox, a service that lets people bring their documents, photos and videos everywhere and share them easily, has completed a $250 million Series B financing, today. Dropbox will use the funds to accelerate its rapid growth, make acquisitions, pursue strategic partnerships, and grow the team.

Dropbox has received a total of $257.2 million in funding ($7.25M in Series A). Dropbox has more than 45 million users saving one billion files every three days, and is on track to triple its user base in 2011.

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