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A social networking post aggregator

The problem with social networking is that it is so social. As you get more deeply involved with the various social networking services you'll find (or have found) that it expands your online things to-do list remarkably quickly. This is because social networking has developed so many separate and effectively isolated 'channels.' There's Twitter, Identi.ca, Friendfeed, Seesmic, Plurk, Facebook, Brightkite, Pownce, ...it's a long list that will most likely get longer.

Top 10 Social Networking Sites

Here are my top 10 picks for the best social networking sites. Social networking sites are places where people can go online to meet other people and create their own "friend" list. Blogging, music, videos and photo albums are a big part of what makes a good social networking site into a great social networking site.

Digital Music Provider Aims To Compete In Social Media Market

Digital Music Provider Aims To Compete In Social Media Market - WaTunes.com, a leading digital content provider that helps music artists, record labels, and distributors sell their music on iTunes has announced its plans to enter the social media market with their new site WaTunes 2 scheduled to launch on September 1st of this year. WaTunes 2 is a social media distribution service that provides not only digital services for music artists to sell their music on iTunes, but also welcomes the fans to listen to free music from the WaTunes 2 catalog, rate & comment their favorite albums, meet new friends, and download music on iTunes. “By combining core elements of digital content management, social networking, and Web 2.0, we’re able to create a system that caters to a wide-range of demands from both the artists and fans from around the w

Ten leading platforms for creating communities

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Leading Social Network Blog Mashable Kicks Off Inaugural U.S. Summer Tour

SAN FRANCISCO - The leading blog for social networks and social media, Mashable, will launch tomorrow a series of nationwide social events celebrating the technology industry and those who lead, power, and embrace it. This will be Mashable

Leading Social Network Blog Mashable Kicks Off Inaugural U.S. Summer Tour

SAN FRANCISCO (Business Wire) -- The leading blog for social networks and social media, Mashable, will launch tomorrow a series of nationwide social events celebrating the technology industry and those who lead, power, and embrace it. This will be Mashable's first official tour covering seven cities in less than a month. The first leg of the tour will cover the West Coast, starting with today's event in Seattle, then San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Open source social networking app thrives in China

The popular social networking site Facebook just announced a Chinese version, but similar Chinese-based Web sites such as Xiaonei and Hainei have been struggling there. However, since April, UCenter Home, an open source social network service based on PHP and MySQL, is pushing open social networking in China.

Leading Social Network Blog Mashable Takes Nation by Storm with Second Half of U.S. Tour

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 2008--The leading blog for social networks and social media, Mashable, continues its U.S. Summer Tour 2008, hitting the hottest technology hubs across the nation. Next stops for the social network juggernaut are Austin, Miami, Boston and New York City. This is

What Are Social Networks Good For?

Over the years social networks have changed from the simple sites they used to be to the all inclusive sites they are today. Meeting friends is still the staple of a social network, but now there's so much more. Social networks are for everyone, not just the kids.

14 Reasons You Should Join a Social Network

Over the years social networks have changed from the simple sites they used to be to the all inclusive sites they are today. Meeting friends is still the staple of a social network, but now there's so much more. Social networks are for everyone, not just the kids.

Ignore Facebook and Ignore Your Audience; Social Marketing Journal Can Help

(Prudent Press Agency)--- Boston, MA -- Social Marketing Journal has become the industry go to blog for invaluable education on the topic. Social Marketing is an area that all organizations will have to eventually dive into. Social marketing is an area which society as a whole is just scratching the surface of. Facebook and MySpace is just the beginning. This is a very powerful means of connecting to a very large audience but it is not as easy as it looks.

Pringo Adds Micro-blogging to Social Networking Solutions

Pringo, provider of white-label online community platforms, announced that the latest versions of its social networking solutions will include micro-blogging features. This social networking platform allows customers to employ Twitter-like functionality. Micro-blogging merges the one-to-many broadcast model of blogging with a network model of a social network. For marketers it acts as a direct channel to potential customers and also acts as a channel for feedback.

How to Connect with your Guests through Social Media

PARSIPPANY, NJ -- Web 2.0 is no longer considered an “innovation”. It’s a standard. The internet is now a place for sharing and social interaction. The smartest businesses in the world are using this social interaction to their benefit – through blogs, streaming video, and online communities, where people come together to trade links, ideas, and information 24 hours a day. There’s a good chance that your hotel can benefit from marketing through social media. I’m going to walk you through some of the ways you can do so, and increase your profits along the way.

How to Connect with your Guests through Social Media

PARSIPPANY, NJ -- Web 2.0 is no longer considered an “innovation”. It’s a standard. The internet is now a place for sharing and social interaction. The smartest businesses in the world are using this social interaction to their benefit – through blogs, streaming video, and online communities, where people come together to trade links, ideas, and information 24 hours a day. There’s a good chance that your hotel can benefit from marketing through social media. I’m going to walk you through some of the ways you can do so, and increase your profits along the way.

Social Media Expert Chris Brogan to Speak on Blogs, Social Networks, and More at First Inbound Marketing Summit

Social media expert, Chris Brogan will be speaking on September 8, 2008, at the first annual Inbound Marketing Summit, http://www.InboundMarketingSummit.com/.

Social Media Expert Chris Brogan to Speak on Blogs, Social Networks, and More at First Inbound Marketing Summit

Social media expert, Chris Brogan will be speaking on September 8, 2008, at the first annual Inbound Marketing Summit, http://www.InboundMarketingSummit.com/.

Social Media Expert Chris Brogan to Speak on Blogs, Social Networks, and More at First Inbound Marketing Summit

Social media expert, Chris Brogan will be speaking on September 8, 2008, at the first annual Inbound Marketing Summit, http://www.InboundMarketingSummit.com/.

The Benefits Of Social Networking For Your Online Business

Social networking is now being utilized by online entrepreneurs as an effective Internet marketing strategy for their own businesses on the World Wide Web. In fact, making use of social networking can be very beneficial on your end, such as:

Yogurt Social Network Scrapbook HTML Injection Vulnerability

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Hands on: Regator, the filtered social blog aggregator

Social news sites like Digg are a great way to get a bird's-eye view of what's going on in virtually any topic without having to subscribe to feeds from an insurmountable number of individual sites. A number of competing aggregators have emerged over the last couple years, all of which take different approaches. Regator is the latest, and it melds social news features with a web-based RSS reader. Ars Technica went hands on to see if Regator has a shot at being the one news source to rule them all.

Social Search Engine Scour.com Launches

Scour.com launched as a "meta" social search engine, which encourages voting and commentary on search engine query results called from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Scour differentiates itself from other social search, ratings, and community sites in that it lets users vote and comment on search results, provides privacy control, gives weight to preferred engines, and lets people redeem search points for VISA gift cards. Scour pulls search results from the top three search engines. From there it relies on feedback to make the results ever more relevant. After enough votes on results, a search result can rise or fall in ranking which will make listings across all the engines more relevant on Scour.

Social Application Program To Offer Free Web Hosting For Facebook And OpenSocial Developers

Sun and Joyent Inc. have collaborated on the development of social applications for Facebook and OpenSocial environments. The collaboration will provide, "up to 12 months free web hosting on Joyent's Cloud, a flexible first-class infrastructure powered by OpenSolaris on Sun's ultra-scalable servers, as well as training on web-scale application development, the program lets developers deploy their social applications on an entirely open infrastructure at no initial cost."

Social networking sites a bonanza for spammers

Berlin - Web sites for career networking are proving a virtual bonanza for cybercriminals. As the users of corresponding social network platforms often reveal many personal details, the pages provide a rich source for spammers to gather data, says Katrin Alberts from the German Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology (BSI) in Berlin. The information included there is increasingly being used for personalized phishing attacks. Career networking sites also offer criminals the chance to address employees in a inconspicuous way which, performed adeptly, can cause them to reveal valuable corporate information. "For that reason we advise that social network users reveal as little personal data in their profiles as possible," Alberts says.

Online social networking sites are hacker playgrounds

The logo of social networking website 'Facebook'. Computer security researchers on Thursday warned that online social networking websites are playgrounds for hackers who can easily take advantage of people's trust.

appssavvy Releases Social Media Planning Tool Designed to Connect the Dots Between Developers, Brands and Agencies

appssavvy Tool Aggregates Social Media Application and Platform Data From Any Leading Social Network, Including Facebook and MySpace, and Establishes Relationships Between Developers and Advertisers

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