Social Networking

Blippy.com Is A Social Networking App For Your Credit Card

Blippy.com may be the stupidest idea ever destined for greatness and potential world domination.  It's a social network for spending habits.  According to founder Philip Kaplan, It answers the question "What are your friends buying?" The screnshot below provides a glimpse at what the world of socially networked credit cards will look like (image via Techcrunch): Central to the idea is that users will assign only one of their multiple credit cards to publish results on the system.  Th...
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Facebook Hits 350 Million Users, Updates Privacy Features

Facebook hit 350 million users last night, the site announced to its users in an open letter from founder Mark Zuckerberg.  Also announced was the removal of 'regional networks' (cities, countries, etc.), which were found to be a security and privacy hole that was not well understood by users.   Previously, all members of a regional network had complete access to each other's information as a default choice.  Now, users will have the choice of making their information available to friends, f...
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Events Social Network Hot Potato Raises $1.42 Million From Who’s Who Of Investors

Hot Potato, a Brooklyn social networking startup that allows users to create instant online communities around specific events, raised $1.42 million in first-round funding from a who's who of venture and angel investors. RRE Ventures and First Round Capital were joined by start-up incubator Betaworks, Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer; Thrillist chief Ben Lerer; Jared Kushner, owner of The New York Observer; Strauss Zelnick of ZelnickMedia; Hunch co-founder Chris Dixon; About.com co-fo...
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LinkedIn Custom Groups To Cost $600,000/Year

LinkedIn announced last week that it will be implementing a new paid group format for major corporate brands.  The format will be akin to a full-blown corporate marketing site hosted on Linked-In, and will be supported by a new interactive advertising format on the social network.  The groups will include video, downloadable white papers,  news feeds and allow complete interaction between the company and Linkedin's membership Unlike ordinary LinkedIn groups, however, LinkedIn will charg...
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Sysomos Integrates New Media and Social Networking Into The Enterprise

Sysomos has finally released Heartbeat 2.0, its social network monitoring and workflow management tool for the enterprise. Using Heartbeat can kep track of blogs and forum postings, Twitter posts and now Facebook.  It graphically represents sentiment and keywords used in postings on your company. It can also find and track the most influential bloggers and tweeters writing about your company and has an integrated project management function where users can assign tasks to team members....
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Oulook 2010 Offers LinkedIn Integration

Outlook 2010 is offering integration with LinkedIn directly from your Outlook Contacts screen. The feature, called 'Outlook Social Connector' is available as part of the Office 2010 Beta Version. The feature adds an 'Activity Feed' to your Outlook contacts, which track the recent LinkedIn status updates of your contacts directly from Outlook. Additional updates to Oulook 2010 include a list of recent emails and attachments sent to each contact.  Also promised is integration with Windows Li...
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Fring Released For Android

Fring, the social networking and VoIP app for smartphones, has just been released on Android.  The service allows users to make free calls using Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk or any SIP provider. From the website: fring™ is a mobile internet community and communication service that allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their online communities together. Using your handset′s internet connection, you can interact with friends on all your favourite social networks including S...
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Twitter to Get Rid Of ‘Suggested User List’

Isaac "Biz" Stone, Creative Director of Twitter, recently announced that Twitter will be removing the controversial Suggested User List from the site. Apparently, the fact that more Democratic politicians were on the list than Republican ones caused quite a stir.  Various celebrities and CEOs also felt slighted... In the list's place, Stone promises a more 'programmatic' selection tool.  We assume it will be more inclusive and allow the service to make recommendations based on each use...
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Who’s Looking At Your Facebook Page? There’s No Way To Know

Facebook has confirmed that any app or ad that claims to be able to show you who's viewing your facebook page is just selling you snake oil. In order to be tracked by an application, a user would need to specifically allow an application to track his or her actions. Period.  There is no other way to track user behavior on the platform. According to Facebook: Facebook does not allow users to track profile views or see statistics on how often a particular piece of content has been viewe...
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Tweets Can Now Be Listed As Status Updates On LinkedIn

LinkedIn announced a partnership with Twitter yesterday, which will allow LinkedIn users to opt to have their status updates go out via their Twitter account; and vice versa for their Tweets to be visible to their LinkedIn professional networks. Syncing your LinkedIn and Twitter Accounts Display Twitter on your LinkedIn Profile Seems simple enough... except that we bet that the majority of users of both platforms have vastly different identities and audiences on each of them. ...
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The Twitter Times: What We Thought Twitter Was Going To Be Before We Joined

Had The Twitter Times been around for the past few years, I would have been far more sympathetic to the Twitter phenomenon.  Regardles, it's an idea whose time has certainly come.  The Twitter Times provides a newspaper-style way of displaying news content contained in links tweeted by people you are following on Twitter, as well as selected items from those they follow as well. The Twitter Times - Video Tour from Maxim Grinev on Vimeo. Items are sorted based on how often a particular ...
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New Amazon Associate Program: Share on Twitter

Amazon just added  a "Share on Twitter" button, specially for Amazon Associates.   By clicking on this button, visible when you are logged into Amazon with an Associate account, the site will automatically generate a tweet containing a pre-shortened link to that page.  This link is personalized to your account - and any purchase resulting from it will credit you with a commission on that sale. the Amazon Associates ribbon For Twitter users with large followings, this has the potential to be a re...
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Google Improves Friend Connect, Adds New Features

Facebook is the undisputed leader in the social networking world.  Google isn't giving up in this particular front in the battle for Internet dominance, though. Starting today, Google's social networking offering 'Friend Connect' is adding new features and functionality which will allow site managers to offer social networking functionality to their users as well as allow visitors to sites to connect with each other. For site owners, a key advantage will be the ability to get more informat...
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