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OLX and hi5, both challengers to dominating juggernauts in their respective fields (online classifieds and social networking), have teamed up to...

• Source: techcrunch.com
• Date: Aug 6, 2009

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Larry Page should have been in a good mood. It was the fall of 2007, and Google's cofounder was in the middle of a five-day tour of his company's...

• Source: wired.com
• Date: Jun 28, 2009

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Italian PR professional and former Microsoft Italy marketer Vincenzo Cosenza sent us an interesting visualization today. Below is a map of the world,...

• Source: readwriteweb.com
• Date: Jun 7, 2009

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Since the proliferation of the...

• Source: mashable.com
• Date: Feb 28, 2009

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It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, we continued our Best Products 2008 series with...

• Source: readwriteweb.com
• Date: Dec 13, 2008

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"Koobface" is the name of the Trojan worm that's been making its way through the social networking site Facebook lately, but to the site's users, it's...

• Source: readwriteweb.com
• Date: Dec 11, 2008

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Facebook platform for third-party applications is rightfully considered to be the most open one for third-party developers to host their applications...

• Source: profy.com (Company Blog)
• Date: Nov 18, 2008

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Los Angeles-based Shopit, which develops a platform to allow users to buy and sell products on social networks, announced support for Ning this...

• Source: socaltech.com
• Date: Oct 14, 2008

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Ning has followed in the footsteps of other social networking services like MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, and started to integrate with Google...

• Source: sociableblog.com (Company Blog)
• Date: Oct 12, 2008

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Ning, a company that lets anyone create a social network, is integrating with OpenSocial, the standards platform that makes it easier for any...

• Source: venturebeat.com
• Date: Oct 10, 2008

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Friendster might not be the first name in social networking in the US, but in Asia it’s the dominant player in many countries, with a userbase...

• Source: mashable.com
• Date: Oct 2, 2008

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It has come into notice that Facebook has recently been allowing Facebook Groups discussion and wall posts to pop up in Google search results....

• Source: startupmeme.com
• Date: Sep 8, 2008

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Six months ago, OpenSocial was nothing but a list of promised partnerships. But the social network application platform backed by Google has made a...

• Source: techcrunch.com
• Date: Aug 20, 2008

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Friendster, the social network that’s big in Asia, has launched an OpenSocial version of its nine month old developer platform. This means any...

• Source: venturebeat.com
• Date: Aug 18, 2008

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Metrics firm ComScore reports that 132 million unique visitors logged onto Facebook in June 2008, up from just 52 million in June 2007. 117 million...

• Source: valleywag.com
• Date: Aug 12, 2008

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Weblins sind ja auf vielen Webseiten. Die TopCloud zeigt nur einen kleinen Teil davon. Weblins verteilen sich über das genze Web, aber auf großen...

• Source: weblin.com (Company Blog)
• Date: Aug 9, 2008

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We reported last month about Facebook accusing the German social network, StudiVZ of copying Facebook’s design and the German social network...

• Source: startupmeme.com
• Date: Aug 8, 2008

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Facebook and MySpace most definitely have snubbed past and dwarfed almost every social network in the web-sphere. Friendster is just another one of...

• Source: startupmeme.com
• Date: Aug 5, 2008

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ImageChef looks as if it’s targeted at MySpace users with all the glittery graphics you can create with it as well as all the animated images that can...

• Source: startupmeme.com
• Date: Aug 4, 2008

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OpenSocial is Google’s developer platform for social networking applications. It’s the backbone behind applications on MySpace, Orkut, Friendster,...

• Source: mashable.com
• Date: Aug 3, 2008

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