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September 1st, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Geo-location based check-in sites have started to become all the rage recently. Foursquare and Gowalla have shown just how ready some people are to announce their favorite locations to the entire world, with millions have signed up to try out the latest craze in mobile media since its arrival last year.
New start-up Neerlife differentiates itself from the crowd by…
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August 31st, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
MTV has released a new dating game on Facebook helping the unsocial get more sociable. I Woo You is produced by the television network and Stone Creek Entertainment. It is a casual game in the vein of Farmville but more like a game show with MTV reality show tie-ins.
Players get to customize their own avatar and cloth them with…
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August 30th, 2010 by SEM Contributor
Most modern lives are made up of many complex social bonds to different groups of people. In the real world there are certain social conventions which we uphold, often behaving very differently depending on whether we are talking to our boss, partner, friends or work colleagues. In cyberspace though things have become a little bit more open, with conventions and…
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August 30th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Twudy.com describes itself as a Twitter-style site that is aimed at providing a safe environment for teen girls to meet up and discuss the subjects they love. On the surface this certainly seems like a good idea, but sadly the site currently seems to fall far short of actually achieving such a lofty vision.
Instead Twudy currently stands as a…
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August 27th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
The growth of social media has provided a plethora of tools that can help us organize our lives in new and interesting ways, which is exactly what Philadelphia based start-up Sqoot is hoping to achieve with its venture to get users to write about their dream activities in the form of social wish lists.
Sqoot asks it users to finish…
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August 26th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Pharmaceutical companies that promote their products using Facebook Share application have stricter rules to abide by per the Food and Drug Administration. After the pharmaceutical group was Novartis was called into question for their misuse in promoting Tasigna, a medicine used to treat types of leukemia, the FDA has laid down more laws on social media practices.
Facebook Share application…
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August 25th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
GroupTabs is an interesting new social networking venture based out of New York City. The basic premise is somewhat similar to Foursquare, in that GroupTabs is orientated around having its users check-in to various locations around a city. Where it differs from Foursquare is that instead of offering virtual points and icons for being well traveled, GroupTabs will offer special…
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August 24th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Even the dead can hang on to their Twitter accounts in the afterlife. Social media hub, Twitter has finally set their policy for dealing with deceased user accounts.
When a loved one has passed away, kin of the user can reach out to the site’s administration and request that the account be either deleted completely or a permanent backup of…
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August 23rd, 2010 by Ann Smarty
In recent years the development of social web based platforms and their integration with real-time group-based gaming has bought about a whole new type of market, one that has extended itself well beyond even the wildest imaginations of its creators. Companies such as Zynga have seen unprecedented success with games like Mafia Wars, using Facebook to spread their influence virally…
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August 17th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Facebook is by far the hottest social media topic discussed today but do you have any idea how it was created? What’s the history of Facebook? How it all started?
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The year is 2003, Myspace is king of all social media and Mark Zuckerberg is just an unknown student busy working away on a psychology degree at Harvard. However,…
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