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Rapid Growth at RunKeeper Community

  • December 3rd, 2010 by Damian Davila
Available for both Android and the iPhone, the RunKeeper fitness app employs your smartphone’s GPS radio to track the distance, time, pace, route, and elevation of your jogs. If you haven’t heard from them, then it’s about time because PCWorld selected RunKeeper as the ‘Run Smarter’ app among best apps available for multiple phone platforms. There has been explosive growth… Read more

FilterFoundry Brings Visually Creative Professionals Together

  • October 1st, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Making it as a professional artists, of any kind, can be incredibly difficult. The avenues into employment often seen obscure and esoteric in nature, with people finding it hard to get noticed by prospective clients. This is because large scale publishers and design agencies have their own ways of recruiting creative workers, whilst companies who may need to hire the… Read more

Bumped.in Hopes to Connect Commuters

  • September 10th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Bumped.in is a recently formed social start up that is hoping to become a big hit by bringing travelers together. The site works by users setting up their travel itineraries online, these in turn go on to create the foundation of Bump Walls, on which a member can place comments, pictures and videos relating to their travel experience along that… Read more

It’s Official: Music Has Gone Social

  • July 20th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
The hottest singers, rappers, and musicians out there today have taken the industry to a whole new level by bursting onto the social media scene and owning it with a fierce passion. They have raised the bar, making tweeting, updating your Facebook status, and posting on YouTube just as essential part of being a successful artist as coming out with… Read more

How to Travel the Social-Media Way

  • May 24th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Image courtesy of Twitter.com Another travel season has arrived, and many seasoned world travelers will be cranking up the RVs and dusting off the sky miles. In a tough economy however, it can be a real challenge to get a decent vacation without spending a fortune. Welcome to the age of technology, where a little elbow grease at the old… Read more

Miami to Host 2010 Internet Dating Conference

  • January 11th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes the 2010 Internet Dating Conference to be held in Miami, Florida from January 27th-29th. The iDate 2010 conference is the largest gathering of internet dating service providers, social networking executives, mobile telecommunications executives, media executives, vendors and other leaders in the social media industry. Exhibitors will also be on hand to showcase the… Read more

Farmville Maker Zynga Raises $180 Million

  • December 28th, 2009 by Orrett
Tired of all those Farmville updates from your friends asking you to weed their gardens, fertilize their blueberries and send you gifts? Well you probably won’t be too happy at the news that Farmville’s creator Zynga is now valued at between $1.5 and $3 billion thanks to the $180 million that Digital Sky Technologies (D.S.T) has dropped on the company.… Read more

Social Media Unleashes Some of the Best Travel Deals In Town

  • October 8th, 2009 by Tisha Tolar
People who think social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, revolve solely on celebrity feuds or old friends catching up might just being missing out on the deal of the century. Many big businesses like airline or national retailers are quick to Tweet a deal before the word spread through other mediums.… Read more

Social Media Love for Book Readers

  • May 22nd, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Do you still read books? I mean not eBooks, but normal paper-books. Well, I do because to m nothing can substitute a good book in the evening before going to bed. Today, you can love books the social media way (no wonder, huh?). Here are two excellent examples of web 2.0 communities for hardcore book lovers:… Read more

How Dads Meet Online the Web 2.0 Way

  • May 7th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Moms have very solid online presence. There are mommy bloggers, mommy networks and mommy communities. But what about dads? Don’t they want to share ideas either? Here are just a couple of examples of how dads meet online: Odadeo is a newcomer in the social media world and already got very positive reviews from a number of reputable blogs. The… Read more