) December 18, 2008 -- Friendster, Inc., a top 20 global website based on traffic and the #1 social network in Asia, today announced that the all-new Friendster Blogs and Forums are available to Friendster's over 90 million members worldwide. Both products have been enhanced with new features and redesigned.

Friendster

MeterNet's WebPage VoiceMail (WPVM) Inbox Gadget is now available on Friendster, the No. 1 social network in Asia.

) April 2, 2009 -- Friendster, Inc., a top 20 global website based on traffic and the #1 social network in Asia, today announced that it has further strengthened its reseller partner alliances by appointing Admax Network as the official Indonesia reseller partner for online advertising and sponsorship campaigns sold on Friendster. Admax Network will provide advertisers standard, custom and innovative ways to launch marketing programs on Indonesia's #1 social network.

Globe Subscribers Can Now Browse Friendster from their Mobile Phones All Day for P20

Globe Subscribers Can Now Browse Friendster from their Mobile Phones All Day for P20

Connect to your friends on your favorite social networks. OrSiso currently supports: Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Friendster, Twitter, AIM, MSN Messenger & Yahoo! Messenger.

) May 14, 2009 -- Ooga Labs, a technology greenhouse that has spun out companies such as WonderHill (www.wonderhill.com) and Medpedia (www.medpedia.com), today announced that Kent Lindstrom has joined as an executive overseeing development of a new company targeting the multi-billion dollar "local" space.

Officially launched 9 days ago, (Friday October 12, 2007), Nexodex.com is the first stand-alone sophisticated web-based contact manager, enabled with info sourcing from social networks.
Users can create a complete custom stand-alone Contact Book with the click of a button. The most novel aspect of the service is the patent-pending synchronization technology which finds differences between the users custom Contact Book and info sourced from the Nexodex.com social network (as well as others). The user can choose updates/info they want to pull in, and what they want to ignore.

The new buzzword in the Web 2.0 world is social networking and social application development is further helping it propagate to masses. This social networking has come in limelight for community building, connecting friends and recently for creating new business opportunities.
A newer trend with the growth potential is application development for social networking sites. Various social networking sites are offering API or development platform to build social applications that can be plugged in to the site. With common platform coming up like Open Social this application development task has become smoother and web entrepreneur can now utilize write once and run anywhere feature through such common platform.

The Webpage VoiceMail Inbox Gadget is now available on Orkut, Friendster and Ning.

August 14, 2008 --
Casuals Online 3D - A New Way of Social Networking in Australia
Word of warning - You might Get Addicted to Casuals Online 3D!
Whether you're an avid or a casual surfer of the internet, most likely you've heard of the term social networking. Social networking is the term used to describe the act of interacting with others online, through the use of blogs, mail, shoutouts, or other methods from a social networking site. You're most probably familiar with sites like MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, etc. My first social networking site I used is Friendster. I do not use it anymore as I'll tell you why - next.

) December 18, 2008 -- Zoosk, the fastest growing social dating network in the world, celebrated its first anniversary today and announced it now has 12 million users. The company also announced it has won a 2009 People's Choice Open Web Award in the "Dating and Romance" category. During the past year, Zoosk has made 150 million connections for its users and it has expanded from one social network site to now five, including Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, Friendster, and Hi5. The company has also launched www.zoosk.com as a destination site to capture users who are not on social networks.

Today independent video game publisher, Enigma Games, announced its game lineup for 2009. Among the list of games, is the long awaited sequel to top selling strategy game Warriors entitled 'Wargods Online'. Wargods Online will lead off this year of impressive games with a beta launch on the popular social networking sites Myspace, Facebook, Hi5, and Friendster.

) April 10, 2009 -- What do you get when you combine an interactive and engaging presentation, a plethora of free and fun flash toys, and a heart for social networking? The answer is FreeFlashToys.com, an easy to use, innovative new site geared towards social network users. FreeFlashToys.com launched this past week and is aimed towards social networking users looking to add their own photo slideshows, kissing booths, family stickers and interactive pets to their profiles and blogs. Users can chose from several different interactive toys that will connect with their online lives.

FreeFlashToys.com presents SimPets!

) January 6, 2009 -- WebmasterRadio.FM, the premier free, 24/7 Internet business radio network focused on the B2B marketplace, is pleased to announce the premiere of a new weekly program in conjunction with the Social Networking Conference Series called "Social Networking Now".

Social Networking Now will feature exclusive interviews with CEOs and executives of some of the premier social media and social networking companies in the world. The interviews will be conducted by show hosts Mark Brooks, the Editor of Social Networking Watch, and the organizer of the Social Networking Conference, Marc Lesnick.

) October 9, 2008 -- 10to1.com, a social voting site, announces their new 10to1 Button, which provides an easy way to add voting and social networking to your site or blog. The button is one line of code that you add to your blog, website or article that quickly and easily introduces social voting and interaction to your readers. Because there is a lack of interaction on most sites, adding the 10to1 voting button quickly gives your users an easy way to give feedback on what matters to them.

) June 29, 2009 -- Measured as a network of websites, FamilyLink.com announced today that it is now a Quantcast Top 100 site, marking it as one of the most popular websites in the United States.

Quantcast, a leading Internet audience tracking service, ranks websites based on the number of unique people who have visited each domain.

According to Quantcast, FamilyLink attracted more than 7.9 million unique people in the U.S. and more than 12 million worldwide in the past 30 days placing the FamilyLink.com Network #99 in the Top 100 most popular sites.

) August 6, 2009 -- OLX, one of the largest classifieds sites in the world and direct competitor with Craigslist, is joining forces with hi5, a fellow global powerhouse. Already providing services to many social networks such as Friendster, MySpace Latin America, Fotolog and Sonico, OLX's new partnership with hi5 has immense potential to benefit both companies by providing additional exposure to the international audiences that each targets. The partnership makes the 70 million unique visitors each month across 90 countries on OLX available to hi5's global user base of over 60 million monthly unique visitors worldwide.

) September 16, 2008 --
vyrl mkt, Inc., a new channel for social network promotions and
marketing, is pleased to announce the filing of a new patent application
on June 19, 2008, another addition to the portfolio of patents held by
vyrl mkt (http://www.vyrlmkt.com).
Entitled “Social Behavioral
Targeting Based on Influence in a Social Network,”
the patent application breaks new ground in the area consumer
classification and the targeting of promotional information.

) May 10, 2009 -- OLX -- the largest international classified site on the web -- raises an additional $5 million making the total raised to date $28.5 million.

OLX

Only Classified Site to Operate in 87 Countries and 39 Languages; Funding to Support Company's Aggressive Global Growth Strategy And Continued Technology Leadership

) January 24, 2009 -- pYzam.com has launched a completely free and customizable photo slideshow maker. Their new slideshow creation process allows even novices to design their own high quality photo slideshow in a matter of minutes. With this new tool pYzam has improved on two of the most difficult parts of creating a slideshow: uploading photos and customizing the design.

Photo Slideshow

) April 10, 2009 -- CDNetworks (KOSDAQ: 073710), CDNetworks, the world's third largest, and Asia's #1, full-service content delivery network (CDN), today announced that Watercooler, Inc.com, developer of the most extensive network of sports and TV communities, has deployed CDNetworks Web Acceleration services for its online sites. The service was installed to ensure smooth fan viewing during the huge surge in traffic on Watercooler's FanSection site during the March Madness™ bracket selection on "Selection Sunday," reputed by ESPN to be the highest annual traffic day for sports' websites.    

) March 24, 2009 -- Social networking website SocialGO has entered the market for adult social networks, by setting up Zocku.com this month. Zocku is a dedicated platform for creating monetized adult social networks.

With social networking communities becoming more commonplace, the web has become more social across all types of websites, and adult websites are no exception. Online adult communities are growing faster than ever before offering users a rich experience to browse content, make friends and share their personal videos.

) March 9, 2009 -- Ubikwiti offers Facebook users a free, 'no strings' software-as-a-service (SaaS) Personal Expenses application - hosted on US-based Amazon.com servers.

Click here to find out more.

Ubikwiti's announcement enables Facebook users to use Facebook to record money-in ('Top up my balance') and money-out ('Record my expenses').

According to Ubikwiti CEO Tim Loving, "Given the current global economic downturn, Ubikwiti believes its new Personal Expenses application will assist individuals and families to budget and tightly manage their income and expenses."

) July 29, 2009 -- MyTrybe.com today launched the first social network that connects users to their most like-minded people. Users can now interact with their most behaviorally similar people - their "Trybe" - like they do with friends and colleagues on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other popular networks.

"Everyone naturally gravitates to people who share personal values. They can be hard to find and become friends, colleagues, lovers, and sources of valued information," says CEO Daniel Gluck. "MyTrybe facilitates the connecting and communication between you and your most like-minded people."

) January 21, 2009 -- WebmasterRadio.FM, the premier free, 24/7 Internet business radio network focused on the B2B marketplace, is pleased to announce the premiere of a new weekly program in conjunction with the Internet Dating Conference Series called "Inside Internet Dating".

Inside Internet Dating will feature exclusive interviews with CEOs and executives of some of the premier online dating companies in the world. The interviews will be conducted by show hosts Mark Brooks, the Editor of Online Personals Watch, and the organizer of the Internet Dating Conference, Marc Lesnick.

) October 31, 2008 -- Planetwide Games Inc, creators of the MashON suite of creative social media applications announced the MashON 2008 Halloween Comic Strip Contest, which begins on October 31, 2008 and ends on November 15, 2008. The MashON Halloween Contest is the first in a series of three MashON Holiday contests for 2008, where participants will have the opportunity to create and share their favorite holiday stories at MashON.com.

2008 MashON Halloween Contest

) July 22, 2009 -- The Branning Group has just launched a feature-packed, independent social networking platform. This package will allow investors and businesses to launch their own social network (like MySpace, Facebook, etc) targeted towards a local and/or niche market. The first site that launched off of the platform is bluecanvas.com; a social networking site geared towards the artist community.

Branning Group

) November 5, 2008 -- The Wayzon Project is a new venture designed to provide Internet users with a simplified way to find and interact with others that share their same interests. This innovative enterprise is formally announcing the launch of their Web site, Wayzon.com.

The goal of Wayzon.com is to optimize the way people network and socialize online by connecting users through their interests rather than social connections. Wayzon founder, Paul Holcomb states, "Many people are connected via popular social networking sites, but they have no idea what their connections are interested in. They may be connected to a subject-matter expert or fan of the same sports team and never know it."

) March 20, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the standard for connecting content with the social web, today released the results of a study comparing campaign performance data for the two primary types of brand advertiser widgets: "Social" and "Utility." The study found that as a group, Social widgets outperformed Utility widgets, when installed by users on Social Network pages, in the categories of User Interaction, Widget Longevity, and Widget Virality

) May 14, 2009 -- Travelscream, the leading provider of travel deal distribution and social media marketing solutions for the hospitality industry, today announced a partnership with Where I've Been, a leading travel application provider and social network with more than eight million users worldwide.

- MXit users can communicate with contacts across instant messaging platforms
- This will create a bridge between its mobile users and pc-based internet social network users

- MXit users can communicate with contacts across instant messaging platforms
- This will create a bridge between its mobile users and pc-based internet social network users

) September 17, 2008 --
vyrl mkt, Inc. (http://www.vyrlmkt.com),
a new channel for social network promotions and marketing, is pleased to
announce the acquisition of an existing patent application, titled “Group
Profiling with Electronic Offers,”
from Internet Consumer Exchange, Inc., on August 12, 2008.

Social networking as it exists today poses mounting challenges in maintaining users privacy, but new privacy-minded social networks offer a solution.

) September 17, 2009 -- The variety of accessible content on a website is of vital importance when it comes to engaging users and consumers according to Reality Digital, the leading provider of social network software for brands and businesses.

The rise of social media as a marketing tool has meant that brands have had to look at all possible avenues in their efforts to make their brand stand out. The creation of a brand focused social network is one of the key methods of tapping into online audiences, and - as with the majority of online marketing initiatives - content is of huge importance.

Noypf is a global Filipino social network that connects you with Pinoys around the world. Noypf brings Filipino social networking closer to you and is the best place to meet new friends.

) March 8, 2009 -- Extensions, Inc. (OTC: EXTI) today announced that it has launched its EXT Social Network at www.EXT.com. EXT outfits users with all the tools they need to create their own micro-social network. Users are able to host multiple profiles, control content visibility, embed items with a single-click, and unite with others in a way that increases effectiveness and collaboration. We believe our toolset unlocks the power of social networking as a utility, instead of being simply a novelty.

WWW.EXT.COM

) October 15, 2008 --

Gigya U.S. & Worldwide Reach

News Facts

) March 12, 2009 -- Only ten months after its launch, the new social network Gays.com has reached the milestone of 50,000 members. Gays.com is the world's first LGBT social network for real friends, and has already become one of the most popular gay communities on the web.

Screenshot of Gays.com