) December 19, 2008 -- Commuto.com, the first social bartering network, is pleased to announce that after extensive testing and reworking of the site, they are no longer in beta.

Commuto launched in beta during the summer and has received high praise since its launch from publications such as Mashable, Daily Candy, CNET, Financial Post and others. Through this publicity Commuto was able to develop a wonderful community of active and vocal users who have helped shape Commuto and ready it for its launch.

) June 17, 2009 -- RateItAll, the fun and social way to share reviews of anything, today announced the launch of its interactive review widgets, which allow site owners to quickly and easily add consumer review functionality to their sites, simply by copying and pasting. The new widgets are showcased on the websites of 100 launch partners ranging from web applications to products to local businesses.

) May 20, 2009 -- Favorpals, a world without money, thanks their loyal members for making their online bartering community the number one service exchange website.

Favorpals, a world without money!

Over the past two month, Favorpals has been featured in numerous TV shows and media outlets, including: 'The Today Show with Matt Lauer', 'No Cash No Problem', 'Bartering booms Online' by Farnoosh Torabi, 'TheStreet.com', 'How to Find Free Stuff' by Lori Bongiorno, 'Yahoo! Green' and many more.

Booya! Media creates social communities and live broadcasting tools. Using interactive chat and video tools, we host a variety of live events around each community. We allow our users to also broadcast live and chat with other members. Check out the unique features! •YouTube support for batch videos to run under your site•Live Broadcasting Subscription Model for Members•3D Video Wall, can be made viral into a widget as well•Chat TV with a Youtube playlist and Discussion Groups•No page design limits like Ning or other services•Video player with your branding for viral marketing•Low maintaince costs as your community scales (PRWeb Aug 3, 2009)

) September 18, 2009 -- Holosfitness.com now offers the ability to seamlessly connect the site with Facebook. New technology available on the site allows individuals to instantly create a profile on Holosfitness.com by leveraging their existing Facebook profile. For existing members, Holosfitness.com has created tools that make it easier to use the site.

Simply click on the Facebook Connect button on the top right of the Holosfitness.com profile page and the system will automatically link the user's Holosfitness.com and Facebook accounts. As a result, users will now be logged into Holosfitness.com whenever they are logged into Facebook. This simple step can make it easier to navigate between the two sites.

) June 30, 2009 -- As the world’s leading free online bartering network, Favorpals is always expanding its technology to ensure that its users receive the best bartering experience. With the newest addition of Search Favors, Email this favor to a friend, and post this favor on Twitter, Favorpals users easily find and exchange favors on this growing World Without Money.

Free Online Bartering

) 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 5, 2009 -- Yumbunny.com, a crowd-sourcing Internet service from Miracle Labs, recently launched its public beta. Yumbunny.com is a light-hearted site where users can upload their picture and have the community recommend matches for them via an embeddable widget. This widget can be added to MySpace profiles, personal websites, forum signatures, and any other place that allows embeddable html code. The site generates this code for the user as well as a direct URL link to the user's page on the Yumbunny site- yumbunny.com.

Yumbunny.com

) July 16, 2009 -- With the rapid growth of real-time content and activity feeds from sources like Facebook and Twitter, many people are struggling to keep track of multiple friends and interests that change day-to-day. Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading personalization platform for the Web, today launched a novel solution and industry first: drag-and-follow widgets. New Facebook, MySpace and Twitter widgets now enable users to instantly create new widgets to follow new interests simply by dragging and dropping any feed item to their personalized page.

) November 11, 2008 -- BlogCatalog.com, a fast-growing social network for bloggers and blog search engine, has launched BC 360, an embeddable tool that allows blog readers to perform custom searches on their favorite blogs.    

"With the BC 360 widget, bloggers can now help their readers search across all of their posts and social networks," says Antony Berkman, president of BlogCatalog.com. "It not only searches for content across on their blog, but also relevant links in their Delicious accounts, the photos they've posted on Flickr, or any number of the social networking sites."

) July 24, 2009 -- RateFoto.com has released a Photo Widget to rate MySpace Photos on a scale from 1 to 10. Find out how to get those results by using RateFoto.com's Photo Rater Widget. By adding the widget to the caption below any photo on MySpace a user will find out the results very quickly. RateFoto.com has all of the latest and greatest trends and designs available to suit a MySpace Users needs. Find out which photo of is the best. Use the RateFoto.com Photo Widget to get a score today.

RateFoto.com Photo Widget

1. Choose a design.
2. Add it to your profile.
3. Then let your friends rate the photo.

) September 15, 2009 - ClickSaya Communications Inc. today is pleased to announced that it has completed development of its Click-to-Call widget for facebook members. Facebook members can now initiate phone to phone calls simply by clicking on the ….More than 300,000 people have already signed up for a free and easy to use ClickSaya account, which does not require any download, headset or contract.

) October 20, 2009 -- "Being an expatriate in a new place comes with many challenges, such as finding the right people, job and accommodations and trying to hook up with your own community," says Scoubt.com founder Mr. ZAK. "Often the first approach for expatriates is to find someone who he can trust…from the same community."

This is exactly what Scoubt.com was designed to facilitate. The site, which was created following Mr. ZAK's own relatively recent relocation to London, is exclusively formatted to help expatriates connect with members of their new community.

) 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

) June 4, 2009 -- Active Modules, Inc, a leader in community management solutions, announces today the latest version of Active Social, an extremely customizable social networking solution that effectively builds and promotes a strong social community in a user-friendly environment. Active Social continues to leverage the latest technologies while also adding new features relative to the current social media trends. Twitter integration, advanced search options, unique web address capability and photo galleries are just a few of the newest features.

From now on, users of the most popular social network of the world, Facebook, can enjoy a cool app Funny Photo! Widget, allowing to make their profile page even more eye-catching and unique.

) November 3, 2008 -- Gigya, Inc., the largest widget and content sharing platform for the social web, today announced that it has created a widget for the Interactive Advertising Bureau The IAB widget was designed to provides easy access to the latest IAB news, upcoming events, standards and guidelines, and a feed of the IABlog, a recognized industry news blog featuring commentary from IAB President and CEO Randall Rothenberg

IAB Widget by Gigya

) October 20, 2008 -- The Grapevine Communities, a group of 200+ community-based social media websites across the country, are connecting people to their communities with local content by using features similar to MySpace, Craigslist, YouTube, Facebook and more.

TopekaGrapevine.com Screen Shot

) April 10, 2009 -- iGoMogul has helped several clients build popular online communities with different niches. iGoMogul builds websites from the ground up, helping clients create more than just an informational website. A few of iGoMogul's most popular communities cover a wide range of topics. Because iGoMogul makes the communities so easy to manage, their clients' social networks are beginning to flourish with very little effort.

Two of the newest communities are FriendlyBikers.com and MidlifeMingle.com. These websites include members pages, informational articles on their blog and message boards for members to read and contribute to as well as a slew of other features.

) February 26, 2009 -- Tweetfeed.com, a customizable presentation Web application that captures Twitter activity in real time, added three new features: real time topic trends, personal profiles, and topic widgets. The widget which can easily be added to any Web site or blog was created by BlogCatalog after it purchased Tweetfeed in February.

Tweetfeed is one of several tools developed around Twitter, the real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices. Currently, Twitter is used by more than 4.5 million people.

) September 30, 2008 -- The Schools United, the first social networking site dedicated to the education community, announces its recent launch. Designed to facilitate school networking on a global level, the site provides educational institutions and their staff members a meeting place for the sharing of materials, experiences and more - for free.

The Schools United

) March 12, 2009 -- Cerado, Inc., a provider of mobile and web-based software and services, announces the release of the SWSXi 2009 Unofficial Pocket Guide. Built with Cerado Ventana™, the new mobile application can be downloaded on mobile phones and other mobile devices. This new offering will serve as a roadmap for conference attendees to keep up with sessions, parties and other happenings at SXSW09, which kicks off this Friday, March 13, in Austin, TX. http://sxsw.com/interactive

Yuwie is a brand new social networking website that pays its users money. Where does this money come from? Well I am sure that you are familiar with other social networking giants such as Myspace and Facebook. These mega websites generate ad revenue of up to a million dollars a day. Myspace averages around 25 million dollars a month from ad revenue alone! And how much of this money is shared with its daily users? Absolutely zero. Now say hello to Yuwie. Yuwie is a website very similar to Myspace except at the end of each month they pay their users a portion of the money generated from ads.

) April 13, 2009 -- DateRaters.com continues their bold entry into the online dating community with the launch of 3 new Facebook applications and a Facebook Fan page. With the introduction of the new Facebook tools, DateRaters joins other innovative sites that are facilitating social networking within the dating community. Together, these offerings provide DateRaters' members with a new way to communicate through Facebook. "Combining social functionality with the DateRaters' platform opens up a host of new, differentiated online experiences for the dating community," said Anya Novik, Lead Developer at DateRaters.com.

) December 8, 2008 -- Webjam, (www.webjam.com) who provides branded social networking solutions, today announces the launch of their Premium Services for communities. These services allow end users to monetise their site with advertising, whilst brands, organisations and companies are now able
to add recurring subscription services to their branded environment by up-selling this service.

Subscription to Premium Services allows users to replace the Webjam branding on their website with their own, control advertising within their own network, create a branded registration process for new members and use their own URL, with access to all the standard Webjam tools including advanced co-editing and privacy features.

) May 13, 2009 -- AdviceYard.com -- a new local Yahoo Answers competitor -- beta launches its community based platform, providing members with an easier way to get questions answered while social networking.

A New Approach to Social Advice

The site is a New York centric version of Yahoo Answers where users can post and answer questions about a variety of topics. It also incorporates social media elements, such as the ability to create a profile, join a topic specific community, instant message, and make contacts.

) 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

SocialGo Announced Launch of new widget store that allow users to integrate features into their website.

) June 16, 2009 -- Play Outdoors announces the launch of the interactive Diddit widget on The Campfire Blog allowing people to discover and share their life experiences. With Diddit, Play Outdoors enthusiasts can share and explore many different kids outdoor activities based on preference and regional location.

Play Outdoors Diddit Widget

) December 17, 2008 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading widget and content sharing technology for the social web, announced today that it has incorporated the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) into its technology and user interface, offering Yahoo! as one of the platforms on which Gigya's millions of users can collect their favorite widgets. Gigya installs widgets to a container "Widget Wall" application it has developed for YAP, making hundreds of thousands of popular web widgets from thousands of publishers like RockYou and Jib-Jab immediately available to My Yahoo! users.

) October 9, 2008 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading widget and personalized startpage platform, announced today at the Facebook Developer Garage in Paris that it will soon offer full integration with Facebook Connect, enabling its users to: login using their Facebook ID; integrate their Netvibes activity feeds into Facebook; and share and comment on the rich media content, articles, widgets and news in Netvibes with friends on Facebook.com. Later this month, Netvibes will become the first personalized startpage and one of the largest Web properties to officially complete full integration with Facebook Connect.

) December 8, 2008 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading widget and personalized startpage platform, today announced at Le Web '08 in Paris that it has added OpenSocial compatibility to Netvibes Universal Widget API (UWA), the leading universal widget standard. Now developers can rapidly create a new generation of smart, social widgets that can easily and securely tap into users' social networks and run on virtually all widget platforms and desktops.

) October 22, 2008 -- The launch of favorpals, a world without money!

Favorpals is now open to the public, offering an alternative method to obtain necessities for life without the use of money. Embodied by its slogan, "A world without money," members can trade services in exchange for other services without the use or even mention of monetary value. Uniquely positioned for our challenging economic times, Favorpals represents a substitute to the monetary economy that allows exchanges directly between people.

) September 27, 2009 -- The extremely popular Envato marketplace sites (FlashDen, ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, AudioJungle and VideoHive) have just been given a total makeover with a fresh new design and a massive upgrade in features and functionality.

The Envato marketplaces are a family of niche sites which allow creative professionals to buy and sell digital items such as Flash files, website templates, videos, music, code and much more.

Since coming on the scene only three years ago in August 2006, the Envato marketplaces have been growing at an unbelievable rate. They now boast highly active communities, have over 200,000 members worldwide, and are home for tens of thousands of digital items available for purchase.

) November 6, 2008 -- A recently launched military social network connects members of the Armed Forces Community with each other and their families through new social networking capabilities.

The Armed Forces Community social network allows users worldwide to create profiles, showcase ribbons and badges, post videos in a YouTube fashion, find support, and start blogs, forums, and conversations with other members of the social network. In addition, members can search for other members with similar service backgrounds by zip code.

) April 13, 2009 -- For marketers looking to incorporate social media into their marketing mix in 2009, the challenge of how to get started still remains for most. With Sway's Shoutlet - a comprehensive social media marketing tool - combined with a customized training package, marketers can execute their own Web 2.0 campaigns and take advantage of the impact social media marketing provides, quickly and easily.

) February 9, 2009 -- 99Widgets Group launches 99Chats.com, a free flash chat room widget allowing bloggers, website owners and users at social networks, to create and place a free chat room in their pages easily allowing them to interact with their visitors.

99Chats.com free chat widget homepage

) June 23, 2009 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading personalization platform for the Web, today announced a new service to help users discover the exact content they crave and publishers deliver widgets to the right user at the right time. Netvibes Talk to Me is the first widget recommendation and distribution engine that performs on-going, intelligent analyses of users' widget behavior and the context in which widgets are used to deliver individually personalized and perfectly relevant widget recommendations. The service will be progressively rolled out to Netvibes' millions of users through the end of the week.

) January 13, 2009 -- LoonLounge facilitates the creation of social and professional connections through community membership. The concept behind LoonLounge is based on the knowledge that communities create an informal social assistance system. This form of assistance helps newcomers in the settlement process, affording them the opportunity to more rapidly contribute to Canada both economically and socially. That contribution will produce a healthier economy and well-integrated society that is advantageous to all Canadians.

InchkaChka.com, an Armenian social networking site, brings Armenians from all over the world to a unique place to find old friends, make new ones and network - all for free. Members are able to socialize in one central place by sharing ideas, photos, videos and music. They can also promote events and their businesses; chat and private message with other members; create blogs and polls, and much more. New features are added regularly and the network of members is growing quickly. www.InchKaChka.com (PRWeb Jul 21, 2009)

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