) April 17, 2009 -- Circlid, Inc. today launched an advanced new social networking and storage service at http://circlid.com. The new service provides social networking among people, groups, and hierarchical organizations, as well as social storage, social email, blogging, micro-blogging, social bookmarks, and web pages and sites. The service is free of charge.

) 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.

) 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!

) February 18, 2009 -- Active Modules, Inc announces the release of Active Social, a social networking solution built with the flexibility to accommodate professional internal networks or personal networking. Active Social is developed based on the increased need for social networking products similar to large scale public social networking websites, but includes much more personal customization and flexibility.

) 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.

) 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.

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.

) July 13, 2009 -- CustomerVision received their General Purpose Commercial Information Technology Contract, effective May 2009, to sell IT software directly to the United States Government and State and Local Government under SIN 132-33. This award positions CustomerVision as a leading vendor in governmental needs for Web 2.0 Knowledge Management, Social Learning and Social Networking.

Government is a primary example where Web 2.0 Knowledge Management & Social Learning will catapult traditional methods

What areas will CustomerVision be useful?

) 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

) October 13, 2008 -- VidEngage.com today announced the grand opening of its video enabled social networking platform. Among a comprehensive offering of traditional social networking functions, VidEngage.com has launched a new video enabled community, in which users can create multiple video profiles for different purposes, such as for job hunting, networking, dating or communication. In addition, the platform includes new "video recording" functionality, virtually eliminating the need to capture, edit, upload and save video presentations, by using its "one-button-record" system.

) August 18, 2009 -- Brands need to harness the power of both mass social media and niche social networks to extend brand awareness to online consumers according to Reality Digital, the leading provider of social networking software for brands and businesses.

Mass social networks such as Facebook and Twitter can be used as effective crowd sourcing tools, as brands seek to reach out to a larger audience and engage them, whereas niche social networks dedicated to a brand can offer deeper consumer interaction. It is a combination of the two that reaps the greatest results and ROI for businesses.

) January 26, 2009 -- OneRiot, the social search engine that finds the pulse of the web, today announced Microsoft has selected OneRiot as a featured search provider for today's Release Candidate One (RC1) of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). Microsoft recognizes OneRiot and its unique ability to help users find the news, videos and products people are talking about right now.

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

) March 12, 2009 -- Wireclub Media Inc. -- We are pleased to announce that our "Social Rooms" embedded chat platform is now available for mass distribution. The service allows 3rd-party websites to host a customized version of Wireclub's vibrant online chat rooms at no cost.

What are Social Rooms?

Social Rooms are embedded, lightweight chat rooms that can be added to any website. Webmasters can choose between having independent rooms or rooms that are shared across multiple sites they manage. Profile integration is optional but free.

Why do you want one on your blog or site?

) June 29, 2009 -- Commuto has officially released their new community bartering widget, targeting social networking, gaming and blog type websites, based on the ever growing Commuto.com social bartering site.

"We're very excited to release our Community Widget, a first of its kind, which allows users to take their bartering communities and place them on their sites. Now users can create or join hobby specific communities like book clubs or more obscure ones like plant trading and place it on other sites.

) April 8, 2009 -- Today, SiteRapture (http://www.siterapture.com), a vertical directory of websites and online services, announced the release of its official list of social networking websites and related information.

) 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

) October 7, 2008 -- Slap A Story (http://www.slapastory.com), an online social community for writers and fans of reading, today announced the release of the second beta of its network.

Slap A Story provides a platform for authors to submit their stories and have them read and rated by people all over the world. The Slap A Story networks affords the simplest way yet for writers to publish their work online and for readers to access and read brand new stories and novellas every day.

September 5, 2008 --
Provo, Utah, 09/05/08 – Gruvie, a new social network aggregator that launched (www.gruvie.com) recently in beta, has experienced large growth over its first week as users are able to aggregate their social web content into one location. Gruvie is intended to make it easier for people to manage and share their online identities. The site currently brings together social network sites Facebook, Myspace, and Linkedin along with email from Google’s Gmail and Yahoo mail in ways that no other site has yet to do. Unlike other social network aggregators, Gruvie is the first to allow users to interact with their social network sites, not just passively see activity, making Gruvie the first truly Active Social Network Aggregator.

) December 9, 2008 -- Friendster, Inc., a top 20 global website based on traffic and the #1 social network in Asia, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the social networking pioneer a new U.S. Patent, titled "Compatibility Scoring of Users in a Social Network" (U.S. Patent No. 7,451,161). Friendster has been granted four patents since July 2006, validating the company's early and continuous innovation in online social networking.

Friendster

) April 20, 2009 -- After several months in private beta, Zahdoo is announcing the launch of a limited beta version of the product for public. Zahdoo.com redefines the digital interactivity for the user and augments it with socio cognition using built-in productivity and social networking applications. With features such as auto-tagging, MindU, CADIE- the semantic context guide, Zahdoo.com in essence elevates the human machine interaction by contextually capturing and pushing the relevant content to the users said Satyavardhan Kommareddy, head of product marketing for Zahdoo.

) 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."

) March 22, 2009

CMS Fruit (http://www.CMSFruit.com), an innovative and experienced Joomla specialty software company located in California, has announced the availability of a powerful new Joomla livechat extension designed for the popular Joomla CMS. JLive! Chat is a real-time communications extension that enables Joomla website operators to communicate with their clients on the website directly from the convenience of their workstations via the new Joomla live chat extension.

JLive! Chat - a joomla! live chat desktop application

) August 23, 2009 -- Marketing campaigns that incorporate a brand focused social network are more effective due to the increasing popularity of social media according to Reality Digital, the leading provider of social networking application software for brands and businesses.

Reality Digital have indicated that marketing campaigns that integrate social media activity, such as a social network dedicated to a brand, are far more influential in reaching out to key audiences than those that only focused on media content advertising.

To succeed in the crowded space of social networking sites people need to use layouts that are individual and different. Users of Myspace and other sites will now be able to choose from a zillion free layouts and find one that represents their choices in life.
1800freelayouts provides users with quality layouts that are user friendly and can be individualized. The team has studied the needs of social networking pages and created free layouts of every kind possible: sports, music, trekking, theater, books, nature lovers, and more.

Social networking is the rage and leading sites like Orkut and My Space among others vie for being No 1. Social networking sites that have versatility in layouts are popular with users as they lend individuality and character. 1888layouts.com understands user needs and attempts to provide a huge selection of websites with varied layouts.
1888layouts.com aims to be different it does not just provide access to social networking websites but educates online users on the websites as well as on how to use layouts beneficially, reveals a team member.

) April 16, 2009 -- LawLink is proud to announce the launch of the first social network for expert witnesses. "There are over 600,000 expert witnesses in the US alone," says LawLink CEO, Steven Choi. "It's only fitting that we would launch the first social network for expert witnesses as LawLink was the first social network for attorneys."

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Experts can choose from over 100 practice areas: From accident reconstruction to ballistics to handwriting authentication. Plus, LawLink is constantly adding new practice areas as requested by our members.

) August 24, 2009 -- More than a half billion people use online social networks, posting vast amounts of information about themselves to share with online friends and colleagues. A new study co-authored by a researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has found that the practices of many popular social networking sites typically make that personal information available to companies that track Web users' browsing habits and allow them to link anonymous browsing habits to specific people.

) October 9, 2008 -- The latest addition to focused social networking has arrived. Without much fanfare, the Federal Contractor Network (www.federalcontractor.us) was launched in August and is enjoying great success with over 2,000 members joining in less than two months.

) November 2, 2009 -- Ever wondered if people found past conversations interesting? Look no further. At www.iMeetzu.com, people can meet a stranger, have their 1-on-1 conversations published and rated, and see their rank among all the other conversationalists that use the website. The site builds off basic random 1-on-1 chatting aspects to create a conversationalist social network. Users have profiles, the ability to save their favorite conversational friends, and the ability to have anonymous chats as they please (users can choose whether or not to reveal their usernames to other chatters).

) September 4, 2009 -- People looking for a faster and more efficient online search experience can now turn to Searchwiki, a new social search engine bridging the gap between searchers and relevant results. Unlike other search engines, in addition to spidering major search engines like Google and MSN, Searchwiki spiders social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to generate additional search results. Searchwiki is also the only search engine that offers redemption points, giving users the opportunity to receive gifts just for searching, commenting and posting reviews.

) September 23, 2009 -- Viximo, the only complete provider of virtual goods solutions for social networking, dating, and casual gaming sites, today announced a partnership with Fotolog, the world's leading photo-blogging site. Fotolog will leverage Viximo's solutions to offer virtual goods to Fotolog's 27 million members.

Viximo's virtual gift solution will provide an optimized virtual gifting experience for Fotolog's users. Combined with Viximo's Content Marketplace, Fotolog's storefront will have a robust, fresh inventory of premium content including licensed content from brands, celebrities, and musicians.

JamzOTA is an online social platform engaged in the development of digital communities. Allowing users to create content & share social activities. Providing internet based portals.

) September 25, 2009 -- Social media can play a vital part in keeping a website fresh and appealing to its users according to Reality Digital, the leading provider of online community software for brands and businesses.

With a vast amount of business and other activities now being conducted over the internet, it has become increasingly important for brands and businesses to maintain a thoroughly engaging and up to date website. Brands should be looking to make the most of social media by incorporating it into their website according to Reality Digital.

) July 13, 2009 - WennSoft, a provider of business software solutions, announced today that it has created a partnership with Axonom to expand functionality, visibility and the customer's ability to tailor the experience with CRM and the WennSoft Solutions. The new product, called WennSoft CRM Extensions built on Powertrak™, will be available in the fall of 2009.

) March 31, 2009 -- Family network, www.Genoom.com, is experiencing continued and significant growth as a family and genealogy-based social network, doubling its number of profiles in the last six months from 3 million to over 6 million. Those profiles, submitted by the network's users, are connecting family members from over 200 countries across the globe, in 17 languages.

) 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.

) July 22, 2009 -- Bloggled.com, a blog backup & service company that is quickly becoming one of the most recognizable names in in blog backup security, has launched a new tool that expands its services to Twitter accounts.

Backup your tweets at Bloggled.com

) April 14, 2009 -- Recently launched GayPetClub.com is currently using a top social networking software making it free and easy for pet owners to sign up. Within minutes, a new member can start communicating, share information, make friends, start a blog, post comments and add links to promote businesses. The linking feature can also be used to cross connect with member's profile from all other social sites like Facebook, Myspace, Gay.com and other top social websites. They even have featured job listings for members to search through.

) May 21, 2009 -- PeoplePond, a unique Internet service providing search engine optimized (SEO) profiles and online identity verification for individuals, announced today that the PeoplePond Blogger plugin, PeoplePond MovableType plugin, and PeoplePond TypePad plugin are now available.