) October 14, 2009 -- Authors and aspiring author likely already know the fate of their book lies in their hands. Gone are the days of landing a book deal, writing a killer manuscript and handing it over to a hotshot publisher who will take care of the rest.

The good news is that the massive change in book marketing today can actually work in the author's favor.

Silicon Valley based MyPlick this week announced the implementation of a new music application for their online presentation sharing service. It’s the result of a partnership with Tribe of Noise.

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.

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.

) January 11, 2009 -- Launched in late November 2008, TBD-Associates-Electronic-Stores.com is an online business specializing in the sale of various electronic products from mp3 players to GPS systems. The site's latest update came in December 2008 with the newly launched company blog, www.TBD-Associates-Electronic-Stores-Info.com.

Site founder and operator Terry Davis elaborated on the diversity of inventory found throughout the site as well as some additional services offered to the customers.

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.

) November 19, 2008 -- www.Chapeau BlogAwards.com (Chapeau Blog Awards), dedicated to awarding brilliant bloggers, launches BlogOh!Pedia™.

BlogOh!Pedia is an online encyclopedia where bloggers can lay claim to blog phrases they invent. Upon acceptance of each word or phrase that is added to BlogOh!Pedia, bloggers will be cited for their contribution and provided with a link to their blog.

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

Social Bookmarking:Social Bookmarking is one of the best Process for getting Quick Traffic (Visitors) from Social Networking sites and online community sites.

Bionima.com is a new revolutionary site that allows people to tell their own life story that will live on forever. At present, the Bionima site is awaiting its launch and is strengthening its efforts to promote the website worldwide. Because Bionima is a social networking site, it was deemed fit to launch it in countries that are heavy users of social networking sites.

) 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

) 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 15, 2008 -- MySpaceMonk.com has opened its doors to the latest exhibition in the social networking content community. Over 25 million MySpace Layouts are on display from the world's top social networking artists. This company has been directing the social networking community since the precursor communication evolution resulting from MySpace and Facebook, the leaders of the world wide web.

MySpace Layout Exhibition Goes on Display

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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) January 13, 2009 -- Clipper Windpower, Inc. ("Clipper") today announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation ( "Colville") to pursue joint wind energy development activities within the Colville Reservation in Washington State.

) 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.

) 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."

) 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."

Annams Systems Corporation, dba Sunflower Systems, and Ascot Associates LLC announced today a strategic alliance.

From the annual Enterprise 2.0 Conference (#e2conf) in Boston, Tomoye today previewed the newest version of its community and social networking application, Tomoye Community Software version 3.0.

) September 16, 2008 -- As the economy slows, more and more businesses, small and large, are looking for new ways to offset the revenue slump through creative online marketing. Many have been tapping into social network marketing as a cost-effective and targeted alternative to traditional marketing. While creating a commercial presence on networks such as MySpace and Facebook has been the new web 2.0 trend for the past few years, others are taking social network marketing to a new level by creating their own unique, customized social networking websites.

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.

) May 7, 2009 -- Dresser is constantly seeking ways to better inform and communicate with their Abra customers. In the past Dresser has provided information for their customers to maximize the utilization of their Abra system. Now they are expanding efforts in helping customers not only maximize utilization of their Abra system but to better utilize the flow of information for all systems to operate more effectively and efficiently during these difficult times. Dresser & Associates has recently launched several initiatives in this effort.

) October 31, 2008 -- Ann Michaels & Associates announces the launch of the new company website. Undergoing a significant renovation, the new website offers companies additional information on core services, including mystery shopping, customer feedback, and social media monitoring, as well as useful information with regard to customer service, employee performance, and brand reputation.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

New York, Ambatchmasterpublisher is growing beyond the Videos wildest imagination of its videos originators. What started out as a videos simple tool to show off ones little videos and make community friends, is now one of the famous and top videos based networking sites in the video world.
"Teens today are always look for a new way to express themselves and explore their talents to the world, and these videos blogs and videos social networking sites like Youtube and Google video offer teens to use the video broadcasting their talents to express themselves," said T.J, creator of the site.
Teens are no more hassle with manually changing Video bakgrounds
ambatchmasterpublisheryoutubevideo.blogspot.com claims to have the perfect 1-click- for -all- -solution.

) 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.

) May 17, 2009 -- Reality Digital, the leading provider of brand focused social media solutions, offers advertisers the tools, techniques and expertise to build, manage and monetise a moderated brand-safe environment for user generated content. With the demand still increasing for social media sites, so does the necessity to offer advertisers the protection of a moderated, brand-safe environment.

) 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.

) August 13, 2009 -- QuestionFish.com has just launched nationwide the first truly localized social networking web site.

QuestionFIsh.com

QuestionFish.com delivers over 80% of the total Social Networking market in one unique comprehensive site; focused on getting answers, finding whatever it is you are looking for, and meeting people of similar interests locally and/or across the country.

) 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.

) 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 30, 2009 -- Leading genealogy site Geni.com announced today the availability of Pro accounts with additional features and tools for power users. Pro Account benefits include:

Average Life Expectancy

• Tree Statistics: Comprehensive statistics for insight into your family history
• Advanced Search: Search over 50 million profiles by immediate family, location, date and more
• Enhanced Relationship Paths: Discover your exact relationship to any blood relative on Geni
• Forest GEDCOM Exports, Pro Badge, Priority Support and more!

) 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.

) September 18, 2008 -- Yammer (www.yammer.com), a micro-blogging tool for enterprises, today announced the release of their API to outside developers.

Yammer Logo

The API enables developers to build applications on top of Yammer and integrate Yammer into users' existing tools and workflows.

) September 10, 2008 -- Webjam today announces the launch of its Branded Services which enable businesses and organizations to create custom online communities, under the motto "Your social networks made easy". Webjam's Branded Services are the only platform that allows companies to give their audience, members or clients the ability to create their own social networks to spread awareness and bring a sense of purpose and community within a branded environment.

) July 14, 2009 -- A recent Borrell Associates assessment of more than 100 social networking sites reveals that almost 20 percent of their advertising comes from local businesses and marketers. The amount projected to be spent in 2009 comes to $641 million out of $3.26 billion across 118 social networking sites surveyed.

2009 Social Networking Ad Spend Share, Local vs. National

) 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.