) November 14, 2008 - The Court of Appeals of Kentucky has granted a motion to stay a forfeiture hearing for 141 Internet domain names. Kentucky Gov. Stephen Beshear and Michael J. Brown, the state's Secretary of Justice and Public Safety, had sought the seizure of the domain names, most related to Internet gambling, in an effort to protect the state's own gambling industry from competition by online gambling sites.

) November 11, 2008 -- W-Global, announces the release of SMARTSPACE™.

W-Global's SmartSpace™ is a domain name combined with a suite of Web applications including email, photo management, Web site, chat, blog and SocialSpace whose setup and management takes place through a centralized interface. An optional common header provides a consistent look across applications, and navigation between applications is seamless.
SocialSpace is a SmartSpace™ application for collecting and displaying dynamic information from the Web including Flickr, YouTube, Google News, and your Facebook profile. You can populate your SocialSpace with content from any Web RSS feed.

) May 8, 2009 -- ChianMing.com announces the launch of its service allowing online petition submission of issues, concerns, suggestions, and personal wishes, to solicit supporting signatures. Unlike other existing petition websites, chianming.com allows the signers of a petition to actually use computer mice or other hand-held devices to literally sign the petition. The petition author can then download an electronic copy of all hand-written signatures, with accompanying names.

) July 21, 2009 -- Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services and registry for the .INFO domain, today announced that is has added a new service aggregating .INFO Authorized Registrar special offers and sales on .INFO domain names.

The new "Deals" page allows Internet users interested in purchasing .INFO domain names to keep track of the latest registrar deals, sorting special offers either by date or registrar name.

) October 13, 2008 -- The current Government plan to end the financial crisis is a sticking-plaster solution that has no staying power. Bailing out banks with part-nationalisation and special liquidity to allow them to lend is just postponing inevitable fallout from the personal debt crisis being faced by consumers in the UK. Consumer champion website Mortgages.co.uk is petitioning the Government to help home owners, not just banks.

) November 20, 2008 -- Overdrive Interactive has launched a state-of-the-art Facebook page to give its clients and prospective customers a place to explore its services and client work in the online environment where they already choose congregating, while showcasing a creatively developed example of a Facebook page.
Overdrive Interactive, the online marketing agency behind highly successful search and social media programs for a wide range of Fortune 500 clients, created its own platform as a communication, education and promotional tool.

) May 21, 2009 -- Small Business Trends LLC announced that it has acquired BizSugar.com (http://www.bizsugar.com), an online social media and content sharing website for small businesses and entrepreneurs. This acquisition is aligned with Small Business Trends' continued focus on serving small businesses and entrepreneurs, and the small business market as a whole.

) December 13, 2008 -- The Kentucky Court of Appeals listened to oral arguments in a suit (2008-CA-002000) brought by the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) to block the seizure of 141 Internet domain names by the Kentucky government.

Attorneys for iMEGA, an Internet trade association in Washington, DC, asked the appeals court to overturn a lower court ruling (Commonwealth of Kentucky, Franklin Circuit Court, Division II, 08-CI-1409) ordering the seizures, on the grounds that the commonwealth's attorneys improperly tried to create a hybrid of criminal and civil laws to justify seizing the domain names without any normal criminal or civil proceedings.

) July 7, 2009 -- Prominent former Attorney Richard I Fine, made a second 9-1-1 call from his cell in the Los Angeles County Central Men's Jail to the Full Disclosure Network®, raising alarming issues regarding the ethics and procedures of the U. S. Central District Court in California. Having spent the last four months in solitary confinement, Richard Fine describes in his court documents what appears to be the shocking tactics of an insular Judicial buddy system that could only be compared to the Code Of Silence deployed by street cops when one of their own is confronted with accusations of abuse.

Jailed Court Critic Fights For Freedom

Malmo, Sweden -- OS2 World Foundation are petitioning IBM to release the operating system's source code as open-source since the product still plays a vital role within many financial firms where the support and development needs still exists. Also, an earlier petition made by OS2 World Foundation during 2005 collected almost 12.000 signatures.

) 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.

) September 2, 2009 – Students, faculty and fans of University Canada West now have more options to interact with the online university, with the official launch of the school’s Twitter, YouTube and Facebook profiles. Each initiative will be used to promote UCAN news, special events and alumni updates. Visit http://ucan.ca/news for more information.

According to UCAN President and Vice-Chancellor, David Strong the networking sites are a “perfect fit” for the university, with its student body covering two campuses and the World Wide Web.

) November 17, 2008 -- NetBambino.com - We Know Domains, offers a new web solution called SmartSpace. SmartSpace is a domain name combined with a suite of Web applications including email, photo management, Web site, chat, blog and SocialSpace whose setup and management takes place through a centralized interface. SmartSpace allows anyone registering a domain to be live on the web immediately with an instantly connected domain. Simply register the name you want and SmartSpace builds your web site for you, instantly connecting your domain to a blog, photo site, social site and much more.

) December 3, 2008 -- Network Solutions® announces that the sunrise period for the new .tel top level domain extension begins at 10am Eastern Time on December 3, 2008. The new .tel domain names will be available for organizations and businesses holding Global and National trademarks for a price of $399 for a three year term.

) July 22, 2009 -- NeoSpire, Inc., a leading provider of managed web hosting, announced the recent launch of several new social media efforts to better facilitate the communication between the company, its customers, and the industry. This includes a corporate blog, Twitter account, YouTube Channel and a Facebook Fan Page.

) October 11, 2008 -- BrushVideo.com is a new website focusing on online video editing. This web application enables users to create their very own movies.

The service, geared towards teens and young adults, will allow users to upload a video and use an online video editor to cut movies, add music and mix webcam videos.

The website enables its visitors to add images, animations and drawings to uploaded videos. Watermarking of home videos or adding text and effects to personal videos just got a whole lot easier.

) December 3, 2008 -- Name, one of the fastest growing domain registrars is now accepting applications for the newest domain extension released .TEL.

Unlike many other domain extensions, the new extension works as an online calling card for individuals and business alike. The registration of a .TEL domain allows its owner to have an instant website dedicated to providing ways for visitors to contact them, both on and offline. The site generated for a .TEL domain uses the information the owner provides to create a web page dedicated solely to their contact information.

Web-enabled mobile devices like mobile phones or PDA's can also access a .TEL domain, making a businesses' contact information accessible while on the go.

) September 16, 2009 -- In celebration of the release of the Contest Burner viral marketing WordPress plugin a $10,000 online contest has been announced. Some of the prizes include a complete website creation, marketing and coaching package, an online marketing services package & cash prizes. The contest will also serve as a live case study showing the power of the ContestBurner online viral marketing tool.

ContestBurner Viral Marketing WordPress Plugin

) September 8, 2008 -- Establishing an online presence is essential for businesses looking for ways to reach a wide audience while promoting their products and services in a relevant manner. Helping small businesses and professionals establish and perpetuate online business success, Network Solutions announces the launch of .pro domain names for business professionals.

) September 23, 2009 -- Blacknight Solutions, Ireland's best rated and fastest growing registrar and hosting provider, has launched a worldwide sale on .mobi and .im domain names. With unprecedented low pricing - businesses and individuals can make their mark on the mobile web.

For a limited time, customers can register for a .mobi domain for only €6.75 - the lowest price on the web today. They can also register the redhot .im domain name for only €4.95 - a huge savings when compared to everyday prices approaching €45.

) December 3, 2008 -- According to WaterAid Australia, the United Nations progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals of Sanitation is one of the most off-track of all other development efforts. Lack of sanitation causing the deaths of millions of children each year, impeding progress in education and health, and preventing economic growth. There is a danger that in sub-Saharan Africa some goals are so far behind that they will not even be met this century.

) June 30, 2009 -- As President Obama prepared to host a cocktail reception at the White House for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) leaders on Monday, June 29, prominent activists and fundraisers returned to the Stonewall Inn on the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots to launch ThePowerOnline.org's nationwide petition drive and online campaign to expand the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include LGBT Americans.

Power Petition Supporters and Congressman Jerrold Nadler

) August 6, 2009 -- In January 1993, 24-year-old Vernon Kent Jones - a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina, known as Cameron to his friends - disappeared at approximately 6 p.m. after a day of New Year's Eve partying in an apartment in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Over the years, Vernon's heartbroken family has tried to conduct their own investigations (after the police were unable to make any headway) without success. In November of 2008, one of Vernon's younger brothers reached out to Robert Rahn, President and Director of Investigations with Management Resources Ltd. of New York, to see if he could make any progress using new investigative tools and technologies.

) November 19, 2008 -- Romanelli Communications announced today the launch of their new interactive website, romanelli.com. The updated site includes innovative features like visitor comments and feedback on every page, an email newsletter, and links to Romanelli's many online personalities on popular social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. The site also highlights Romanelli's branding and marketing capabilities, complete with online portfolio.

) November 12, 2008 -- The team behind SocialReader is happy to announce their Beta version is now operational at SocialReader.net. This useful new site filters through the content of Google Reader and YouTube to provide users only with the top news stories and videos.

) September 29, 2008 -- Involver, the video marketing platform, today announced that pilot customer Serena Software's "GO @#$% YOURSELF!" campaign, produced by Brief Attention Span, has won the prestigious OMMA Online Advertising Awards for "Best Integrated Online Campaign" in the Business to Business category.

Viral marketing firm Brief Attention Span Communications produced the video and viral strategy and partnered with Involver to extend Serena Software's "GO @#$% YOURSELF!" campaign to Facebook. By leveraging Involver's video marketing platform, Brief Attention Span was able to provide their client with a branded application and syndication in premium Facebook applications.

) January 7, 2009 -- DomainPeople, Inc., the eighth official domain name registrar accredited by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), urges people to preregister their first-choice .tel domain names as soon as possible.

"Once the landrush registration period opens, unregistered names will be available to anyone on a first-come, first served basis," said Chris Kruk, product manager at DomainPeople. "Given the high value of this new top-level domain for businesses and individuals, customers will want to get a jump on the competition for the best names."

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) September 16, 2008 -- Few companies know how to give their fans what they want like Harley-Davidson. The legendary motorcycle company has launched its official channel on YouTube and has done so in a big way with a collection of short films featuring footage of the 105th Anniversary Celebration, and the much anticipated 2009 model lineup.

) November 21, 2008 -- DomainPeople, Inc., the eighth official domain name registrar accredited by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), begins accepting sunrise registration for a new top level domain name (TLD) on December 3, 2008. .Tel allows people and businesses to offer a single point of contact and update their information in real-time.

) December 20, 2008 -- NameCheap, a leader in domain registration and web hosting services, is launching its presence on the micro-blogging service Twitter by giving away $17,000 worth of domain names in the "NameCheap Twitter Trivia Challenge". NameCheap currently has several representatives monitoring the service, and plan to add more should the need require arise.

) November 27, 2008 -- BlogCatalog.com, a fast growing social network for bloggers, is partnering with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy's AIDS.gov (AIDS.gov) for "Bloggers Unite for World AIDS Day 2008" on Dec. 1.
 
The campaign asks bloggers from all over the world to post about HIV and AIDS on Dec. 1. Bloggers Unite is led by more than 150,000 individually approved BlogCatalog bloggers.
 

) September 18, 2008 -- Amnesty International Australia provided a challenge to the group with a three-week campaign window prior to the launch of the Beijing Olympics. With clearly defined objectives, the social media campaign focused on three unique content pieces that were optimised for SEO and a blog engagement strategy.

The aim of the Social Media strategy was to drive people to the Amnesty campaign web site -- encouraging supporters to take action by downloading widgets, joining the pledge and attending a day of protest in Sydney.

) October 30, 2008 -- Millions have noticed this campaign season how Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama harnessed the power of the Internet to fund his campaign and woo voters at sites like Facebook and MySpace. Small and home-based business owners are also waking up to using social networking sites to connect and create cash flow.

Some entrepreneurs are cleaning up getting customers through social networking sites. However, others are left scratching their heads wondering if what seems like a colossal waste of time will ever pay off in these tumultuous times when low return business activities are unwise. An enterprising woman has created "The Social Networking Formula" to help business owners' speed up the process.

) December 2, 2008 -- John Motson's the www.domainingrevolution.com, committed to revolutionizing the domain name industry with a series of practical, constructive and creative initiatives that will bring mainstream exposure to an industry deserving of more attention in a time of global recession and financial instability, today announced the release of a free copy of an 86 page e-book titled "Domaining Manifesto - Guide to Domain Name Success".

With the dire state of today's global financial market, domain names are turning out to be a very steady and reliable investment alternative as domain names are not reliant on a singular institution, country or entity that can fail.

) 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.

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) September 17, 2009 -- MailChimp recently analyzed more than 1 billion emails sent since January 2009 to track the inclusion of links to Twitter and Facebook. The data shows an 84% increase in email campaigns that include links to Twitter compared to a 66% increase in campaigns that feature Facebook. In 2008, neither site was linked in many email marketing campaigns - a mere 0.49% of users included any social media links in their emails.

Percentage of MailChimp email campaigns including social links

) August 24, 2009 -- Social gaming has quickly become one of the most viral things on the web. Starting on Facebook and now spreading to Twitter, there seems to be a new social game popping up every day. This phenomenon has quickly become old news as most of these viral games offer little to nothing in the way of innovation compared to the dozens before them. Whether you're playing as a mob boss, a spy, or any number of other things, you still read what happens in your game off the screen. The immersive experience of actually watching the actions in a game unfold hasn't quite made it to the social graph, until now.

) October 20, 2008 -- According to a recent survey conducted by online payroll service SurePayroll, the majority of small business owners believe there is a clear business value in popular social networking Web sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

When SurePayroll asked small business owners if they believe online social networking has a place in the business world, 55% said yes. What's more, the survey indicates that one out of every five of the small business owners polled had actually obtained at least one new customer as a direct result of using social media.