) 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.

) November 8, 2008 -- Webjam, where social networks are made easy, announces the pricing and reseller scheme for Community Network Services, its pay-for Branded Services package available now to resellers like digital agencies, web designers, directories and online services providers.

) February 10, 2009 -- Venda for Small Business, part of Venda, the market leader for eCommerce solutions, has linked with Webjam, the UK's answer to branded and white-label social publishing and community networks, to offer a combined platform for e-commerce and website publishing tools for small business enterprises. Webjam & Venda will integrate their respective products to provide an even more compelling toolset for a small business to build their online presence. The cross-distribution of the respective services will launch by the end of Q1 2009.

) 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.

) 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.

) October 30, 2008 -- eWayDirect, Inc., with offices in Southport, CT, and Raleigh, NC, announced today that the latest release of its emarketing platform includes full integration of social communities to enhance its robust email and website reengagement functionality.

Companies using the eWayDirect platform now can enable their subscribers to create their own social networks and invite friends, family, and business associates to join. Within their personal networks, members can share content, photos, and files with one another -- all centered around the company's branded community center.

) June 14, 2009 -- The video social network has come a long way since its inception and it has become a phenomenon that brands are beginning to realise is valuable.

In the current economic downturn, it is becoming more and more important for brands to reach out to their customers in new, distinguished ways. With a whole new world of marketing and communication evolving in the digital era, brands continuously have to do more to remain relevant to their consumers and dominant in their markets.

) 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.

) 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.

) January 22, 2009 -- Bebo, the global social media network, and Motionbox, the leading personal video sharing service, today announced that Motionbox would provide video publishing tools to Bebo's audience of over 49 million members worldwide.

) December 16, 2008 - Conenza, a leading provider of corporate social networking solutions for corporate alumni and employee communities, today announced the release of the Conenza Community Core 3.0. The Conenza Community Core, the foundational building block of Conenza's enterprise social software solution, provides Global 2000 companies with an easy and cost-effective way to get started and quickly create value from a privately-branded online alumni and employee community.

) 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.

) October 2, 2009 -- Doodle (http://www.doodle.com) announced today that it has integrated a new feature from the collaboration service drop.io into its online scheduling tool. Now, more than three million Doodle users worldwide can effortlessly include attachments within their meeting requests and polls. Built upon a common philosophy of transparent collaboration and ease-of-use, the aligned services have further advanced online scheduling by delivering a capability for personal and business users that makes document sharing simple.

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.

) November 11, 2008 -- Utah Street Networks and New Systems Associates today entered into an operating agreement to manage Tribe.net, one of the first social networking sites, add competitive social networking features to the site, and revitalize the Tribe community.

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Sulekha.com, the most popular community for Indians worldwide today launched their Premium jobs section, for which they have partnered with leading jobs portal CareerBuilderIndia.com to power its content. Under this agreement, CareerBuilder-India will be recognized as an exclusive provider of online job posting, resume posting and job search services for all the premium job prospects on Sulekha.com.
The Premium Jobs section will be a co-branded section along with CareerBuilder-India wherein the users will have the opportunity of registering with CareerBuilder-India through the micro-site.

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)

) 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.

) December 1, 2008 -- UploadDaily.com is a project that was developed in the latter months of 2008, to provide the online community with an alternative one-click file hosting solution. Premium users can benefit from increased Download Volume, Storage Space, Max File Size and many more exciting features. Premium accounts are available for as little as $4.99, while Free users can upload large files at a time.

UploadDaily.com is extremely happy about the launch of the website, its an immense step forward to tell everyone that we can provide users with affordable, secure, fast, easy one-click file hosting. Our user base is growing with them agreeing, that we are providing a user friendly service which is easy on the pocket.

) October 23, 2009 -- After building several custom versions of a social networking platform for their clients, SocialABC now offers an open source version of their software. Organizations can build their own social networking web site to interact with their customers and fans online. The software is free to download.

Perhaps the greatest benefit of social media is its ability to facilitate conversations between brands and their audiences. Many customers and clients not only prefer but often expect to be able to interact with brands they like. They want to communicate with a company and share their feelings and thoughts about it and with others who share the same enthusiasm.

) October 14, 2009 -- Netvibes (business.netvibes.com) pioneered the first and only publishing platform to help brands and publishers rapidly create user personalizable microsites and dashboards that captivate audiences through the power of personalization. Now Netvibes Premium Dashboards are giving publishers a new way to further build ongoing user engagement with "push-and-pick" publishing tools. These tools enable publishers to push new updates, themes, widgets and media content directly to users' personalized environments, while empowering and encouraging users to pick and decide which new updates they like best.

) November 22, 2008 -- LegacySpaces.com, the leader in Personal Private Networks, is now providing an alternative to the traditional social networking model. This one-of-a-kind service offers the benefits of private, secure Personal Networks and Legacy Management Services. Individuals can now manage their own stand alone network avoiding the problems of shared online space.

) September 17, 2008 -- In this global economy where Information Is Knowledge and Communication Is Key, Connectivity is in Demand. The E.Factor knows this and aims to bridge the gap globally and locally between Entrepreneurs and Investors.

With 50,000 members from 72 countries in 75 different industries and over 100 investors connected, the E.Factor is a one-stop destination for all things Entrepreneurial.    The E.Factor makes it easy for the busy entrepreneur and business owner to leverage the necessary tools offered via social networking to ensure their relevance, and more importantly, their survival, in the 21st century and in this rough economy.

) September 17, 2008 -- Mydeo and Limelight Networks, Inc, (Nasdaq: LLNW) today announce that the companies will work together to provide European small business customers with a more flexible, low-cost way of delivering content via its global CDN.

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) December 10, 2008 -- LegacySpaces.com, the leader in Personal Private Networks, is now providing an alternative to the traditional social networking model. This one-of-a-kind service offers the benefits of private, secure Personal Networks and Legacy Management services. Individuals can now manage their own stand alone network avoiding the problems of shared online space.

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) July 1, 2009 - Viewpoints Network, a social technology and media company, announced today that it has integrated the JanRain RPX solution into its Viewpoints Technology Platform, enabling website visitors on Viewpoints or on one of their Viewpoints Technology Platform powered community sites to easily register and login with an existing account from AOL, Facebook, Google, MySpace, Twitter, Windows Live, or Yahoo! and instantly begin sharing their insights, experiences and product reviews.

New Membership Level Provides Most Loyal Members with Best Prices, Best Service and Premium Social Communications Features

) October 27, 2009 -- First time cruiser? Experienced cruiser? Looking to meet new friends who also love to cruise? Perhaps you're seeking a cruise roommate or that special someone? Whether you're looking to meet other cruisers or exchange information and tips, CruiseCrazies is a comprehensive resource for everything related to cruising.

Why the buzz?

) July 16, 2009 -- PopSoc is the creation of Alan Sherin, a digital marketer since 1995 who has witnessed the online explosion of social networks and realized there may be an audience out there who wants to take advantage of getting the exposure out in the social web, but either were leery, did not understand how to do it, or did not have the time to join and manage an online profile, yet still wanted to reach the millions of eyeballs participating in these networks daily.

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) September 26, 2008 -- Fotki Inc., the company behind the Fotki.com media social network where users share over a billion photos, videos, blogs and social links, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

) June 9, 2009 -- ThePort Network (www.theport.com) released today a case study outlining why the National Portable Storage Association (NPSA) (www.npsa.org) has launched a social networking community in its website using technology from social media solutions provider ThePort Network.

NPSA's fully integrated community supports member engagement and information sharing among association members.

) August 1, 2009 -- Epsilon Concepts, a Los Angeles web development company specializing in custom social networks, has unveiled the Los Angeles Digital Directory at http://www.ladigitaldirectory.com. The LA Digital Directory is a tech and entertainment oriented directory of jobs, job seekers, gigs, projects, vendors/agencies, freelancers/consultants, internships, recruiters/employment agencies, and events. For a limited time, The LA Digital Directory is also giving away one Kindle for every 500 premium listings and for every 1,000 free listings.

) September 10, 2009 -- Balaya, LLC (Balaya), delivering the power of social networking to business and people, today announced the Savannah Morning News will use Balaya's flagship product, Tick-it, as a social media platform for its website www.savannahnow.com. Tick-it enables the Savannah Morning News and savannahnow.com to offer up to the minute news dissemination directly to the desktop and mobile phones, and generate new subscribers and advertising revenue channels for their publications.

) October 21, 2008 -- Bloghology, created by IGM, is a 'one-stop' resource for new and established bloggers, and is excited to announce the launch of its unique Social Network Community, designed to support and connect Bloggers, Marketers and Advertisers alike.

) May 27, 2009 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading personalization platform for the Web, today launched new capabilities that enable users to quickly remix, remake and republish different types of personalized pages underneath one account--an industry first. Netvibes Multiple Personalized Pages give users the freedom to grow beyond the traditional single startpage by offering the flexibility to manage and organize different aspects of their daily digital lives across separate personalized pages.

) September 24, 2008 --
KickApps
(www.kickapps.com),
the industry’s leading on-demand social media,
video player and widget platform, today announced that web publishers
and brands can easily translate their KickApps powered websites into
French, Spanish, German, Italian or Brazilian Portuguese, with a single

) July 16, 2009 -- Reality Digital, the leading provider of web community software for enterprises, has predicted that social networks are set to become the primary hub of online activity, with other movement focused around it, as brands continue to push their marketing efforts into the digital world.

With social media having risen in popularity over the last few years, many brands are opting to utilise this for the purpose of marketing their products, using social networks as a great crowd sourcing mechanism. The internet population is a vast one, and it has become a vital factor in the marketing success of brands all over the world.

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) December 9, 2008 -- Wireclub Media Inc. has announced today that despite intense competition from giants such as MySpace and Bebo, over a million users have chosen Wireclub.com as their Chat and Social Network of choice.

Wireclub.com is an upcoming chat-centric social network for ages 18 and up. The company provides their users with an impressive selection of free services (chat rooms, profiles, friend networks, photo galleries, blogs, forums and instant messaging among others).

) September 16, 2008 -- Ad-funded social networks will provide the bulk of revenues in the mobile user-generated content (UGC) space by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research.