) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) October 9, 2009 -- Couto Solutions launches a completely new product and services lineup that is built around the brilliant Telligent Community Server Social Media Platform. Couto Solutions CEO, Justin Couto says, "About two and a half years ago we made a conscious decision to seek out and find a web publishing platform that would allow us to quickly build branded, scalable, modern web site applications that contain all of the features required by the Web 2.0 era of corporate collaborative web sites.

) October 29, 2009 -- Viewpoints Network, a social technology and media company, announced today that it has added a Social Loyalty Engine to the Viewpoints Technology Platform. The Social Loyalty Engine helps brands establish a reputation and rewards program that motivates their customers to contribute content and become leaders and brand advocates in the brand's online community and across the broader social web.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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

) April 7, 2009 -- Conenza, a leading provider of corporate social networking solutions for enterprise employee and alumni communities, today announced the launch of a Corporate Social Networking "Quick Start" Pilot Program.

) January 6, 2009 -- Conenza has launched the "Executive Playbook for Corporate Alumni Communities" as part of its ongoing Executive Event Series, an online series designed to help executives who are looking to get started with or increase the impact of a corporate social networking initiative for employees and corporate alumni.

) October 3, 2008 -- SubmitEdge, a well known SEO services company with a global market, will now be providing its services and support globally with the introduction of a brand new white labeled solution.

SEO is in huge demand for online marketing and website promotion. Affiliate websites and major companies around the world are in need of professional SEO services on a regular basis. There has long been an overwhelming market for a white labeled solution to meet this expanding need, and a company is finally stepping forward to fill the gap.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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?

) 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).

) 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.

) February 2, 2009 -- Fasthosts Internet Inc., (http://www.fasthosts.com), a leading reseller web hosting provider, announced they are offering a free reseller account for one year. The offer is available through the end of March; anyone can sign up via the Fasthosts.com website.

Fasthosts.com

) December 10, 2008 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading widget and personalized startpage platform, today announced that it has launched the Web's first flexible, magazine style startpages and multi-view widgets. Now widgets can be resized across different columns and display rich RSS feeds in a variety of exciting new layouts. Netvibes also introduced instant widget creation tools that make it easier than ever to rapidly design and deploy fully customized and branded widgets that are compatible across all major startpage and desktop platforms.

Netvibes offers industry's first magazine style layouts for widgets

) August 27, 2009 -- Forum One Networks, a division of Forum One Communications, specializing in strategy and research for online communities, and ReadWriteWeb, a top ranked blog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis, announced a partnership to provide research on best practices in online community and social media management.

) 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.

) October 27, 2009 -- Neighborhood America, an enterprise social media and mobile marketing solutions provider, now offers an improved online experience and easier way for consumers to join branded online communities with the newest feature: Open Authentication.

) July 9, 2009 -- Vesta Digital is proud to present IntelBuilder Social Media Platform, proprietary software developed to enhance advertising and marketing efforts, strengthen brand loyalty, and build better and stronger relationship with customers. The platform allows fans to post, share, vote on and aggregate content in a timely matter similar to what is done on Twitter or Facebook.

Intel Builder Social Media Platform

) July 9, 2009 -- Vesta Digital is proud to present IntelBuilder Social Media Platform, proprietary software developed to enhance advertising and marketing efforts, strengthen brand loyalty, and build better and stronger relationship with customers. The platform allows fans to post, share, vote on and aggregate content in a timely matter similar to what is done on Twitter or Facebook.

Intel Builder Social Media Platform

) 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.

) 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.

) April 14, 2009 -- Buddy Media, the leading media company for social media campaigns and branded app-vertisements, today launched Buddy Media's Builder. Built to respond to growing demand for app-vertisements, the Builder is a proprietary Social Media Development Platform -- the industry's only such platform to standardize and enable rapid deployment of branded social media applications across all social networks.

) 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.

) 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.

) March 12, 2009 -- Network Redux LLC, a hosting provider based in Portland, Oregon, has launched an optimized reseller platform, which offers complete server management within cPanel/WHM-based environments.

The new platform, RO+, uses virtualization to provide resellers with isolated and dedicated server resources in a managed environment. Network Redux believes it is the first hosting company to offer this service platform for web hosting resellers.

) December 19, 2008 -- In its continuing efforts to demystify online marketing, Overdrive Interactive has released its Social Media Map, available for free download on its Web site. The map is available at: www.OverdriveInteractive.com/social-media-map.

The online marketing agency is providing this interactive map to allow marketers to view the many components of the social media landscape and determine how they can best leverage it to complement their overall marketing plans.

) November 25, 2008 -- ClearSky Mobile Media, Inc., a leading provider of managed services and content to wireless carriers, and Cellufun, the community-driven mobile gaming portal and "the world's mobile playground," today announced the availability of Cellufun's games community to ClearSky's existing wireless carrier partners. This relationship marks the first time Cellufun has worked with a managed service provider to deliver its games to a large network of more than two million customers in North America.

) 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.

) October 8, 2008 -- Increasingly, Global 2000 enterprises are discovering the business value of connecting to, and staying connected with, their employees and alumni using corporate social networking technology. Conenza has launched an online event series to help executives who are looking to get started with a corporate community initiative or increase the impact of an existing program. The Conenza Executive Event Series is designed to provide executives with the information, tools and techniques they need to successfully move their corporate social networking initiatives forward.

) 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

) 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.

PopSoc Logo

) June 5, 2009 -- Reality Digital, the leading provider of brand focused social network software for businesses, has been awarded a place on the Red Herring North America 100 List as one of the companies that will lead the next wave of industry innovation.

Reality Digital delivers software products and a hosted service platform for storing, sharing, managing and monetising user generated content such as video, photos, games and text and the company's Harmony solution is an easy-to-use, self-serve social media solution for SMBs.

) 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.

tribe logo

) March 4, 2010 -- ShopIgniter, Inc., a multi-channel ecommerce software provider, today announced that it has secured $3M in venture capital funding. The Series A round was led by Madrona Venture Group.

The ShopIgniter platform tightly integrates social media into core ecommerce functionality to increase a seller’s online sales by as much as 30%. The platform enables retailers, wholesalers and product brands to merchandise products through FaceBook, find customers through Twitter, and manage all the functionality of their online store through an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.