) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

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.

) 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

) 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.

) October 27, 2009 -- Vesta Digital is proud to announce new release of IntelBuilder Social Media Platform 2.0, a viable web application framework offering both Content Management System and Social Media Marketing. IntelBuilder is proprietary Web 2.0 software application, W3C compliant and globally recognized and used by publicly traded companies such as Ruth Ruth's Hospitality Group, Inc (NASDAQ: RUTH), MagneGas Corporation (OTCBB:MNGA) and Bio-Clean International (PINKSHEETS:BCLE). IntelBuilder software is continuously upgraded to offer the most advanced technology tools being available on the web today.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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 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.

) October 30, 2008 -- The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, has hired Impact Interactions to provide guidance on the strategic development and execution of a comprehensive plan for engaging the global chemical community online. With over nine years experience in helping global organizations achieve measurable results using social media, Impact Interactions ensures that client communities are meeting the needs of the organization as well as their audiences. Using its best practices, creative web strategies, and analytical reporting techniques, Impact Interactions develops clear processes for its clients to succeed.

) 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

) November 24, 2008 -- Genia Stevens, editor of the lesbian and gay blog SistersTalk, announces the launch of GayWallet.com -- a social network designed to connect the LGBTQ community with companies and organizations that promote full equality for all Americans. The network is an alliance of gays and straights who are committed to supporting companies, organizations, and individuals who support the LGBTQ community. GayWallet.com allows users to create groups, upload videos, post pictures, write blog postings, participate in various forum discussions and network with like-minded individuals.

) 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

) August 18, 2009 -- Shoutlet and Higher Logic announced a strategic partnership today at the American Society of Association Executives' Annual Meeting held in Toronto, Canada. The partnership brings together Higher Logic, the developer of the private social networking platform called Connected Community, with Shoutlet, a social media communication platform.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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

) December 7, 2008 -- WorldTV (http://worldtv.com), a leading online video aggregation platform with 750,000 users in 190 countries today announces the launch of WorldTV Empower™ - an advertising platform for future media moguls.

WorldTV lets users create full-screen, TV-like channels online. The new system going live this weekend introduces advertisements alongside the channels and enables the channel owner to share in 50% of the advertising revenue the channel generates. The advertising system is the result of extensive research by WorldTV into effective ways to monetize User Generated Content video.

) 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

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) September 30, 2009 -- Sprout, the leading technology platform for creating rich, engaging ads and social media applications, today announced immediate availability of Sprout Publisher. Sprout Publisher allows Fan Page administrators to reach fans with highly interactive content and applications that display in the Fan Page feed and in the fans' personal activity streams, without the need for fans to add the application.

) 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 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.

) December 3, 2008 - ThePort Network, Inc. (www.theport.com), a leading social media solutions provider, announced today that it has raised $4.1 million in series B funding. The financing was led by American City Business Journals, the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers.

Other participating investors include Lee Enterprises, the country's fourth largest newspaper chain; Atlanta-based venture capital firm Imlay Investments; angel investor Robert Jetmundsen; and Bob Cramer, ThePort CEO and co-founder.

) 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.