IMDb Launching a Database and Social Network for Music?
Saturday, December 1st, 2007eCirkit Sneak Peek: A New Take on Social Browsing
Friday, November 30th, 2007eCirkit is the latest to introduce a webtop “personal desktop” experience to users for an integrated social networking experience. Unlike most basic offerings towards this end, eCirkit acts very much like a Windows desktop in most respects. Still conducting private testing, the company hasn’t launched a beta ...
Xing’s Business Social Network Gets a News Feed
Friday, November 30th, 2007Xing, often referred to as “The European LinkedIn,” will be launching its own version of the Facebook News Feed on Monday. Called “What’s New in My Network,” Xing’s new feature will keep you posted on profile updates your connections make, as well as new additions to their networks. ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks
Friday, November 30th, 2007Last but not least, a category for niche and miscellaneous social networks – companies that don’t fit neatly into the 12 categories for which we’ve already opened up nominations. Ironically, there are probably more web sites in this category than all of the others combined. This year, we’ve ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social Shopping
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Social shopping is a niche that many companies are targeting for an obvious reason: there is lots of money to be made. Nonetheless, there is no clear #1 in the space, with the most notable deal this year being Heart’s $40 million acquisition of Kaboodle. Meanwhile, we reviewed ...
Pluck It Open. Social Nets on Facebook and OpenSocial.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Pluck is planning on offering its SiteLife social networking platform to be used with Facebook applications and Google’s OpenSocial next year. The company behind Blogburst, Pluck’s got a few months before developers and web publishers can expect to see the availability of SiteLife for integration with popular social networking ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social News and Social Bookmarking
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007We see a lot of startups enter the social bookmarking scene on a regular basis, many of which are never to be heard from again. But a few new interesting entrants have emerged this year in the battle to take on the likes of Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit. ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social Search
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Despite the never-ending barrage of Google news and the dominant market share of the top four search engines, dozens of startups think they can do a better job at helping you query the Web. In fact, we rounded up a list of more than 40 of them a few ...
Social Networking Conference Miami: Register Now and Save $220
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007We’re proud to announce that Mashable is a media sponsor for the upcoming Social Networking Conference in beautiful Miami, FL. The event takes place January 31-February 1, and if you register before November 30th, you can save $220. Topics covered include: global business strategies for social networking, mobile, ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Best Large Social Networks
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007The Open Web Awards are off and running, and over the next few days we will be opening up nominations in 13 categories. The first of those categories is “Mainstream and Large Social Networks” – the sites we’ve all heard of, frequent, and have multi-millions of users. In last year’s ...
Xbox 360: Social Networking Platform
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Fans of the Xbox 360 will notice their systems update on December 4th, and according to reports will now allow a social networking feature called “Friends of Friends.” There exists currently within the Xbox live framework the ability to maintain a list of friends, presumably regular gaming partners. The new ...
IM Meets Social Networking With Yahoo myM
Friday, November 23rd, 2007Yahoo’s got a new social network up, called myM. Yes, the last letter is capitalized. No, we don’t know why. myM is currently in invite-only beta stage, and it’s described as a social messaging service. Actually, let me quote the whole revelatory sentence from myM’s home page: “myM is changing the ...
23andMe: The Ultimate Social Network
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007The 23andMe poll has not yet closed, but it is getting late in the day, and I wanted to get my bit about 23andMe’s press conference up and online while it was still relevant. Earlier today, we asked Mashable readers their thoughts about the personal genetics, and whether they’d ...
Ecolect: More than a Catalog, a Social Network
Saturday, November 17th, 2007I know that now-a-days, one of the hottest trends is to be “green.” I’ll refrain from commenting at great length on the irony of a fellow like Al Gore making anything at all considered hip, much less environmentalism. But as it is, environmentalism is hip, and social networking is the ...
Social Design Patterns
Saturday, August 19th, 2006Tim O'Reilly has an interesting post about dial tone. Yeah, I know, it doesn't sound that interesting, but it is one of those things like Web 2.0 and Ajax - a new word that describes an old idea: Dial tone is a fabulous metaphor for one of the key pri...
