Posted on December 16th, 2007 by dhirender
After invitation only social networks, its the turn of invitation-only shopping communities, where an invite from a current member is needed to get access. As GigaOm notes, the team at Ideeli have already raised $3.8 million in funding.
Maintaining exclusivity in membership would attract designer labels which would not like to be seen in just any [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2007 by dhirender
Seems Google is creating its own version of online user-based knowledge sharing, which by all indications appears to be Wiki-based with better community features, and quite similar to Wikipedia and About. Here is an indicative sample of a page. As the Google Blog puts it:
Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people [...]
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Posted on December 14th, 2007 by dhirender
According to a recent survey by moneysupermarket.com, 15% of the 2,194 people questioned claimed to have been dumped by text or email, and about 1% would not mind using a social networking site to dump their partner.
Thankfully, a quarter of those in the most tech-savvy 18 to 24-year-old age group still prefer writing a letter, [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2007 by dhirender
With the launch of KylieKonnect.com, which incidentally coincided with the digital release of her single “2 Hearts,” Kylie probably became the first artist to launch an artist-based social networking platform, which combines mobile phone and web capabilities.
The site which at last count had drawn more than 10,000 users, allows members to create a profile, write [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2007 by dhirender
Horowitz Associates’ recently released report, Broadband Content and Services 2007, has some pretty interesting trends for online video. According to the report:
61% high speed Internet users watch/download online video content at least once a week and 86% do so on a monthly basis compared to 45% and 71%, respectively, in the 2006 study – nothing [...]
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Posted on November 15th, 2007 by dhirender
Leading European publishers are coming to terms with what teenage boys and men have known for years -the Web beats magazines in grabbing their eyeballs.
Magazine publishers such as London-based media group Emap, Germany’s Axel Springer and France’s Lagardere have seen a split growing in their magazine assets – those for women are surging while men’s [...]
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Posted on November 15th, 2007 by dhirender
Given that a study claims that there are about 1.2 billion email users and 1.8 billion active email accounts worldwide, this should not come as a surprise. Startups Xobni and Xoopit are already working on it, and as this article claims, Google and Yahoo! hope to turn their e-mail systems and personalized home page services [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2007 by dhirender
A survey by Burst Media found that Internet users usually combine surfing the Internet with other activities such as watching television, working, talking on the phone, playing games or listening to the radio.
Eighty-two percent of respondents merged another activity with their web browsing, and 23 percent managed to juggle four or more activites while online.
The [...]
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