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Fuser lets you check your MySpace messages, comments and bulletins without leaving Facebook. You can even display your MySpace comments as a separate wall on your Facebook profile. Great success!

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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:24:17 GMT

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New Site that Tracks who views your MySpace profile

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:57:30 GMT

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ShowYourself Widget: Social Networks Aggregator

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:01:20 GMT

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ShowYourself is a widget for aggregating all your social networks - Digg, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, Virb, YouTube, Twitter, Last.fm, del.icio.us, PureVolume and more - in one place.

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Anheuser-Busch social-network

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:57:36 GMT

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Anheuser-Busch, to set itself apart from wine and hard liquor, which have been cutting into beer sales, has partnered with social network MingleNow in a photo-sharing push called "clink" as part of its 18-month-old "Here's to Beer" campaign, which aims to elevate the image of beer, writes AdWeek.

The promotion invites the site's 300,000 users to submit and share photos of themselves "clinking" beer when out and about. A-B snubbed MySpace, which has an enormous audience but a large under-21 segment, and opted for MingleNow, which aims to connect members based on the places they socialize.

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social networks for sports

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:29:06 GMT

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iSporty, a social network for sports, will launch tomorrow. If the site looks at all familiar, that’s because it’s really a relaunch of TiredandTested, which we wrote about at the end of last year. It’s pretty clear in this iteration that iSporty will cater mainly to the UK market, and global users might feel a little lost among the hordes of soccer fans.

You need to be logged in to see the full extent of the new features, which include the site’s TV web channel iSporty TV, regularly updated sporting news, blogging, fansites, scrapbooks and photo sharing. There’s also the ability to keep a calendar and post events. Groups, meanwhile, are populated with photos from Flickr and videos from YouTube and Google Video - there’s Google Maps integration, too. The interface is an acquired taste: the brown, red, gray and blue takes a little getting used to, and I think the old design was less stale.

I partially understand the benefits of narrowing your scope to one country (no competition), but I also think it’s less ambitious than taking on the world: wouldn’t you rather follow the MySpace and Netvibes strategy of launching a global/US site first before rolling out national versions?

Other sports social networks include Takkle, FanNation and Ultrafan.

Tags: socialnetworking

MySpace Blocked

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:23:39 GMT

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MySpace Blocked - We’ve heard a few pieces of legislation being proposed recently that would ban social sites in schools and libraries, but Wake County, North Carolina isn’t hanging around - the libraries there have blocked MySpace due to concerns about porn and the potential for “criminal activity”.

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Youtube Skins

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:48:44 GMT

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Slide.com, purveyor of MySpace slideshows and other widgety bling, has just launched an inspired new concept: YouTube skins. Announced to users today, “SkinFlix” lets you enter the URL of any YouTube video and add frames to make it look like a Plasma TV, a theater, a vanity mirror, an old-fashioned TV and more. You can also add animations like disco lights, falling snow and floating hearts. Slide maintains the link back to YouTube (although it’ll be disabled by MySpace if you embed it there) and also adds some Slide.com images at the bottom linking back to the SkinFlix page.

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Whateverlife: Helps you with MySpace code

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:36:37 GMT

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The sixth player is a 70s-styled directory and guide that seems to be built on a blogging platform. Instead of producing MySpace layouts and banners, WhateverLife provides advice and help on installing your layouts, producing overlapping text, creating tables and more. In many ways, it’s an html coding guide reinvented for the MySpace generation. This is a whole ‘nother market to tap: the huge number of MySpace users who are struggling with html coding.

Tags: myspace, myspace+ad-ons+whateverlife

Blogthings: Embed Quizes into MySpace profiles

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:32:54 GMT

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Blogthings

The fifth site in this category isn’t really about MySpace layouts at all - instead, Blogthings provides quizzes to embed in your MySpace page. These include “What’s Your Vampire Name?”, “What Superhero Are You?” and “Are You Bipolar?”. The page owner answers these questions then posts the results to his MySpace page - the idea is that this gives you some insight into the user’s personality.

Additionally, Blogthings generates custom html code for LiveJournal, Xanga, Facebook, MSN Spaces (aka Windows Live Spaces) and forums. Another important point is that Blogthings offers multiple ways for users to be notified of new stuff. Members can subscribe in MyYahoo, Xanga, MyAOL and LiveJournal. A basic RSS feed is also offered, but I doubt it sees much usage.

Tags: myspace, myspace+ad-ons+blogthings

Flikzor- Video Comments for MySpace

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:12:40 GMT

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Flikzor - Video Comments for MySpace

Now in private beta (and with early access passes available if you’re fast), comes Flikzor, a widget that allows you to accept video comments on MySpace, Friendster, Piczo, hi5, Xanga and your blog. Users create a video greeting for their friends, and visitors hit a button to record a response within the widget itself. All these responses are made public, meaning that you can browse through all the responses from that user’s friends and fans - my only wish here is that it would play all the responses in a row, rather than forcing you to click the “next” button (this isn’t intuitive).

Flikzor is neat, and so long as MySpace users aren’t too camera shy, we should see a good number of the widgets popping up. One of the most successful MySpace add-ons being tracked by Mashable Labs this year is Snapvine’s voice comments widget, which lets users accept audio comments on their MySpace profiles - Flikzor is essentially a video version, which could bode well. Services like Stickam, Flixn and Hellodeo’s MySpace video codes allow you to post webcam videos to your pages, but last time I checked, they didn’t allow conversations to occur on the widget itself (that may have changed by now). There’s also the potential, of course, for YouTube to add a “video response” button to their embedded players, but that’s not the case at the moment. All in all, Flikzor is likely to go down very well with MySpace users.

For more MySpace add-ons, see MySpace layouts and the MySpace codes category.

Tags: widgets, widgets+flikzor, widegts+myspace

Friendster partners with Google

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:05:16 GMT

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Friendster CEO Kent Lindstrom revealed today that the social network is going to partner with Google - the search giant will power Friendster’s search and text ads, just as it does on MySpace. The deal is to last two years and financials weren’t disclosed. But since Friendster reports less than 1 million monthly unique visitors, the agreement won’t be on the same scale as the $900 million Google-MySpace deal.

The hookup is another letdown for Yahoo, which currently powers Friendster search. It also seems to extend Google’s dominance of social networking ads: with Google powering the advertising and search on MySpace, Friendster and (eventually) YouTube, there can’t be many major networks left to hook up with. Facebook already struck a deal with Microsoft, so perhaps Google will set its sights on Bebo next?

Tags: social networks, socialnetworks, friendster, google, internet, search

You voted: Best Social Communities of 2006

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:40:13 GMT

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Our Choice: MySpace

People’s Choice: Multiply

Hot for 2007: Bebo, Vox, Facebook, Facebox

You can say what you like about MySpace - horrible code, ugly design, a failure to embrace outside developers - but the users don’t seem to care. With over 140 million accounts (not all active, admittedly), MySpace has become a cultural phenomenon. The site’s standout feature is the freedom it provides to users - you can add slideshows, pictures, custom designs and much more. MySpace is also the number one destination online for upcoming bands, and their plan to sell music from these bands next year is surely set to reshape the music industry. We see MySpace as the new MTV, with one crucial difference: the users are the stars. With a MySpace page, anyone can be a celebrity, creating an online image that’s sometimes an alter-ego to their true personality. In the coming year, MySpace plans to expand to the massive Chinese market (see MySpace China). We’re not convinced that they can stand up to local competition, but we’re keen to find out.

Meanwhile, we think Bebo is the most “exciting” social network right now. With a massive user base and a site that actually works, we think they’ll grow rapidly in 2007.

We like Multiply, and so do Multiply’s dedicated users. A small post about the Social Networking Awards on the Multiply blog resulted in a landslide win for the social network, which emphasizes networking with real friends. We’ve expressed concerns in the past that this “closed” model may slow their growth, but we also feel that it differentiates Multiply from the hordes of MySpace clones. That said, Multiply now has a major competitor. Vox, which came second in terms of votes despite the lack of coaxing by the Vox team, is an outstanding blog platform. We were bowled over by it when it launched in October, and if we had a “hosted blogs” category, we would have chosen Vox.

Tags: socialnetworks+best+2006 community

Instant Messanger Widgets

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:18:47 GMT

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The folks at Traineo just let us know that they’ve partnered with Meebo around the MeeboMe widget, which puts IM on social networking pages and blogs. Traineo, a fitness community we’ve covered in the past, now lets you post a MeeboMe widget on your profile page.

This is the second partnership between Meebo and a niche social network that we’ve covered here: they also partnered recently with ChickAdvisor, the review site targeting women, as well as a number of other services large and small. It’s part of an ongoing strategy from Meebo to get their MeeboMe widgets in as many places as possible, and it seems like it might work: in particular, we’re seeing a lot of the IM widgets popping up on MySpace.

Meebo’s strength is that it actually has mainstream appeal - IM is the favored communication method of most teens, who seem to be flocking to these services. We’re not really sure whether the appeal is having all your IM clients in one place, or having access to IM in places where it’s normally inaccessible (eg. schools and colleges) - perhaps a bit of both.

Tags: widgets, widget+im

VMIX: Better Video-Sharing Site!?

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:08:43 GMT

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YouTube may have won the video-sharing crown, but that hasn’t stopped the money from flowing into the video space. vMix, which launched way back in October 2005, has received a second round of funding, according to reports today. The undisclosed amount comes from Mission Ventures and Enterprise Partners Venture Capital. They get 1.3 million unique visitors per month, they say, and have partnerships with the likes of Fox Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros and Bravo TV.

It’s fairly standard attempt, with profile pages, messaging, networks of friends, a Flash player, commenting, tags, ratings and the ability to post videos to Facebook, del.icio.us and Digg. They do, however, have a few unique ideas: the Talking Heads feature lets you put your own mouth behind a celebrity image, while there’s also a slideshow tool called VMix Slide and a number of contests (for more video contests, see Bix.com, DareJunkies and Jumpcut). Another unique feature: a “guide” button that overlays related videos in the Flash window, along with descriptions.

Even so, the video sharing market just seems to be packed with undifferentiated sites, and both Revver and Guba have experienced executive shakeups over the past few weeks. Like MySpace, YouTube is experiencing network effects: it now has all the content and all the users, and there’s little reason to go elsewhere. Unless a new site can bring a unique angle, exclusive content or target a particular niche, they won;t be able to get traction.

Tags: youtube, video+sharing+vmix

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New Site that Tracks who views your MySpace profile

ShowYourself Widget: Social Networks Aggregator

Anheuser-Busch social-network

social networks for sports

MySpace Blocked

Youtube Skins

Whateverlife: Helps you with MySpace code

Blogthings: Embed Quizes into MySpace profiles

Flikzor- Video Comments for MySpace

Flikzor - Video Comments for MySpace

Friendster partners with Google

You voted: Best Social Communities of 2006

Instant Messanger Widgets

VMIX: Better Video-Sharing Site!?

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