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Betting (Gambling) on the Weather $$

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:06:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wow, would be great for restaurants with big patios in the summer. They lose so much money when it rains or is crappy out.

Clip Source: venturebeat.com

WeatherBill, a company that lets you make money by betting on the weather, has raised $12.5 million.

The San Francisco-based company sells contracts that essentially let you put money down against bad weather hurting your business, so you can still get paid even if your business itself suffers.

You can choose your contract to be for hot, cold, rainy, snowy or dry days or seasons, and customize every specific aspect of your scenario, such as the temperature, precipitation or snow level. Choose a location with all of your weather specifications and how much you hope to earn from the contract, and the site will calculate its cost.

Tags: socialnetworks, gambling, weather

A Del.icio.us News Portal

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:24:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Everything on the web on Fuser.

Clip Source: del.icio.us

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Tags: del.icio.us, news, blogs, newsportal

Social Poster - Maximize Your Social Media Participation and Traffic

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:54:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting... Gonna have to try it out

Clip Source: www.pronetadvertising.com

Social Poster is a service that helps you quickly and easily submit content from a particular site to multiple socially driven sites without having to enter the title, body, and other information over and over again. You simply type in all the information once, choose all the sites that you want your content submitted to, and click the 'generate links for submit' button.

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Review social networks and communities with BuzzShout

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:22:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.buzzshout.com

BuzzShout tracks the hottest web technology companies through listings, social reviews, and editorials.

Each review on BuzzShout can be shouted for. If you find a review particularly useful, interesting, or just plain hilarious, Shout It! This way, it'll be easy to separate the good reviews from the chaff.

Try to keep reviews relevant to the company in question. Do not use reviews solely as a billboard for promoting a rival company.

Talk about its features: What do you like? What don't you like? Be specific.

If you hate the company and its services, don't just rant about it. Make a suggestion!

Tags: buzzshout socialnetworks socialnetworking reviews

Social Network for Baseball Fans

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:58:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: non-traditional baseball news... i love it!

Clip Source: www.baseballnooz.com

In the most dramatic way possible, Alex Rodriguez lifted his team to victory Saturday before cheering fans in Yankee Stadium. His two-out, walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the ninth gave New York a 10-7 win over Baltimore. A-Rod was down to his last strike before the heroics that saw fans going crazy in the Bronx. For once, the crowd was on his side, roaring their approval and demanding a curtain call.

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Cafe.com

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:26:32 GMT

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Clip Source: cafe.com

About Us

Cafe.com is the first free online service dedicated to casual gaming. Our mission is to provide dozens of exciting, fun, easy-to-play games for those of you who enjoy casual games but want more by adding a social element to their gaming habit.

Cafe.com brings together leading casual games with 3D avatars, social networking and an item-based economy to reshape the way community games are played. You can choose from a wide range of gorgeous content and persona options while keeping in touch with their friends and accumulating possessions, all within our safe, secure gaming environment. While other multiplayer game environments have chosen to focus on children or teenage boys, cafe.com brings a uniquely mainstream approach - suitable for teens, adults and boomers too!

Join cafe.com today! It only takes a few seconds and it's completely FREE!

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USA Today Social Network Website

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:47:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.micropersuasion.com

USA Today is unveiling a massive overhaul of their web site that adds a number of great features. The notable additions include: reader comments on every story, the ability to create a profile page that can be shared with others, citizen journalist photos, story tagging and digg-like recommendation buttons.

This is exactly the direction USA Today needs to follow. However, it doesn't go quite far enough. In addition to building these features, the media need to bridge their communities to the ones where we already spend our time. RSS, widgets and embedded content would help here. For example, USA Today should let us add our blog, Twitter or Facebook feeds or even embedded YouTube vids to our profile pages.

Connecting communities is so easy today with web services and it would go a long way toward making the their site - or any site for that matter - stronger. Hopefully we'll see this happen soon.

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A new social networking site for professionals

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:46:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: haven't checked it out yet but it looks like it could be a nice addition to LinkedIn as a professional networking service

Clip Source: www.ziggs.com

	I am a technology guy
	Habitat is my top charity
	Marathons are my hobby

"Ziggs lets me build my Internet world around me!"

Doug McCready
Global IT Services
Hexion Chemicals
Columbus, OH

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Social Network for Women #1

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:22:47 GMT

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Clip Source: venturebeat.com

We finally “get” Glam, the network of Web sites for women’s fashion and lifestyle.

Glam enters 2007 with impressive momentum: Hip social networking company, Facebook, was No. 1 fastest-growing site in 2006 — until December — when Glam doubled its uniques in a single month and blew past Facebook at the last minute. Glam now has more than 8 million U.S. unique visitors per month. Glam overtakes Disney’s women network and CondeNast’s network, jumping to second largest women’s web property, behind only iVillage. (See data below.) Glam has more than 16 million global visitors, Arora says.

Tags: socialnetworks, socialnetworks+glam

Friendster partners with Google

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:05:16 GMT

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Clip Source: mashable.com

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

Procter and Gamble using social networks

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:57:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting

Clip Source: mashable.com

Capessa - There was a story on Fool.com (and other sites) this week about how Procter and Gamble is using social networks as online focus groups. Among their efforts, Capessa, a women’s social network run by Yahoo.

Tags: socialnetworks+procter and gamble, socialnetworks

Niche Social Networks

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:52:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mashable is the best source for all things new in the realm of new social media tools

Clip Source: mashable.com

-Dogster/Catster
-Flixster
-LibraryThing
-SneakerPlay
-MothersClick
-Motortopia
-Minti
-NextCat
-ComicSpace
-Curbly
-MyChurch
-Ziki
-VeryLiberating
-ITtoolbox
-Fanpop
-Islandoo
-ShareYourLook
-FamilyThrive
-Wordie.org
-Blubrry
-innerTee
-Spreadshirt
-Listal
-ConnectingMoms
-FirstGiving
-RealityAllStarz
-CafeMom
-BeGreen
-AdFemme
-SwapThing
-Dianovo
-eLifeList
-CampusBug
-SnehaH
-HumanOpinion
-MerchantCircle
-Barrio305
-GenevaOnline
-MDJunction

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You voted: Best Social Communities of 2006

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:40:13 GMT

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Clip Source: mashable.com

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

Marketers on MySpace

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:00:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: $100,000 for a MySpace campaign. Curious to see what kind of results they get.

Clip Source: mashable.com

Brides.com Launches MySpace Countdowns, Leafletter Launches

Looks like marketers are starting to toy with the idea of MySpace codes: Condé Nast is now launching a two-month long promotional campaign for Brides.com based around a MySpace page and embeddable widgets. They’re offering two add-ons for your profile: a wedding countdown ticker and a bridal quiz to determine what type of bride you are - modern, classic or glamorous. They’ve bought banner ads on MySpace, too, which direct users to the profile page. What’s more, these are targeted to users based on the demographic data they enter on their profiles - Condé Nast say there are 9 million women aged 21-24 on the site (will all those kids entering the age “100″ see ads for cemeteries?). The campaign is costing $100,000.

In related news, the folks at Leafletter got in touch today to say they’ve launched a web app that lets you create miniature Flash websites called “leaflets” to place on MySpace, hi5, Piczo et al. These embeddable widgets consist of panes containing images and text, which can be clicked to view them close up. We think it’s mildly interesting, but lacks the mainstream appeal of a collage tool like Dundoo or the slideshows from RockYou and Slide.com.

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

Tags: socialnetworks+myspace

LinkedIn launches LinkedIn Answers

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:52:15 GMT

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Clip Source: mashable.com

An unexpected move from LinkedIn: they’ve launched LinkedIn Answers today, a service similar to Yahoo Answers that lets you ask questions to members of your network.

Tags: socialnetworks+linkedin

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Betting (Gambling) on the Weather $$

A Del.icio.us News Portal

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About

BlogReviews

JaredPolis

LocalMedia

ProductFeatures

Social Poster - Maximize Your Social Media Participation and Traffic

Review social networks and communities with BuzzShout

BuzzShout tracks the hottest web technology companies through listings, social reviews, and editorials.

Social Network for Baseball Fans

Cafe.com

About Us

USA Today Social Network Website

A new social networking site for professionals

Social Network for Women #1

Friendster partners with Google

Procter and Gamble using social networks

Niche Social Networks

You voted: Best Social Communities of 2006

Marketers on MySpace

Brides.com Launches MySpace Countdowns, Leafletter Launches

LinkedIn launches LinkedIn Answers

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