It is very rare to see Google advertising any of their products on TV. However, they have decided that this is a necessary tool when trying to promote their Google+ social network.
For Google+ Google is trying to push the motto: “Sharing, but like real life. That’s a plus.”
We have just noticed that Larry Page (Google, CEO) hasnt even made an effort to post on his Google Plus profile for over a month. No wonder everyone else has left Google Plus!
Diglo is a new file sharing social network that is getting a huge amount of buzz at the moment. Diglo provides users with a place to share unlimited files, have unlimited storage and even keep anonymity. Diglo is your perfect match between a social network and a file hosting and media search engine.
It will be interesting to see if Diglo can become a strong service if they will just get taken down by Hollywood, Major record labels, etc.
Google has just launched their new social network project that is aiming to compete head on with Facebook. Google+ has all the features you expect from a social network, but with a few added features.
Tradeshift has managed to secure $7 million in funding for their social network for businesses. The funding round came from Notion Capital. Tradeshift have already had seed funding from Paypal who are their technology partner.
Tradeshift is a growing player in the business social network market with customers including the NHS, and the French and Irish governments.
Tradeshift was originally created in 2010 by pioneers in open e-business who created the e-invoicing system for the Danish government, it now covers over 180 countries with more than 50,000 registered businesses and is the world’s fastest growing business social network, with growth in 2011 of more than 60% per month.
“Tradeshift is undoubtedly one of the most exciting businesses we’ve come across since setting up Notion in 2009,” says Stephen Chandler, Managing Partner at Notion Capital. “Tradeshift is led by a team who are real subject matter experts in their field, extremely strong both technically and commercially and have a very clear vision of where they want to take the business – it has the potential to become the de facto business social network for B2B communications and processes. Tradeshift is the single most disruptive proposition to this market and is set to play a major part in its transformation.”
Here is an amazing tutorial that helps any users to quickly customize their Facebook Fan Box with ease. The tutorial goes through the exact code you need to change and it is so easy that pretty much anyone could do it. Once your done customizing the code it ready to be added to your site. Enjoy!
There was 2003, and a young fellow by the name of Mark Zuckerberg started with a draft idea for a social network; and the name he came up with was FaceMash.com. Now, more than 7 years later, the final social network name Facebook.com has over 500 million users and FaceMash.com is for sale.
This was Zuckerberg first domain for the Harvard social network, which apparently was a college version for “Hot or Not”. The idea of a social network started to grow, and the domain name selected end up with Facebook.com in 2004. By 2007, Mark Zuckerberg did not renew the first domain name and Rahul Jain took it.
FaceMash.com is now for sale in Flippa. The auction started at U$S8000, and the current bid is at U$S19000 with 15 days to go.
If you have an idea for a social network startup, then this is the domain name for you.
Yes, that’s right, you didn’t read “New”, it’s “Nude Social Network”. Skinbook uses the same basic stuff from other Social Networks, but the target is people who are nudist.
“The World’s No.1 Nudist Social Network (with over 8000 members)! Providing a safe, fun and friendly place for likeminded people to connect!” announces the web site.
Skinbook it’s a Britain social network site where people can load their favorite nudist pictures and share them with their friends. But wait; there are some ground rules which you cannot avoid:
Even though it sounds like a bizarre site, if the regulations are in place, people can share their unique way of life with other peers.
Pingdom is a great service and they have put together another great viral article.
Facebook has announced that it now has 400 million active users. Just one year ago Facebook had 150 million users, so 2009 was an incredible year for the social media giant.
There can be no doubt that Facebook is pretty much unstoppable at the moment, a real juggernaut.
More and more people around the world are signing up to Twitter. The service is constantly updating and releasing new features. ‘Lists’ which launched towards the end of 2009 hasn’t really taken off that much but I think Local Trends might just.
Basically, you have the option to take the current trending topics and make it more localised. So if there’s something happening in America which is of no relevance to your area, it won’t be displayed in your Trending Topics because people from your area won’t be tweeting about it. Obviously, big global events such as the Haiti disaster or G8 meetings will attract attention from all over the world, but localised Trending topics can get quite annoying. Twitter sums it up as follows:
“Twitter trends began as a way to shed light on popular conversations. It’s interesting to know that one topic can now spread across the world in real-time, and Trends help us discover which of those topics are paramount on a global scale.”
“The big events that come up around the world will always become a global conversation, but what about the big events that only happen in your world that only matter to those around you? Or the slight differences in the way Californians perceive an event, like Obama’s election victory, versus those São Paulo, Brazil?” said @jennadawn on the Twitter blog. today.
They also say that the new feature will be monitored and improved through their API and via feedback. Nice to know Twitter cares about small European and Asian countries, as well as the North American market. Also, if you happen to live in a big country such as the US or France, you can localise the feature further by selecting cities instead of countries!
