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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Ibibo, an Indian social network, along with fashion and entertainment channel FTV, has launched a contest targeted at fashion photographers in India. The contest named iFashion Photographer Hunt, is open to all fashion photography enthusiasts. Under the contest, photographers will upload their portfolio on ibibo website which will then be rated jointly by the registered [...]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Salsa Dynasty is a social network for all those who love dancing to the tune of Salsa music. Salsa is growing as a music and dance form across the world and Salsa Dynasty wants to tap into this market by making a place for people to talk, watch and share everything related to Salsa. On [...]
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
iGoogle, the Start Page service from Google, is slowly turning into a platform for building social and commercial applications. In March, Airtel had partnered with Google to launch Airtel Live, built on top of iGoogle. Further, Google added the facility to share and collaborate on Google Gadgets through iGoogle start page. Today, Google has announced [...]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
MySpace has announced the launch of the Community Builder advertising platform which will allow the advertisers to build and customize brand profiles on the social networking website. The Community Builder is currently in private beta and is being tested by Deep Focus, an online marketing company. The Community Builder platform will be available in both [...]
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
The Alliance of Virtual Assistants is virtual network for all those who work as virtual assistants for the purpose of connecting with each other and even with potential clients. It is mini-social network built and hosted on Ning and has been created by Darell Williams who himself works as a virtual assistant. As per them, [...]
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
More and more women are getting online and so are the sites to cater to the needs of women. Recently, Yahoo entered this space with the launch of Yahoo Shine, a complete social network for women. Now comes WowOWow, a newly launched site focused only on women. Although the site claims to be a new [...]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
hi5 has officially announced the launch of their Developer Platform which will allow developers to build and deploy their applications on hi5. Like most of other developer platforms, hi5′s developer platform provides a REST API along with the OpenSocial API (Application Programming Interface) which will facilitate rapid development and deployment of applications. With the API, [...]
