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iMac and iPhone Now Compatible with So Act Network

So Act Network, Inc. a company providing "a global social network where its members are free to accomplish and promote all of their important goals without being subjected to spam or ads," has announced that its network is now compatible with Apple’s iMac and iPhone. The company aims to provide Mac and iPhone ...

14 October 2009
10:43 GMT

The Big PlayStation Home 1.3 Patch Is Out

A new update became available today for the PlayStation Home and it brings enough modifications to please the members of this online community. The 1.3 update was announced back in August, when most of its features had been revealed. To add to those, some additional content was added to the change log and the Home ex...

1 October 2009
03:48 GMT

Google Reader Gets Another Social Update

What's the latest up-and-coming social network? Give it six months and the answer might surprise you. Google is on a roll launching one social feature after another, having recently extended some of the functionality in Google Reader with “likes” and the possibility to find and follow other users. An...

13 August 2009
03:47 GMT

iGoogle Gets Social in the US Too

Google has been actively promoting its customized homepage iGoogle since it was launched in 2005 and, while it’s actually pretty popular in terms of traffic, it isn't exactly the search giant's best-known product. Still, the company is hammering on and now it has introduced a set of new social gadgets...

13 August 2009
03:06 GMT

APB Could Be the Base for a Bigger MMO Experience

Realtime Worlds is said to be, at last, pretty much ready to release All Points Bulletin, its gang-oriented action MMO. But the vision on which the development team is working is bigger than that with a full city simulated and the conflict between law and criminals being just a facet of the game world. The developers...

30 June 2009
02:48 GMT

New Shazam App Lets You Share a Music Moment

Shazam, a popular music discovery application for iPhone and iPod touch, has received an important update, adding abilities like Tweet your Tag, Share a music moment and Track your music journey. With Shazam, users can identify music tracks, buy them, and share the tags with friends, as well as learn about their favo...

25 June 2009
05:46 GMT

Music App That Focuses on Your Favorite Content – imeem Mobile

Social music service provider imeem Inc. has announced a free, social music app for iPhone and iPod touch. Immediately available in the App Store, imeem Mobile provides a quick and easy way to find and get music on your device by creating custom stations based on your favorite artists, through personalized, Genius-li...

14 May 2009
15:11 GMT

Ziibii – Flickr, Twitter, YouTube RSS for iPhone (Free)

You wouldn't expect such a great app to be free to download and use, but it is. Ziibii  brings together all your favorite social services (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube), and puts your friends' updates on a flowing river on your iPhone / iPod touch. “Enjoy a fresh, new way of staying in-...

25 November 2008
04:32 GMT

iTunes 9 Ideas – 'Social' Features

iTunes 8 “fire-starter” and digg founder Kevin Rose is at it again, this time on Seesmic, with a couple of new ideas on how Apple could shape up iTunes into an even better media playing app. Rose suggests Apple could add several features to iTunes 9 to make the experience more fun for users and their frie...

22 September 2008
04:32 GMT

Analyze That: All Teens Play Videogames

There are still people out there who imagine gamers to be sad and lonely people who only look at the monitor, have no real friends and will never get a girlfriend. This stereotype is so persistent that I still occasionally get weird looks from people who find out that I play games and make a living out of it.Now...

17 September 2008
16:41 GMT

Google Blogging Platform Gets More Social Friendly

Google has announced that all the users of the Blogger platform will soon have greater opportunities to tighten the bonds with the other users of Google's blogging system. “Following,” a new feature that will be implemented in the next couple of weeks in all blogs, allows bloggers to interact more wi...

29 August 2008
12:00 GMT

Football Superstars Brings World's First Soccer Virtual World

Online MMO games tend to bring as many social-features as possible, no matter the genre of the game released. If we're talking about a first person shooter, there has to be a social aspect, somewhere in a peaceful area! If we're talking about a hack and slash game, there will definitely be a social aspect h...

26 May 2008
12:06 GMT

Sims Online Shuts Down

The Sims is one of those games that redefined the industry and the expectations of the players. The "people simulator", as it was often dubbed, and its plethora of expansions have brought casual and people oriented gaming to millions of players. Anyone can take a character, mold it to suit their view of a perfect hum...

27 February 2008
04:27 GMT

New Unreal Powered Game Announced

The Unreal engine has been licensed for a variety of games. Most of them are games that focus on blood, weapons, destruction and death, much like the Unreal series itself does. But now, the engine technology has been licensed by a Korean developer named Nurien. And they want to develop "next generation social network...

22 February 2008
15:06 GMT

Social Network Asks Whether You Are a Mentor or a Mentee

With Social Networks popping out like mushrooms after a mild May rain, this is the one that is the most business oriented that I've seen coming out in the past two months, except for Yahoo!'s Kickstart. The iMantri comes to embrace the National Mentoring Month in the United States, something I myself have n...

10 January 2008
08:06 GMT

Yahoo! Feeds Bebo with Social Applications as Bebo Grabs Facebook's Platform

Apart from the question in the subtitle, I have no further inquiries, your honor! It's good to see where the big rivals meet and exchange impressions, and even services. Earlier today, I read about Bebo's grabbing the Facebook platform for its own use, which gave rise to some very interesting questions lik...

13 December 2007
06:08 GMT

Buy and Shutdown Tactics Used by Yahoo with Social Network

What better way to close the week than with the destruction of a rival's business? Yahoo seems to think this is the way to go about things, as it bought BlueLithium, an ad network and forced it to pull the plug on its social network, MingleNow. We know this because the blog that announced the closing down direct...

7 December 2007
04:16 GMT

The Effects of Drugs on Sex, Health and Social Life

1. Causes of drug consume. There are over 200 million drug consumers worldwide. From "natural" to synthetic ("designer") drugs, they are aimed to induce an excitation and euphoria state; when we talk about stars, actors, famous singers, they usually go on with their addiction being pressured by the entourage (many si...

15 November 2007
14:06 GMT

Yahoo! Inbox 2.0 - New Social Network - AGAIN!

Yahoo! 360, Yahoo! Mash, Yahoo! KickStart. All social networks, all from Yahoo! (though you might have gathered that by now), all new or closing. Nothing is really stable with the Sunnyvale, California based company. If you need another example, just check out the Yahoo Publishers Network, still in beta after many ye...

14 November 2007
06:21 GMT

Yahoo! Turning to Students

Announced a little over 2 months ago, on August the 30th, Yahoo Inc. is launching today the social networking service designed to help college students get the career help they so desperately need sometimes. It was developed by a young Yahoo unit charged with advancing product innovation, according to The Wall Street...

5 November 2007
10:34 GMT

Take That, Microsoft! Google Rolls Out OpenSocial!

The Mountain View company made what seems to be the smartest move to respond to its rivals' evolution into the social networking battle where the web firms are allying with top players to expand their technologies. Today, Google officially released OpenSocial, a set of APIs which can help the developers design s...

2 November 2007
04:28 GMT

Being Popular is on the Muscles

We may call ourselves Homo sapiens ("wise human"), but for a kid it is more important to be able to kick the ball or to be a good basketball partner. Athletic skills seem to be the key for social acceptance among school children: kids dislike Dexters, which are prone to sadness, isolation and social rejection in scho...

26 October 2007
04:52 GMT

Internet Addiction Means Less Sex

It is clear that everything in our life has something to do with the Internet, from news and information to shopping and entertainment. But for many of us this seems to have turned into a pathological obsession, affecting our social and even sex life. A survey aiming to assess the impact of technologies in people...

21 September 2007
14:06 GMT

Everybody Likes Social Websites. Hackers Are No Exception

When I said hackers like social websites, I didn't mean that they surf MySpace all day long searching for bands or who knows what. These guys are interested in the potential of these sites, in the resources they have and that the hackers could use in their criminal activity. In case you have not figured this out...

20 September 2007
09:59 GMT

Chinese Study Says Online Gaming is Bad. Doh!

We thought that only Americans and some lonely Europeans are worried about the online gaming influence on the general public, but now it seems that professor Tao Hongkai, from the Huazhong Normal University is joining forces with a study that clearly shows how bad games are for kids. I have witnessed these reports ov...

16 August 2007
03:36 GMT

Innovative Mobile Social Networking Platform from Intercasting and Sprint

Intercasting Corporation, a top US mobile media company, announced that its innovative mobile social networking platform called ANTHEM will become available in the near future on select Sprint phones. This new networking platform was developed to allow wireless carriers to bring web content and social networking to t...

18 July 2007
08:56 GMT

Sexual Selection Shaped Our Brains

Women are deceiving, men first hit and after that ask. This characterized us ever since we were just some "monkeys" in the forest, also shaping our brains differently. A new study published in the online journal BMC Biology shows that brain structures have developed differently in primate males and females due to div...

11 May 2007
05:08 GMT


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