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MASHABLE -- May 30 -- Twitter,
apparently, has closed it's much rumored $15 million funding round.
Spark
Capital with Union Square are the two investors PaidContent is confirming through
their unnamed sources. FULL ARTICLE @ MASHABLE
PRESS RELEASE -- May 30 -- SeeMeNow is a new personal Live Video
broadcasting
network on Facebook developed by Comet Technologies. Using SeeMeNow
application, users can stream Live Video from their computers directly
into the Facebook profile.
NEWS TIP -- May 30 --
The We Campaign, a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection which aims to halt global warming, launched a new application on Facebook, called Climate
Champions. Users can earn points to help stop
global warming by taking actions (everything from signing a
petition, to writing a letter to the editor, to inviting friends...). For
every 10 points they accumulate, $1 will be donated to help stop
climate change.
PRESS RELEASE -- May 19 -- ASmallWorld, a premier
private by-invitation online community partners with Mercedes-Benz. ASmallWorld
will provide a platform to help Mercedes-Benz drive interactive
marketing and provide branded entertainment for its 260,000 plus users. FULL ARTICLE @ A SMALL WORLD
Mark Brooks: ASmallWorld has tried to grow slowly, and exclusively. This is in stark contrast to most SNS which are open to everyone.
EMAIL INSIDER -- May 29 -- The
email marketing industry's love-hate relationship with social networks
continues. Social networks were talked
about it during the Email Insider Summit last week. According to ExactTarget's stats 72% of
respondents prefer to receive opt-in promotional messages
via email, while 0% prefer them via SNS. As more people replace their cellphones with smartphones,
more will make the transition from SMS to email on their mobiles. It's also no secret that
Yahoo and Gmail are both working on adding more SN
functions to their email platforms. Meanwhile, email clients are already starting to do double-duty as
RSS readers. But while promotional messages are welcome in the email
inbox, 0% welcomed promotions in their RSS inbox. FULL ARTICLE @ MEDIA POST
KNOWLEDGE -- May 28 -- Nearly
everyone told Matt and Jessica Flannery that their idea -- a website
where people could make micro loans to individual borrowers in the
developing world -- wouldn't work. Today, Kiva.org is one of the hottest and hippest on
the web. Kiva's 270,000
lenders have assisted about 40,000
borrowers in 40 countries and provided a total of about $27m in
funding. Kiva, founded in 2005, has been so successful that it has already
spawned imitators: eBay last year launched a lending site called
MicroPlace. FULL ARTICLE @ KNOWLEDGE
MASHABLE -- May 28 -- So far, more than 65,000 rooms have been created since Piczo implemented the
feature to allow their users to create rooms. The Meebo Rooms feature
went live on May 8th, with approximately 3,000 new ones being added
every day. Chat rooms can be embedded directly into user profiles, and
copied into other pages on Piczo from there. FULL ARTICLE @ MASHABLE
TECH CRUNCH -- May 28 -- AOL is officially joining the initiative to standardize
social-networking apps. AOL's first steps
will be to implement Gadgets on myAOL.com. The Gadgets
should help developers create widgets that can be used on myAOL, as
well as the web at large. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
MASHABLE -- May 28 -- Following
its name change and $6.8m financing round last April, the European
social network Netlog is taking a closer look at OpenSocial. Netlog
is scheduled to announce at Google I/O in San Francisco that it is
party to the initiative, making available the option for applications
developed using OpenSocial standards to be used by the network's own
35m users, joining other social networks including MySpace, hi5,
and Orkut in the initiative. Netlog also says it will play its role as
a European evangelist for OpenSocial throughout the continent this
summer. FULL ARTICLE @ MASHABLE
NEWSWIRE -- May 28 -- Launched in mid 2007, Singapore based Quaffs is
the new online community portal for like-minded individuals
who wants to share and discover new objects with people from all over
the world. Quaffs
has come up an unique platform called Objects of Desire (or
known as OoDs) that allows users to interact with people of similar
interests in various objects, ranging from a
fiction book to even a Mini Cooper. FULL ARTICLE @ NEWSWIRE
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