Mashable writes about a social travel service on Facebook:
Trip Match is a new Facebook application for planning trips with your friends. It’s fairly comprehensive, offering features for sending invites, keeping track of who’s going, and options to add trip details like restaurants and places to go. The application was developed by TripWiser, who operates an independent web site for trip planning as well.
Tags: social travel, facebook, tripmatch
Mashable writes about a report saying that internet tv is growing:
Screen Digest has conducted a survey that indicates the UK market of online TV will grow considerably in the coming years, reaching $362 million by 2011. This is an important consideration, because online TV in the UK is still relatively new, but the forecast for the growth of this sector means a lot for Internet TV companies, studios, and marketers.
Tags: social tv, internet tv
Mashable writes about social music site Last.fm:
Last.fm is launching a new program designed to help independent musicians use the Internet to jump start their careers. The campaign will focus on teaching up-and-coming artists how to produce, promote, and distribute their music on the Web.
Tags: social music, last.fm
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Mashable writes about social music site Imeem:
Imeem, an online community that aims to connect artists and fans, has reached a deal with Sony BMG to legally offer their music to users. In exchange for allowing Imeem users to stream Sony BMG music on the site and in their widgets, the record label will get a cut of the advertising revenue.
Tags: social music, imeem
Mashable writes about a new social tv service from Microsoft:
Microsoft has announced that starting tomorrow users of Windows Vista will have access to a new feature called Internet TV within Media Center. The update will allow users to view streaming video such as episodes of Arrested Development, sports clips from FOX Sports, and news from MSNBC. Video will include advertising from YuMe, a video advertising network
Mashable writes about social travel site TripIt:
With the launch, TripIt has added a couple of improvements to the site. There’s a useful calendar integration for Google, Outlook and other iCal standards, which is a very useful automation tool that goes along with TripIt’s service. Sync your personal calendar with your TripIt plans, as well as the plans of your friends and coworkers, too.
Tags: social travel, tripit
Mashable writes about social tv site joost:
Joost has just released the latest beta, version 1.0 for Macs and Windows. A few changes include the new “spoon” UI, which looks cool enough, and sports a new transparent gray theme instead of the previous all black. There’s also a re-designed Channel Guide, which has been renamed Explore. This gives you an animated, interactive list of channels according to your category selection from your left hand menu bar.
Rev2 writes about mobile social network Zingku:
The rumors that Google have a mobile phone handset on the way have evolved into an inevitability as far as industry experts are concerned. However, in the meantime Google have decided to strengthen there mobile social networking presence by acquiring Zingku.
Tags: mobile social network, google, zingku
Go2Web2 writes about social music site meTracks:
meTracks is an innovative web based audio player, allowing you to listen to your music, when you want it, and from any computer. meTracks is designed to take away the headache of owning and transporting your audio everywhere by giving you an easy to use web based music player, on demand.
Tags: social music
Rev2 writes about social music site grüvr:
Are you one of those people who seems to always miss the show? I’m talking about those times when your friend asks you what you thought of that Pearl Jam concert and you are like ,”There was a Pearl Jam concert, when?”
Unfortunately I happen to be one of these people. The aforementioned Pearl Jam example actually happened to me back in 1994, man I was not happy. Living in New Zealand limits one’s opportunities to see big name bands locally. Those days are over for me now with the help of Gruvr.
Tags: social music
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Techcrunch writes about Social Music site FIQL:
FIQL
is a nice niche social network focused on music playlists. Users upload, categorize and share their playlists with others. People who view the playlists can buy songs through links to iTunes and other music services. But for the most part they can’t simply listen to the songs online, other than through somewhat cumbersome links to Napster and Rhapsody, which allow people to listen to songs for free with certain restrictions.
Tags: social music
Techcrunch writes about Social Mobile Network tool 3jam:
Multi-person SMS startup 3jam
The new service provides an improved level of text messaging by allowing friends and family to connect by multi-party text-message conversations. The 3jam application is free and requires no subscription, however standard text messaging rates apply.
Tags: social mobile network
Techcrunch writes about Social Tv company Sling:
EchoStar’s $380 million purchase
Tags: social tv
Techcrunch writes about Social Tv company Sling:
EchoStar’s $380 million purchase
Techcrunch writes about Mobile Social Network Blyk:
Blyk, the mobile virtual network operator offering free phone call minutes and messaging in return for sending customers advertising, launches in the UK today. Renting airtime from France Télécom’s Orange network and targeting only 16-to 24-year-olds, the network will target the ads based on a detailed profile customers will fill out on their website. It’s ironic timing. MySpace is today announcing an ad-supported mobile version of its site to get on the new mobile advertising bandwagon.
Tags: mobile social network
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Techcrunch wrote about Mobile Social Network Mig33:
We’ve been keeping an eye on the mobile social networking world covering companies such as Zyb, Mocospace, Aka-aki, imity, meetmoi, mobiluck. See our roundup post here. Most of the innovation is occurring outside of the U.S., particularly in Europe. That’s why it’s no surprise to see yet another success story, Mig33, originate outside of the U.S. (the company was founded in Australia). The company has over seven million registered users, nearly all outside of the U.S. Today, however, the company is launching their service in the U.S. They’ve also moved the company here - it’s now based in San Francisco.
