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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Who can really understand teenagers, their whims, trends and choice of clothing? Certainly not Facebook, the place that was once a popular hangout for teens and college students. According to a recent article in Business Insider, Zuckerberg’s social network is losing some ground to other more mobile-friendly services like SnapChat and even their own Instagram.The trend is being acknowledged by Facebook, who have reported it in...
Social networking is exploding according to Media Life Magazine "Ad spending on social networks will grow 55 percent this year". The established players are dominating the internet and it seems that there is no stopping them. Now that Christians have a comparable social networking site, are they ready to dump Facebook? Atherton, CA (PRWEB) March 14, 2011 First there was Friendster then Xanga then MySpace now Facebook "“ this is an understandable progression of social...
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio State University study of 100 teen bloggers from around the United States found that the vast majority use blogs to nurture relationships with their peers and build a sense of community -- rather than to admit misbehavior.This preliminary study suggests that blogging could be used therapeutically to help troubled teens express themselves in positive ways, said Dawn Anderson-Butcher, associate professor of social work at Ohio State.She and her students examined blog...
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Skinit, Inc., the industry leader in on-demand personalization technology, and Photobucket have teamed up to make it even easier for consumers to customize electronic devices with personal photographs and images. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091124/DA16060) "With the explosion of digital cameras and online photo sites like Photobucket, designing, printing and sharing favorite photographic images has become an American pastime. Coupling...
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Moviegoers and voters were busy decorating their social networking profiles last month, according to SpaceGravy.com (http://www.SpaceGravy.com), a social networking design website. Today, the company released its most popularly downloaded designs for the month of November 2008, as well as its most popularly downloaded designs so far this year. Topping the November list are Twilight Layouts (http://tinyurl.com/59j8hd), featuring Edward Cullen...
ShareThis, the universal sharing platform that makes it simple and easy to share any online content (www.ShareThis.com), announced it has added more than 15,000 publishers in the 3rd quarter - bringing the total to over 60,000 active publishers that use the ShareThis platform to gain greater insight into what content is being shared, how it is being shared and where it is being shared to. New publishers include: AccessHollywood, Bengals, Boston.com, Buzzillions, Christian Science...
Scate Technologies, Inc. (Scate) has released Scate Ignite 4 Home, a personal version of its popular Scate Ignite 4 social media creation software with publishing options for dozens of social media sites and devices. Scate Ignite 4 Home users can now create HD web videos, HD web cam recordings, narrated photo albums and multi-media presentations for iPod, YouTube, podcasts, Facebook, MySpace, Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP), Blackberry, Treo, Windows Media Player, QuickTime and many more....
Wink Technologies, Inc., the world's largest people search engine, today announced that Wink People Search has doubled its number of searchable online profiles from this time last year, now reaching an unprecedented 500 million people worldwide. The company expects to exceed more than one billion profiles within the next 12 months. "The exponential rise in the number of personal profiles online is a testament to the rapid growth of the social Web - from the most populous cities to the remote...
AT&T has launched a new downloadable gateway, My Communities, which lets users create and manage multiple social networking accounts through a single dashboard view on their mobile phone. My Communities was developed by Intercasting Corporation, a mobile social networking company. According to AT&T, the new gateway currently offers various social networks, including MySpace, the mobile-only community Rabble, blogging sites including LiveJournal and Xanga and the photo-sharing site...
Target and Photobucket, the leading stand-alone photo and video sharing site, today announced the agreement that offers expanded online photo services for Target guests and new in-store print options for Photobucket users. Beginning today, Target will offer print-to-store services to Photobucket users through www.photobucket.com and www.target.com/photo. After creating a free account on Photobucket, users can upload and organize their photos, edit their images and order prints for pickup...
