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In a timely find, I was traveling through Austin this past weekend and was looking for a quick and easy way to find out what was happening around the town and I found a newly launched news aggregator, LocalSpur.com.

Demand Media announced the availability of Facebook Connect features and functionality within the company’s industry leading Pluck social media platform. By combining the two technologies, Pluck and Facebook enable users on Pluck customer sites to share their community interactions with their friends on Facebook. The integration offers an unprecedented model ...

Disaboom , an online community for people with disabilities, today announced that it achieved one of its key benchmarks – a million unique visitors per month – months in advance of its own projections. “We knew we’d been making steady and substantial progress over the past months,” notes Disaboom ...

CorkSavvy just launched a Wine Journal and Virtual Bottle Rack for Facebook. With CorkSavvy for Facebook, users can share notes on wines they've tasted or purchased with anyone across their social network. CorkSavvy brings wine lovers a suite of tools that both educate and entertain. Users can keep a ...

Pluck announced that its technology platform empowered a landslide victory for its customers’ integrated community efforts this past election week. Through hundreds of millions of article comments, photos, videos, forum posts, social networking profiles, recommendations and ratings before, during and after election day, Pluck answered the call from its network ...

The following is an opinion editorial provided by Erik Bowman, Founder and President, Spoink, Inc.: In today’s distressed economic climate both businesses and individuals are looking for new and novel ways to generate income. With microblogs increasingly becoming highly valued sources of information, entertainment, and community networking, now is the ...

Socialwise announced that it has secured an agreement with RockYou. The agreement will enable RockYou to utilize the Socialwise Group Gifting Platform and the BillMyParents payment system. First to be integrated will be Birthday Cards, a popular birthday calendar and event application on Facebook. Birthday Cards has more than ...

Despite the fact that many marketers feel like they are losing the race to adopt social media practices, the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), today announced the findings of their social media membership survey which reveals most marketers are still in the early or experimental phases of adopting and measuring ...

8e6 Technologies, an Internet security company that proactively protects organizations against Internet-based threats, today announced the results of a recent survey of employees in the United States and United Kingdom documenting the prevalence of personal Internet use in the workplace. Results indicate the most popular sites viewed at work in ...

HiveLive announced today that it is working with three new customers to provide uniquely branded and customized online communities.