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Mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. While many LBS applications will include features allowing the sharing of real-time experiences ...

AOL announced a brand new homepage available here that will let consumers access multiple social networking services directly from AOL.com, becoming the first major portal to offer direct access to information from major social networking sites. This follows the move last month to provide access to multiple e-mail services from ...

myYearbook is now the fastest-growing online social network in the United States. comScore says that it is now the 14th largest site in the US as measured by page views and the 19th largest site as measured by total minutes spent.

ClipBlast!, the premier Web-wide video navigation and distribution platform, today announced its partnership with Clearspring Technologies to distribute and track video widgets. ClipBlast! will use the Clearspring platform to distribute widgets that provide custom video content, channels and playlists. The widgets will feature the ClipBlast! Intelligent Index, which enables ...

The Answers Corporation announced that its WikiAnswers social knowledge Q&A community reached four million questions only 72 days after reaching the 3 million milestone.

DailyMe is putting a face to the news. The interactive media and technology start-up today announced the launch of Meme-It, which allows users to vote on news stories based on the responses the stories trigger. DailyMe users can choose from six distinct descriptors by clicking on the appropriate Meme-It ...

Pluck announced that Swift Communications is using Pluck’s technology platform to power new social media capabilities across Swift’s portfolio of digital properties. Swift Communications publishes more than 30 regional news and information sites in the northwest U.S., including the The Union (California), Vail Daily (Colorado) and The Greeley Tribune (Colorado).

Gaia Online, the leading online hangout for teens, today announced an $11 million Series C round of venture funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). At a time when eMarketer is predicting the number of teen internet users visiting virtual worlds will jump from the reported 8.2 million users in 2007 ...