It’s Friday. Your plans just fell through. It’s 8pm – the night isn’t getting any younger. You’ve worked hard all week, and you’re determined play. You don’t know what to do. More accurately, you don’t know what there is to do. Sponto does. This DC-headquartered, location-based social networking mobile app allows users to see what…
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Pinterest is extremely addicting – maybe moreso than Facebook for some people. But if you use it regularly, I bet you are frustrated by at least one of the following problems: frequent 502 errors, show-stopping bugs, lack of privacy settings, and inability to use it on your iPad. Meet Juxtapost, a simple-to-use social discovery website…
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Facebook owns social. LinkedIn owns professional. How about recreational? “The bet we’ve made is that people have 3 big persona’s in their life: social, professional, and recreational,” says Gabe Lozano, LockerDome Co-Founder and CEO. ”We want to cover recreational – an area that we believe people are more passionate about than any of the…
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It’s no secret that social media is an important part of managing a brand’s customer relations and marketing. Facebook and Twitter have become popular channels for customers to recommend or trash products and brands, as well as places for brands to connect with their existing and potential customers. Many companies offer tools and services aimed…
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Early this morning a new social network that focuses on quality, rather than quantity, of relationships launched publicly to beta testers. Much like Path, Ourspot focuses on creating a platform for only the closest relationships, but on a web instead of mobile platform. And much like Pintrest, this new service encourages users to tag inspiring…
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We like to share. We share what where we are. We share what we’re doing, and who we’re doing it with. We share what we’re eating. We share what we’re watching. We share what we’re listening to. But there seems to be no consensus favorite service to share what books we are currently reading. Readmill…
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Last week, a new Facebook application borrowing on Second Life’s theme of an alternate, digital reality, announced it’s launch. Much like Second Life, Dot Friends is a virtual landscape where friends can hang out, chat, buy virtual products, but .Friends ties in a Facebook users’ profiles, allowing a more seamless transition into their offline worlds. “While…
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When Locai launched at the 2011 SXSW Conference, they were quite taken aback by the competition and the noise surrounding location-based services and apps. They quickly decided to make adjustments to differentiate themselves, so they shifted focus from consumers to businesses and launched a platform that lets you create a community around a brand, retail…
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“We were looking for an idea that would change the world,” Nextdoor founder Nirav Tolia told me during a guided tour of the members-only site. “We started this a year and a half ago when we realized there were no locally-driven social networks that connect neighborhoods – and neighborhoods are the original social networks.” Following…
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If you are a big fan of social games, you never want to miss out on the action, but every time you want to check your game status, you have to open your browser and log in to your Facebook account to continue playing. Imagine being just one click away from your favorite games and…
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It’s a nanoblog Just 7 words for sharing Poignant micro-tweets Follow and DM Post short hyckus with pictures Sounds so familiar Limit: two-five-five Not one-four-oh like Twitter And links count there too But psst! here’s a trick Forget to use the spacebar Crisis averted Wordslikethisarefine Abbreviations also Cheating ftw Others failed before Adocu and Jaiku…
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If you are an obsessive social media user with a sense of adventure, LA-based startup Chatterpop, which demo’d at our Tech Cocktail Los Angeles mixer last week, has developed an easy-to-use video app with a social learning underpinning. The vision behind Chatterpop is to create a new way to make, share, and experience the world…
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We all know that content is “king.” Thoughtful, meaningful, original online content garners high SEO results – true back in the early days of search engines, and still true now. However, if content is king, then smart and thoughtful user-generated content about your company is, well, pure gold. And like gold, you have to sift…
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If you’re not creatively marketing your company on social media with photos and videos, you might as well not be using Facebook or Twitter at all. Make it a lot easier on yourself using a very interesting photo advertising tool developed by 3 former Sony employees. In a nutshell, PhotoTouch lets you take a photo…
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Favo.rs, a startup based in San Francisco that we showcased at last week’s mixer event in that fine city, helps professionals build relationships. I know what you’re thinking - “Good luck going up against LinkedIn!” – because I thought that too. When I asked founder Adam Rodnitzky about their key differentiator, here’s what he said,…
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Think of the last concert or major sporting event you attended – did you check in via Facebook, or maybe Foursquare? Tweet about it? Post a clip to YouTube? Chances are good that you did. And if you didn’t, guaranteed there were people who did. A lot of them. That shared content has become an…
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