Posts Tagged with ‘orkut’

For me, any day is a good day when another developer pops up with a new mobile social platform. Today is such a day, as Jibe is moving from the alpha to the closed beta testing phase.
There have been wealth of new mobile social platforms making appearances as of late. My favorite variety have been mobile social aggregators. This is largely because I have my paws in far too many social applications, and any platform [...]

When I first saw Mike Arrington's post about Google revealing the identity of an Orkut user to Indian officials (leading to an arrest) hit Techmeme yesterday, I knew it was going to stir a bunch of people up. Until the Monday morning Twitter stream started going full-blast, however, I didn't know how vocal the Google detractors were going to be. Google's alleged mantra "Don't Be Evil" gets used quite a bit whenever people don't agree with one of Google's moves, [...]

You know how most things to do with technology are supposedly slanted toward the male segment of the human species?
Yes, I?m sure you?re aware. Aware of that assumption, anyway. And it?s completely understandable as to why exactly people feel that that is the case. After all, one doesn?t typically find airport lounges and cafes populated by a great deal of women wielding laptop computers, clicking away happily, content to spend their waken moments in their own personal virtual worlds. [...]

There’s a great deal of talk surrounding recent news coming out of Mountain View as of late. Understandably so. In the last week or so, we’ve seen revealed a number of grand projects by Google: one having to do with the development of an open Web platform, dubbed OpenSocial; another having to do with a software-specific mobile project. (Yesterday, Google publicly divulged the outline of that mobile project, now known as the Open Handset Alliance.)
And there’s also been ample chatter [...]

Yaari is Hindi for friendship and Prerna Gupta, founder and CEO of Yaari.com and co-founder Parag Chordia, are playing heavily on that key word to create a social network for the Indian youth. Their goal is to go head-to-head with Google?s Orkut for the Indian market.
In an interview with Kiruba Shankar at PodTech India, Ms. Gupta born, raised and still living in the USA had this to say, ?Well, I first came up with the idea in June of [...]

Multiply is a Florida-based social network targeted towards an older audience than Facebook and MySpace. It has been around since 2003, but has struggled to become as popular as some of its competition.
2007 has proved to be the most successful year so far for Multiply, which saw more than 10 million visitors in August, a number that is rising by 10% per month. Chief executive Peter Pezaris has even claimed that unique visitors to the site have doubled since Multiply's [...]

For those wonder when, oh when, Google is going to get serious about social networking, the wait is over. Maybe. Well, we’re not quite sure just yet.
Most of us know something about the network Big G’s been maintaining these past few years, called Orkut. Popular in some parts of the southwestern hemisphere, it’s been a piece of Google not very much spoken for by Mountain View.
Now, however, Google is showing signs that it’s paying closer attention to the social Web [...]

Truemor: What Google is *really* planning for 2008. Okay, the rumor starts here(my theory, doh)… Short version: elgoog (Google) is planning to launch the world's largest social networking site 'overnight' and at the flick of a switch and will become the Mitsubishi of the internet.
Huh? Exactly. Let me explain… while Yahoo! and others continue to explore acquisitions in the social networking space (e.g. Bebo et al), and the “buy-me-I'm-Facebook” dance continues, stop and ask yourself a question: having already built or acquired [...]

A few weeks ago, I started noticing a trend in some of the latest community site releases from some heavy hitters. iVillage was rolling out a new community feature. Even the usually hyper-paranoid-about-image Disney was launching a user-created content site. There definitely seems to be a trend with companies to attracting women, particularly mothers, to Web 2.0 sites.
However, as I started looking at these sites, and others I would have assumed were also being helmed by women, I noticed [...]