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[17 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]
Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect is an online service by Google that allows users on the internet to connect with their friends on different websites.
Google Friend Connect is an Open Social application offered by Google that started in May 2008. Google Friend Connect main focus is to simplify the connection between social and non-social websites and standardize the handling and presentation of social applications and content. It uses a blend of open standards, such as OpenID for signin, oAuth to control data, and Open Social for applications.

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[15 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]
MySpace Music

MySpace Music section differ from normal profiles in allowing artists to upload up to six MP3 songs. The uploader must have rights to use the songs (e.g. their own work, permission granted, etc). Unsigned musicians can use MySpace to post and sell music using SNOCAP, which has proven popular among MySpace users.

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[11 Jan 2009 | 3 Comments | ]
Live Mesh

Live Mesh is a data synchronization system from Microsoft that allows files and folders to be shared and synchronized across multiple devices. Live Mesh consists of a software component that allows synchronization relationships to be created among different devices. Once a folder is set for synchronization, it will be available in all devices, and any changes made to the content of the folder will be reflected across all devices. Live Mesh uses FeedSync to convey the changes made in each device so that the changes can be synchronized. The …

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[7 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]
DateHookup.com

DateHookup.com is a 100% free dating site (you knew that already right?). Why does that matter? Well, besides the obvious benefit of being free for everything, we can have a lot of great features that pay sites don’t have. Pay sites are only concerned with one thing, getting you to pay. All we care about is you having a good experience using this site so you can tell your single friends to join! Any pay sites you know of that have forums, friends, fully customizable profiles, etc? Nope!

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[7 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]
Plentyoffish.com

PlentyofFish is a free online dating service. The founder and sole operator, 29-year-old Markus Frind, runs the site from his 83-square-metre Vancouver apartment. The site pulls in more than $5 million a year from Google advertising.
Markus Frind, CEO and Founder of Plentyoffish Media Inc., graduated in 1999 from British Columbia Institute of Technology with a diploma in Computer Systems Technology. Over the next few years, he worked for several dot.com companies as the number of them in Vancouver began to wane. Markus ended up working at a company as …

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[26 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | ]
FriendFeed

FriendFeed is a feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS/ Atom feed. Users can use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share (and comment) with friends.
Bloggers writing about FriendFeed have said that this service addresses the shortcomings of social media services which exclusively facilitate tracking of their own members’ social media activities on that particular social media service, whereas FriendFeed provides the facility to track …

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[25 Dec 2008 | One Comment | ]
OneSeason.

OneSeason.com, an online sports entertainment company, today unveiled the first sports trading platform in the United States that uses real money. Created by sports fans, for sports fans, OneSeason.com enables users to compete, interact and have a vested interest in their passion. Users showcase their sports knowledge by acquiring and trading virtual shares of their favorite players, teams and leagues realizing market returns based on their skill.
On OneSeason.com users build a “Sportfolio” as they trade shares, called Synthetic Ownership Interests (SOIs), via a free market system that is driven …

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[25 Dec 2008 | One Comment | ]
Gyminee

Gyminee is a new social network focused on health and fitness, with work out and tracking tools included in its service. The site is not yet live, but I got to test drive the private beta.
There are two main components of the site: your locker room, and your workouts. These two components work hand in hand to help you track your progress and stay on track. Enter in the goals you’d like to set for yourself. You can track several aspects of your health and fitness, like water intake, …