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Submitted by actz
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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
More than 400,000 users downloaded the MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application in its first week of availability, representing a record for both MySpace and the application's creators -- Research In Motion. The application gives BlackBerry users the ability to receive updates and send messages in real time, as well as upload photographs to their profile. Since the application's launch on November 13, users have sent and received more than 15m messages and updated their mood and status over 2m times. Bloombla links: I've listened to music on MySpace I've downloaded the MySpace for my BlackBerry
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Submitted by actz
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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
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About a year ago ago we conducted the first U.S. study on product reviewers to understand who they are and what motivates them to write reviews. In that study we found that 90% of customers write reviews to ‘help others’. This year we conducted similar research with Keller Fay in the UK. We found – believe it or not – similar results! We conducted a post-review intercept survey across several Bazaarvoice retail clients and found that Brits are driven by altruism when they write product reviews. We surveyed almost 3,800 Brits who wrote reviews on online e-commerce sites, and 94% of them said it was important to write reviews to help other consumers make good purchase decisions. And their altruism doesn’t end with consumers; 82% of those surveyed said they wrote reviews to help companies make better decisions about the products they offer. Also, most UK reviews are positive – 86% of UK reviewers said they left positive feedback online, and 11% said their comments were equally split between positive and negative. This reflects what we continue to find in the ratings J-Curve, which we discovered in 2006. Bloombla links:
I've written a product review
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Submitted by actz
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
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Space Music just sent over an announcement that they’ve signed a deal with IODA, an indie music label. The partnership promises to add over “one million new songs into MySpace Music’s growing indie catalogue.”
The IODA roster includes thousands of labels, including Arts & Crafts, Ace Records, Bonnier Amigo, Cherry Red Records, Cooking Vinyl, Demon Music Group, Fat Cat Records, Kanine Records, Light in the Attic, Paper Bag Records, Naïve, Premium Latin Music, Relapse, Rounder Records and Six Degrees.
The partnership is pretty significant since there remain very few other large established music distributors that MySpace lacks a partnership with at this point. Click below to start Blooming...  I've had a MySpace account
I've signed a record deal
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Submitted by actz
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
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Who can say Bloombla ...
Say it, Bloombla ok now that's out of the way what's the big deal? Well Bloombla has become a bit of a buzz word traveling around the web for the past week. Its a new social network that aims to connect the entire world together. This is quite exciting and gives us all a feeling that social networks still have a bit of life left.
I'll give you all a quick run down of this exciting new service. Basically its all quite simple, everything you've done in your life is called a Bloom. Don't worry if you find yourself saying "that's something to bloom" later today, it also got me. They ask everyone one questions "What have you done?" by answering this in their structured sentence they can start connecting you with other.
Each Bloom will then be added to your life and then create another layer where you can view others who have also "Done it!". This layer reminds me of a wall of sorts for each Bloom where users are able to share their stories, experiences and interact with each other.
It seems like they've thought of everything. You can easily import friend from Facebook and they will automatically be added to your friends list or invite friends to the service. Your activity feed will give you updates of all your friends blooming activity and stories you've missed. We've contacted Bloombla and if you find this fun they have promised much more exciting things to come. Follow their blog.bloombla.com “Imagine being able to connect to individuals that you have never met but at some point in their lives they stood in the same room. This is something here at Bloombla we believe to be possible.“ said Anton Ygartua, co-founder of Bloombla.
"Bloombla's designed and structured in a way that everything a user enters means something to us. With this information we are able to do many things beyond just connecting people." said Jamie Learmonth, co-founder of Bloombla. "We have a way of categorising all blooms entered into our system and provide an easy way of quickly adding them. In turn this gives us endless possibilities and we believe our timing is perfect."
So far they have had some amazing reviews from Mashable "Bloombla is an exceptional new service to try out" and Pocket-LInt "This is brand new and could really catch on... Bloomin' marvelous".
Bloombla's API will start its life on GeekNewz from today.
We love Blooming and we've decided to open our arms to Bloombla's API. Every article will now feature a few Blooms related to the article for everyone to click on.
Bloombla is a privately funded venture by Boxlight Media Ltd . Click below to start Blooming... I've joined the website Bloombla I've registered on Facebook I've read the Bloombla article on GeekNewz
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Submitted by actz
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
New Facebook Home Page, New Facebook Tagline Means Too Many Marketing Meetings At Facebook
Facebook launched more than a new iPhone app this evening - they also have a new home page (the page you see when you aren’t logged in) and a new tagline. Gone is all the descriptive language suggesting you sign up to “Keep up with friends and family,” “Share photos and videos,” “Control privacy online,” and “Reconnect with old classmates.” Now Facebook has a simple message to entice you to sign up: “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life.”
They’ve also removed the language around being a social utility, although I suspect we haven’t heard the last of it. The old tagline was “Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you” and was used by Facebook customer service reps to claim Facebook wasn’t a social network and that people should use it primarily to connect with offline friends: View
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Submitted by actz
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
San Francisco - Social news site Digg announced on Wednesday that it has landed a $28.7 million third round of venture capital financing, led by Highland Capital Partners.
Previous backers Greylock Partners, Omidyar Network and SVB Capital also participated.
San Francisco-based Digg, which was founded in 2004 and now counts 30 million unique monthly visitors, allows users to share news articles, blog posts and other content on a site that ranks submissions according to their popularity among Digg users.
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Submitted by actz
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
Gmail turned online email on its ear when it popped up a few years back. Naturally, there are more than just a few Gmail extensions for Firefox for an improved user experience. Want a more dynamic signature? How about the ability to open multiple Gmail accounts at once in the same browser? What about the chance to write your emails from right to left? All of these and more are available via these 13 Gmail extensions.
As with any list of Firefox tools, please do not install all of these at once unless you’d like to slow down your browser.
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Submitted by actz
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 |
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Business social networking site LinkedIn has created an advertising network that will allow partner publishers to identify LinkedIn users and target them across hundreds of sites. The site has joined ad network Collective Media to create the LinkedIn Audience Network, which lets advertisers target specific sections of LinkedIn users - called the InCrowds - based on the information in their profiles. Targeting could be based on the type of industry - such as aviation, pharmaceuticals or IT - the level of seniority, size of company or the gender of users, although individuals will not be identified and can opt out. Full Article
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Submitted by actz
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Monday, 08 September 2008 |
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Germany’s Office for Information Security, also known as the BSI, has apparently looked at Google’s Chrome browser and felt a pinch of uneasy déjà vu (a la Microsoft), only this time sensing that the company behind the software wants to know too much about you, too often. As a result, the BSI is advising anyone who’ll listen to steer clear of the crayon invader’s brand new beta. At least for anything other than experimental tasks. Though this isn’t a warning stretched to the whole EU, the fact is that the BSI’s red flag has been shown by a number of German media stalwarts, including Berliner Zeitung and Tagesschau, the second of which is a news program widely viewed by the public. Which makes for fairly substantial news.
Read More at Mashable
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Submitted by actz
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
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Google announced Monday that it has been hard at work on an open-source browser known as Chrome, a beta version of which will be released in 100 countries on Tuesday. New features will included "isolated" tabs designed to prevent browser crashes and a more powerful JavaScript engine. "Why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web," Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, Google engineering director, wrote in a blog post. Google was apparently looking to keep news of Chrome under wraps until after the holiday weekend. A 38-page, online comic book that provided details about Chrome hit the blogosphere Monday morning, but Pichai and Upson said in their blog post that Google had "hit 'send' a bit early" on the web comic.
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