Last.fm said yesterday that it will charge its non-U.S., UK and German visitors 3 euros (about $4) a month. Today the music discovery service says it’s also cutting off unofficial apps that are using Last.fm API, a move that has made many independent app writers pretty angry. The latter seems like a move to appease […]

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Project Playlist, a Palo, Alto,Calif.-based service that allows you to create and share playlists, has signed up EMI Music, a move that will allow the users access to EMI’s catalog. They ran afoul of record labels but seems to have made peace with them. Earlier this year, Project Playlist signed up Sony BMG […]

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Traffic Marketplace, a Los Angeles-based ad network, has acquired fbExchange, an ad network focusing on Facebook and social media applications, for an undisclosed amount of money. TMP is going to use fbExchange to diversify its online advertising business to social networks. I first wrote about fbExchange back in 2007. It’s the brainchild of 83Degrees, a […]

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In response to a post by Steve Hodson, “Is Social Media Becoming a Social Mess?,” Elliot Ng said something that resonated with me deeply, even more than the valid question being asked by the original post.
“My problem with social media is that it is heavily focused on itself. Tweeting about Twitter. Blogging about blogging. […]

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Nimbuzz is a free app that lets you call (VoIP), chat, message, and send photos, music and video on your iPhone, which was recently made available on the Apple App Store. Using a centralized contact list you can connect with all your buddies on Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, StudiVZ, Hyves, Jabber and Twitter, plus popular social networks including Facebook and MySpace. It features presence (who´s online and where), group calling, chatrooms, and more.

If your buddies are offline, let them know you’re trying to get in touch by sending them a “Buzz”. It will start Nimbuzz Mobile on their mobile phone. Nice feature.

Nimbuzz is pretty similar to fring, which I’ve used extensively. One thing Nimbuzz has up on fring is that it supports regional social network support including German StudiVZ, Dutch Hyves and Polish Gadu-Gadu.

Go download your copy on the Apple App Store today!

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VoxOx just released a new version of their “Universal Communicator”, which aims to combine VoIP, video, and social networks. VoxOx aims to take on Skype by offering more social networking features. Last year, I wrote an article titled Skype Could Trump Facebook in Social Networking, but Skype still hasn’t added social networking functionality.

In any event, today version 1.0.1 was released, less than a month after their initial launch. I was never able to get the Facebook integration to work, but it was a beta release, so I’m hoping they worked out the kinks.

Here are some new features:

New Additions
• Status field set to your auto-response message when away
• Facebook icons link out to friends’ profiles so you can write on their wall, private message them, etc
• View Facebook contact photos from their VoxOx Profile
• Text Message window remembers Mobile Numbers
• Chat to Email window remembers emails addresses

Bug Fixes
• Call-Back (Web and SMS) fully functional
• Fixed Crash bug when ending calls
• Added default group for new contacts to be saved
• Login screen text updated to “Login Automatically”
• Web Portal login back online

Some of the major updates they are working on include a new and improved user interface, more efficient memory utilization, smoother and faster SMS functionality, enhanced Facebook integration, MySpace integration, and Outlook & Mac address book integration.

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Cyworld, the South Korean social network that launched in the US in 2006 with a splashy party has packed up its bags and left the US market. The South Korean social network that is backed by SK Telecom will layoff its entire staff in the US and will continue to operate the English-language site from South Korea. The service really didn’t get any traction. Its localization efforts were mediocre at best. I bet other smaller marginal social networks meet the same fate.

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Wink, a Mountain View, Calif., people search site is merging with Reunion, a Santa Monica, Calif., social networking site.

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I blame David Hasselhoff.
Everything was going fine for the web — the financial world had been unwinding its overleveraged excesses for nearly a year without nary a ripple into Silicon Valley — until the launch of HoffSpace, a social network revolving around the oogachaka-ing, burger-wagging actor.
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Ringside Networks, a Marlton, NJ-based start-up that had raised an undisclosed amount of in seed funding from Matrix Partners in January 2008 has closed its doors.

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I don’t know how many of you are on LinkedIn or Facebook but it has been a strange couple of weeks. Before I left for IT Expo West, I was getting duplicate invites from several people that I did not know. The unusual part was the duplicates. So I replied to each invite asking for information about what list my email address was on. No reply from the 7 or so folks. Flying back from LA, it’s a week later, still no reply. Why invite me to your network, if you don’t use it or check it?

Also, LinkedIn has started allowing anyone to create a group. And they have. 494 groups when you search telecom. Ridiculous. That’s like buying a new screwdriver and hammer at Sears each time you assemble Saunders furniture. Use the tools that are there and stop creating excess noise.

It would be great if one invite would say something like: “Peter, I joined GotchaNetworks. The discussion about LTE was great and I have discovered one or two prospects.” Then I can understand the invite. But the canned invite because every time someone joins a group or network they upload the whole contact list is patently absurd.  And another lazy thing is the newsletter. You join networks and people add you to their newsletter. It would be fine if there was any value to these “communications” but they come off as marketing fluff. Tell me what you are up to. What topic are you following or finding interest in (or scaring you - no politics or religion please). How about what you get from the network we are both in?

While this is some ranting, the lesson is about Marketing and Persuasion. If you want people to read your stuff, to not think that you are just interrupting them like an email tele-marketer, Respect their time. How to do that? Give value. Think about the message you are sending.

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What makes social networks successful is precisely the thing that makes them vulnerable to hackers: Trusting and sharing with others, sometimes even strangers. Now that they’re under attack from worms and malware, operators are trying to patch security loopholes. But it’s hard to fix the DNA without altering the nature of the organism.
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New data shows that Facebook is growing really fast in key overseas markets. That doesn’t necessarily mean more dollars for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company or end of MySpace, though it seems bad news for its smaller, middle of the road rivals. Continue Reading

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