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Meet Potential Lovers using CrazyBlindDate

After beta testing in Austin for over a month, CrazyBlindDate is offering in three cities - Boston, San Francisco and New York city. Bringing the concept of blind date to the web, it offers privacy and more...
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Plaxo Pulse goes OpenSocial

Orkut, Ning, Plaxo, Ning, hi5, Friendster - all had early access to Google's OpenSocial API and have started rolling out products for customers. Plaxo Pulse, the online calendar and address book is the more...
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Google prepares to launch OpenSocial

Google will be launching OpenSocial (OS) on November 1st. OpenSocial will enable developers to create applications that work on all social networks. Opensocial is billed as Social Network platform consisting more...
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Dig Silicon Valley’s Girls

Reminding one of the dot com days, here is a site that tries to rank Silicon Valley girls in the typical Digg style. Check out the site yourself, for we offer no comments regarding the idea or its implementati more...
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Google's Maka-Maka and other issues

John Battelle summarizes some hot buttons in the face of well, Facebook, privacy issues and the latest buzz around the world - Google's answer to Facebook seems to be codenamed Maka-Maka or Makamaka within more...
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Metrofunk.com, The World's First Invite-Only Social Network

Dedicated to nightlife, music, fashion and movies, Metrofunk is claiming to be the world's first invite-only social network. Their aim is to allow industry trendsetters such as nightclub promoters, fashion more...
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Five shiny new mobile social networks

BluePulse, Trutap, Utterz, Whrrl and Rummble. And Mumble (sorry, not that one). Here are five new startups attacking the mobile social networking space. At CTIA they made some buzz. more...
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Friendster Joins the Platform Party

Friendster is joining the widget party late and is announcing that starting Nov. 30th, Friendster API with be available to developers to integrate their widgets. Unlike Facebook where the developers have more...
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How Do Facebook Apps Spread?

Facebook has added new matrics which lets the app developers gauge the best way to market and promote their apps on the Facebook Social Network. more...
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CapaZoo - The Canadian Social Network with a twist

CapaZoo is a Canadian Social Network with a twist. It offers various ways to make money off you while giving you a chance to make money as well. more...
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