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Nokia has acquired Plazes, which develops Web platforms for location sharing and publishing, making it the second geo-based company bought by Nokia. The deal allows Nokia to extend its context-based service offering with social presence and time-based activity planning features. Plazes adds the elements of place and time to social networking through features that allow people to alert friends and associates to their activities and locations. Users can also review their own and others’ past activities and share their experiences and make plans with friends, who can respond with comments and suggestions as well as their own location information. Using Plazes, users can also review their own and others’ past activities and share their experiences and make plans with friends, who can respond with comments and suggestions as well as their own location information.
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Property Network, a new dedicated social network for property investors worldwide has been launched this month. The website provides a central online community for investors, agents, landlords and the like to meet, discuss ideas and develop their contacts and business potential. The Property Network ( http://www.property-networks.net) provides members with a space to communicate with people from the industry, upload images and videos, post blogs, and discuss all areas of property investment in the forums.
Relatip.com is the first online community for Intellectual Property attorneys and other practitioners that has been officially launched at the International Trademark Association annual meeting. After the launch, Relatip.com CEO said “Intellectual Property networking goes online.” Relatip.com is a joint venture of a patent and trademark attorneys’ law firm and a software company. It is a social network that allows each IP professional to register, write a blog, upload video content, ask and answer questions at the professional forums, and be updated with the recent news and events in the field.
IBM’s new hub for collaborative development, Rational Team Concert, is due by the end of this month. Rational Team Concert would give the company’s Rational software development platform a social networking injection. Rational Team Concert attempts to let all participants in the development process, apart from developers, collaborate. When a developer sits down to work, for example, he can see all other project members that are logged in at the moment, regardless of their location. Developers, project managers, testers, compliance managers, and other team members can use instant messaging to communicate in real time.
The first faith-based multilingual online community has launched in time for Christmas. Providing an online community for people who want to impact their world, the new www.cross.tv combines the best of social networking with high quality HD streaming and a multilingual communications platform. Not only can users upload videos, pictures, publish blogs, add friends and even develop their own sub-networks for their families, churches, ministries or projects. They can also communicate with others and raise awareness of different causes using cross.tv’s unique “cross pollination” functionalities which allows them to publish content in multiple languages.
Blogtronix has released BTX Enterprise, a next-generation secure and robust high performance Social Media platform that integrates collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation between business users, customers and partners. BTX Enterprise was built from the ground up and customized with specific components for three key markets - Financial, Enterprise, and Publishing. Unlike first generation networking solutions, BTX Enterprise is easy to use, scalable and can be delivered either on-demand or as software and includes rich features such as video blogging, podcasting, flash as well as a fully customizable interface. These applications range from corporate in-house collaboration to global user-created networks.
As per its announcements in November, Microsoft has kicked-off a series of changes in its Windows Live suite of software and services, with the addition of a bunch of social networking features. Keeping up its November declaration, Microsoft has added a cluster of social networking features - like e-mailing, instant messaging, image-storage and sharing, online collaboration, and calendaring - to its Windows Live service. The new Windows Live homepage has received a refreshing new look, laying special emphasis on profile, group, and photo-pages.
A new survey conducted by Harris Interactive for IT security firm Cloudmark has raised serious questions about the security of social networks such as Bebo and Facebook. The survey found that over the past year more than four-fifths of social networking site users said they received unwanted or spam friend invitations, messages or postings on their social or professional network account. Jamie de Guerre, chief technical officer of Cloudmark said