Kickapps

29Jun07

Kickapps has really improved leaps and bounds since it first launched. Much like Ning, you can create a social network with blogs, photo-sharing and videos in a matter of clicks.
I  remember trying the service out a year ago and I couldn’t even register! The application form didn’t accept my country. I wrote to them and [...]

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Twittervision and Twitter

04Jun07

Twittervision is an offspring-cum-mashup of twitter. It allows you to see what everyone in the world is yabbering on about at twitter against a google map.
Although you can’t really do anything on Twittervision except pan and zoom (which is quite painful, really), it’s great fun to watch the world twitter about something or another.  It [...]

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Cyworld

03May07

Cyworld is Korea’s leading social networking website. While many English social networking sites are struggling with how to make revenue, Cyworld is churning $300,000 a day.
Cyworld is focused. The site is targetted at teens and 20-somethings – people who have time to create networks, homepages and 3-D virtual rooms. Users can buy virtual items to [...]

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Hitchsters.com

05Apr07

Move over Friendster.com. With Hitchsters.com you can meet new friends by sharing a cab.
You arrive in a new city, tired and alone, and queue for an overpriced taxi ride, spent glumly staring from the window … It needn’t be that way. A new website can find you a cab-sharing companion, to halve the cost and [...]

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