Mar 31
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Mytopia Opens MMO-Style Online Games to hi5 Members

Mytopia announced today that members of the leading international social network, hi5, can now play MMO-style online games with their friends across the internet and on other popular social networks, including MySpace, Facebook and Bebo. All members have to do is log in to the social gaming community on hi5 to enjoy games […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Mar 31
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hi5 Launches Developer Platform and Joins as Founding Member of OpenSocial Foundation

Today is a pretty big day, as far as announcements go, for hi5, which is a leading international social networking site. They announced the launch of a robust development platform that offers common APIs to third-party developers, including the ones on OpenSocial, which will be used to create social applications for hi5 members.
This platform […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Mar 31
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MySpace Now Offers Text Message Alerts to Users’ Mobile Phones

Today MySpace, the most popular social network, announced that most of its users can now use MySpace’s text message alert program on their mobile phone across major U.S. wireless service providers. The text alerts will be sent via mBlox, and is currently available from Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA, U.S. Cellular, Virgin Mobile USA, and […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Mar 30
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Calling All Psychics- Get Paid to Predict Future Events with Predictify

Predictify is a fairly new web 2.0 startup where users can predict future events, and, given that their prediction accuracy is good, can make money from it. The concept of Predictify is very simple and predicting events or asking questions to be predicted, which you choose, is free.
With Predictify you can either submit […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Mar 30
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Fame Experiment- Using the Internet to Achieve Real Fame

Fame Experiment is a new start-up that is running an experiment to see if the internet can “be used to generate enough exposure for one person to experience public recognition.” They are investigating whether or not the internet is a separate entity within our society, or whether it has become intertwined as an integral […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Mar 28
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Zemanta- Stop Trolling the Web to Find Content for Your Blog Posts

Zemanta is a fairly new web 2.0 start-up that wants to help bloggers find useful content to add to their posts without having the blogger search the web for it. Zemanta says that they will have “your browser understand what you are blogging about and suggest pictures, links, articles and tags to make […]

Author: Jonathon Walden