XibYa Groups-Explorer application greatly improves the understanding of shared interests and offers a new interaction tool with friends on Facebook. You can now view Facebook groups and pages in a revolutionary 2D map that enhances interactions.
XibYa, a developer of productivity and collaboration applications for social networking on Facebook, has launched today a new version of their successful Facebook social mapping application, Groups-Explorer, ideally designed for those wishing to explore friends’ groups and fans’ pages.
The unique Facebook app, which can be accessed from this link http://apps.facebook.com/xibya-group-explorer/ allows users to view their …

Target Latino, a multicultural and Latino consumer specialist marketing firm, has introduced a Multicultural Social Media Monitoring tool, SMX Echo, in the United States.
SMX Echo is a Multicultural Market Intelligence Solution that scans for relevant results and automatically analyzes sentiment in English, Spanish and Portuguese and has been named “a tool of choice — especially when it comes to multicultural marketing and public relations campaigns” by the Huffington Post.
“I have evaluated many well-known social media monitoring tools available and what impressed me the most about SMX Echo was its ability …

LinkedIn®, the world’s largest professional network with more than 60 million members globally, today announced the launch of the LinkedIn application for BlackBerry® smartphones at www.linkedin.com/blackberry and on BlackBerry App World™. This application complements LinkedIn’s other mobile offerings for the iPhone® and Palm Pre™ to give members more choices on how to use LinkedIn away from their offices and computers.
“With the addition of the application for BlackBerry to our broader suite of mobile applications, LinkedIn is available to more business people than any other professional network in the world,” said …

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has launched StrengthofUs.org, a new online community.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has launched StrengthofUs.org, a new online community where young adults living with mental health concerns can provide mutual support in navigating unique challenges and opportunities during the critical transition years from ages 18 to 25.
Developed by young adults, StrengthofUs.org is a user-driven social networking community where members can connect with peers, share personal stories, creativity and helpful resources by writing and responding to blog entries, engaging in discussion groups …

WebMediaBrands Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets of Rotorblog.com. Rotorblog was created in 2006 to cover the social media space. It currently attracts approximately 200,000 unique visitors a month. Terms for the acquisition were not disclosed.
“Rotorblog will be a terrific addition to our stable of blogs covering the social media space,” stated Alan M. Meckler, Chairman and CEO of WebMediaBrands. “In recent months we also acquired the blogs All Facebook and Social Times along with a variety of trade shows dealing with social gaming and social media topics.”
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The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies will host an interactive, worldwide discussion on social media risk management during this year’s Risk & Insurance Management Society annual conference April 26-29. Using online collective intelligence software developed by Imaginatik, individuals and business professionals around the world, along with registrants to the Boston conference, are invited to join a dialogue that aims to identify and reduce the emerging risks businesses face as a result of Web 2.0 platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and corporate blogs.
“When musician Dave Carroll posted his video on …

CNN announced that Stacey Rabsatt has moved into a new position as Sales Director for Southeast Asia. Based in Singapore and reporting to William Hsu, Vice President, CNN Advertising Sales Asia Pacific, she will be responsible for driving the sales of CNN's diverse portfolio of products in Southeast Asia, focusing on developing new business and managing strategic partnerships with key clients.
Rabsatt joined Turner's Singapore office in December 2001 as an account manager. Her wealth of regional and international experience, in both developed and emerging media markets, has been …

Humanity Calls invites nonprofits to participate in the eBay Earth Day Fundraising Tournament at www.humanitycalls.org. The tournament’s cash pool has been seeded with $50,000 generously donated by eBay and will grow significantly during the tournament as individual donations magnify the amount available to all winning nonprofits. At the end of the tournament, the top voted nonprofits will share proportionally in the tournament cash pool.
The eBay Earth Day Tournament is open to all nonprofits focused on the environment, including issues such as climate change, conservation, recycling, renewable energy, pollution and more. …

hi5, the largest social entertainment site focused on gaming, today announced the availability of its new branded app for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari web browsers. The new custom browser app is designed to drive participation, monetization and loyalty among the site’s 50 million monthly visitors. Created using the Conduit® Platform, the hi5 browser app allows members to log in to their account, connect with friends, access their favorite hi5 games, update their profile and status, receive desktop notifications and earn virtual coins in real-time, from wherever they are …

Conduit for Your Website enables you to build a custom toolbar or app for your website. You can Put your site on a customized, branded toolbar and offer it to your users. Or repackage your content into an App which both users and other publishers can then add to their browser or toolbar. Conduit can also build Desktop Alerts to notify your entire user base within seconds.
“The Conduit platform allows publishers of all sizes to easily create powerful Apps using their brand and content. This enables them to extend their …

On March 20, Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko will defend his IBF, WBO and IBO Heavyweight titles against WBO #1 ranked fighter American Eddie Chambers at ESPRIT arena Düsseldorf, Germany. The fight is available for viewing online only and will not be aired by any pay-per-view, cable or broadcast channels. This is first time that American boxing fans can only see a live heavyweight fight online. The Conduit Platform was chosen to deliver live broadcasting of the match via a custom app that will be shared with 220,000 publishers and 100,000,000 users …

nDreams announced the launch of ‘Spirit of Adventure’, the first ever soap opera on Facebook. Spirit of Adventure features a rich, twisting story that will be revealed week-by-week, written by Christian Wheeler (writer of Bramwell, a period drama for ITV, and PlayStation Home’s cult cross-media game, Xi). It combines a compelling tale and strong characters with a variety of puzzles to create a unique narrative-driven Facebook experience.
“This is the first time social storytelling in this form has been delivered on Facebook,” said Patrick O’Luanaigh, CEO of nDreams. “It allows people …

With web video becoming increasingly popular among consumers, ClassifiedFlyerAds has launched automatic video creation and distribution to aid marketers in gaining increased online visibility. The new feature will automatically create a photo-video from images uploaded to member listings on ClassifiedFlyerAds.com. The video will be optimized for search and advertised on YouTube.
ClassifiedFlyerAds.com members create professional online listing ads for properties, autos, products, services, or jobs by uploading photos and filling in basic listing details. With the launch of the video creation feature, the photos are automatically transformed into web-quality videos …

Mobile social network provider Gypsii announced in March 2010 that is would launch a new application that integrates location and social networking technology with Twitter.
Known as Tweetsii, the app provides users with the ability to geo-tag tweets, add pictures and video to tweets and search tweets based on location. Tweetsii will also integrate any updates posted by Gypsii users as well as other mobile social networks such as Gowalla and FourSquare.
Tweetsii will be firstly rolled out to iPhone users, followed by Android and BlackBerry.

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Twitter announced Monday that the company plans to introduce a new service called “@anywhere.” The new service will allow Twitter users to connect to their own Twitter accounts through Websites such as The New York Times and eBay, “Users will be about to follow their favorite columnist or writer directly from the publishers’ site. Facebook Connect already allows Facebook users to sign into third party website.
Twitter says “rather than implementing APIs, site owners need only to drop in a few lines of javascript” to implement the new @anywhere service.
Initial …