The UBM TechWeb Game Network, a division of London-headquartered United Business Media and the organizers behind the Game Developers Conferences®, the double Webby Award-winning Gamasutra.com website, and the award-winning Game Developer magazine, has announced a key acquisition expanding its services to game creators and gaming website publishers, adding the online game advertising network Game Advertising Online (GAO) to its portfolio. The ad network, which has been running since 2006, now reaches 50 million unique viewers and serves more than two billion impressions a month. GAO is a Top 150 Quantcast network that is already a major choice for a number of leading free-to-play Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game creators, thanks ... Read More

EggZack.com announced today a new service that allows users to post their information once and automatically update their choice of social media, like Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, LinkedIn, WordPress and Tumblr. The new service is the free part of the EggZack.com information broadcasting platform, a comprehensive means for managing digital communications in one place, with one entry. Co-Founder and CEO Jon Zack stated ”People use a lot of different social media to keep in touch with their friends. Businesses are in the same game with their customers. Yet we know firsthand how time consuming it is to update each one separately. So, we made it faster and easier for them to update everything. And, we made it totally free to ... Read More

Google has launched Google Buzz onto the social media netscape. Described as mix between Facebook and Twitter it requires a user to log on to Gmail to use it or register a Gmail account if they do not have one already. Google Buzz includes features such as: Auto-following; Public and private sharing; Box integration; Provide status updates to contacts; Share video and photos; Mobile access. While well received by some, others have described it as an unwanted and unneeded tool that is difficult to disable. Google has received many complaints regarding privacy issues. In particular users are concerned that their personal contacts are being made public without their knowledge and they lack control over who can follow their movements. Google ... Read More

LifePics announced today the BETA launch of its Facebook integration, which allows consumers to share images from their LifePics online account to their Facebook page, as well as add their Facebook images to their LifePics account. The integration is the latest application launched through LifePics’ OPEN program, which gives app developers and affiliate sites the ability to drive users, images, and orders into the LifePics Retail Network. “We are thrilled with what LifePics has been doing this year to drive us orders,” said Mandy Earnshaw, Lab Manager at Precision Camera. “LifePics’ OPEN program gives our customers more places to access their digital images and send the images to our store to print, and the ... Read More

Zabaware is the maker of the award winning Ultra Hal software, artificial intelligence technology that won the “most human” computer of the year in the 17th annual Loebner Prize Competition for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Zabaware’s Ultra Hal has recently become an app on Facebook that socially interacts with and learns from Facebook users that talk with it. Zabaware is an Erie, Pennsylvania based company that specializes in artificial intelligence technology. The company’s mission “giving your computer the power of thought” once considered a futuristic pipe dream is becoming a reality. It is one thing to talk to your computer it is quite another to have a conversation where you are exchanging information and ... Read More

Facebook and PayPal today announced a strategic relationship to offer PayPal in key parts of Facebook’s advertising and developer systems. As part of the relationship, advertisers around the world will soon be able to use PayPal to pay for Facebook Ads through the company’s online advertising tool. For businesses in areas where the payment process can be difficult and expensive, the option to pay with PayPal makes it even easier for advertisers, particularly small international companies, to run campaigns on Facebook. Facebook reaches more than 400 million people, 70 percent of whom live outside the United States. In addition, PayPal will become a payment option for Facebook Credits, which is currently being tested in a small number ... Read More

Kohlieber LLC announces Cribyo.com Social Networking Portal has removed the membership fee and is joining the ranks of Free membership Social Networking sites. Larry Kohlieber, Owner of Kohlieber LLC and the Website Cribyo.com stated that the model is still in place to provide a college scholarship and donate to a Pet Rescue Organization once the site generates ad revenues to cover admin, management and operational fees. Cribyo.com will still allow users to be totally private, or open up to groups, friends or global visibility. Cribyo offer members unique features like a music player, photo directory, chat, magazine, forums and message posts that will provide users content within the portal space. Larry stated “The premise of Cribyo ... Read More