Wadja.com, a unique social network that uses labels to create people-to-topic connections, has integrated social news websites Digg and the popular Internet radio site for streaming music Last.FM allowing users to organize, archive and discuss social content in real-time. Wadja helps users make sense of various types of social services, by separating the noise and spam from the real signal. Creating a label takes seconds and allows a user to decide whether to enable or disable targeted ... Read More

Flipboard today announced it has acquired Ellerdale, the real-time Web intelligence company. The acquisition concurs with the launch of Flipboard, a social magazine designed for iPad, which provides a faster and more visually engaging way to discover, view and share content from social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Ellerdale, founded in 2008, has developed a Web Intelligence technology that applies semantic analysis to large, real-time data streams to extract relevant and ... Read More

Founded by Mike McCue, former CEO of Tellme, and Evan Doll, former senior iPhone engineer at Apple®, FlipboardTM began a quest today to transform how people discover and share content by combining the beauty and ease of print with the power of social media. Flipboard also announced the immediate availability of it?s Flipboard App for iPadTM, a social magazine that brings to life the stories, photos, news and updates being shared across Twitter and Facebook. Flipboard?s first public demo ... Read More

Mouse and Pen, a pro bono social media service, launched today to help organizations market themselves using emerging online strategies. According to a recent study*, only 41% of firms using social media vehicles said they have a strategic plan to guide their activity in that space. “It’s time for local organizations of all sizes, from sole proprietorships to large companies, to create strategies that engage their customers through social media,” said Scott Fuhr, owner of Mouse and ... Read More

The social media advertising technology provider ADTELLIGENCE GmbH has developed a search engine for Facebook posts. At facebook. adtelligence.de/en, any Internet user can search for and read comments that are publically posted on Facebook, without payment or registration. With more than 400 million active users, Facebook is one of the most prominent social networks in the world. The average Facebook user spends 40 minutes per day on the site – that’s a record. Interaction with ... Read More

Today HootSuite releases a significant update to the popular social media dashboard, including a complete interface refresh and features utilizing new HTML5 technology standards. Notable changes include multiple design themes, improvements to Facebook media publishing, and language localization. With the recent announcement of Google’s HTML5 site and many other brands including Apple on-board, HootSuite has made a substantial investment in this new technology standard. Using HTML5 ... Read More

Buddy Media, the leading Facebook Management System for the world’s largest brands and agencies, today introduced Buddy Media Platform +GLOBAL, a new add-on to the Buddy Media Platform. +GLOBAL is the first geo-targeted Facebook page management system that empowers global marketers to maintain a single, unified Facebook presence across multiple countries and languages. Of the nearly 500 million consumers that log on to Facebook each month, only 25 percent live in the United States, ... Read More

Formspring, the social network that lets you connect with the people you care about through conversational Q&A, today announced integrations with MySpace and WordPress. As of today, Formspring users will be able to share their Formspring answers on both platforms. These new integrations add to already available Formspring integrations with Facebook, Twitter, Blogger and Tumblr. Launched seven months ago, Formspring is already ranked the 63rd most visited website in the U.S. ... Read More

Tungle Corp., the company that makes scheduling meetings easy, has been named the official scheduling application of BlogWorld & New Media Expo, taking place October 14-16, 2010 in Las Vegas. The company also announced the release of its free WordPress and TypePad plug-ins for calendar publishing and integrated scheduling. WordPress and TypePad, with over 30 million blogs published on these platforms, have added Tungle.me to the widget selection, allowing users to integrate ... Read More

In a compelling interview between Brian Vaszily, author and founder of the popular personal growth website IntenseExperiences.com, and Dr. John Cacioppo, Director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, Dr. Cacioppo reveals how Facebook and other social media tend to make lonely people even lonelier. In the Loneliness Help interview, available to view in full on IntenseExperiences.com, Cacioppo notes that “what the research suggests is ... Read More

Google released the 1000 most-visited sites list on the web on May 28th. According to the list, Facebook sits on top with 540 million unique visitors, followed by yahoo.com, live.com. The list will be updated monthly and does not include adult sites, ad networks, domains that don’t have publicly visible content or don’t load properly, and certain Google sites. Google removes some of their own sites. Facebook, under Social Networks category, ranks number one of the list. ... Read More

Facebook today responded to user comments and concerns about privacy by announcing it will introduce simpler and more powerful controls for sharing personal information. New settings will give the more than 400 million people who use Facebook the power to control exactly who can see the information and content they share, all with just a few simple clicks. In addition, new settings will be added to make it easier to turn off third-party applications or websites. Facebook Founder and CEO ... Read More

The event is scheduled to take place Thursday, May 27th at Arena, located at 135 W. 41st (Broadway & 6th Ave). Doors will open at 5:30 with complimentary appetizers and drink specials available at the event. Represent your business among the hundreds of professionals from around New York City that have come together to relax, have fun and network with other local businesses with EMRG Media. It will be the happening place to be for business networking in New York City. The event is ... Read More

FaceTime Communications (www.facetime.com ) announced today that it has added social network compliance and feature controls for Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Designed to help organizations meet regulatory compliance, such as FINRA’s Regulatory Notice 10-06 and to aid in the prevention of accidental data leakage, the controls allow posts to be pre-approved, logged and archived or blocked if they do not meet company policy. Social media within the workplace now accounts for a ... Read More

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal judge to dismiss Facebook’s claims that criminal law is violated when its users opt for an add-on service that helps them aggregate their information from a variety of social networking sites. Power Ventures makes a web-based tool that users can set up to log into their multiple social networking accounts and aggregate messages, friend lists, and other data so they can see all the information in one place. In a lawsuit ... Read More