Daily Archives: August 3, 2009

A new service by Germany based startup SumtnSumtn puts Twitter-conversations on any website. SumtnSumtn allows to send tweets right from any website while surfing the web. All previously written Tweets on that page are shown in a simple threaded view. This makes discussing page-content “onsite“ possible and you get to meet interesting people along the way.

The startup, founded by three college-students in June 2009, creates more conversations and discussions among the visitors of a website. This happens directly onsite with the help of Twitters messaging-network. All tweets are aggregated into the SumtnSumtn-sidebar making content-related dialog possible. Users get to see what others tweeted about the page and can message them back. This way SumtnSumtn connects Twitterers with same interests, who wouldn’t have met otherwise.

Website-providers get more attention for their content and thus more traffic through Tweets and discussions in the Twitterverse. These messages also help positioning in “old-fashioned“ search engines as well as visibility in real-time search results.

This service requires no registration or installation. The SumtnSumtn-sidebar is simply launched by clicking a bookmarklet which you can drag into the bookmark-bar.

SumtnSumtn is now available to any internet user. Co-founder Tobias Anton (@tobias_a) points out: “We intentionally beta-tested with power-users of Twitter to get the best possible feedback. Feedback as ‘the tool is a necessity’ and ‘great idea for tweets from a webpage’ tell us, that we have created a useful application“.

Especially interesting for blog-owners and website-providers is the upcoming widget. The widget helps to create even more dialogue by offering the service to all of their visitors. “An average of 10 people clicked through to the website where the message was sent from in our private beta. This shows that our widget creates more traffic for the sites which will use it“, says co-founder Aike Sommer (@aikej).

The startup welcomes any sort of cooperation-request and interest of possible investors.

SumtnSumtns mission is to connect Twitterusers on websites and bring them together, to show them who else visits and tweets on the websites one likes, to help them make new friends.
Web: www.sumtnsumtn.com

Melbourne IT, a Top 5 global domain name registrar and the #1 digital brand management company worldwide, has been selected by social networking and micro blogging provider Twitter, to manage its domain name portfolio.
Twitter.com, the powerful communication platform that connects the world with information in real-time, continues to grow in popularity in both the consumer and corporate worlds, having evolved from a site where friends can stay connected and access information as it happens, to a key brand marketing tool.

“We are very pleased to be working with Twitter, as a rapidly growing company that has vastly extended the reach of social networking,” said Theo Hnarakis, CEO and Managing Director of Melbourne IT. “Companies with a significant Internet presence recognise the value Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services delivers, as a leading provider of digital brand management and protection services.”

According to a recent report from global information and media organisation The Nielson Company, unique visitors to twitter.com increased more than 10 fold year-on-year from 475,000 in February 2008 to 7 million in February 2009, making it the fastest growing site in the Member Communities category for the month.

Melbourne IT’s Corporate Domain Management solution allows companies to optimise and effectively manage their domain portfolios, enabling complete control of every aspect of domain name management, including Domain Name System (DNS) Management, to protect against infringement and malicious web attacks.

About Melbourne IT

Melbourne IT Limited (ASX:MLB) is a world leader in the supply of innovative and scalable online solutions, including digital brand management, critical hosting, messaging and collaboration and domain name management services to organisations of all sizes, from small businesses to major international enterprises globally. Melbourne IT was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1999 and has a network of 18 offices across 10 countries around the world.

www.melbourneitdbs.com

Underneath all the hype about Twitter, evidence is emerging that it can bring genuine value when used in the business environment, particularly for the younger generation. Business-to-business industry researcher AIIM found that 27% of 18-30 year-olds agree that Twitter is an important rapid-feedback tool for business use, compared to only 7% of those over 45. Users feel it gives them unprecedented access to answers from experts, and they find it useful for running mini polls, sharing opinions during conferences and events, and making contacts whilst travelling. In total, 34% of the survey population has a Twitter account.

The survey also found that business users of Twitter are much more engaged than personal users, with half of the business users actively contributing and posting, rather than merely following. As regards following, 55% of users feel it has given them a useful insight into other professional’s lives and businesses. However, even among committed users, there is a concern that Twitter might steal too much of their time, with 74% using it during working hours.

“We’ve been tracking the rapid growth of Enterprise 2.0 – the business use of social media – for a couple of years,” comments Atle Skjekkeland, VP of AIIM, “but Twitter has grown much faster than anything we’ve seen before. It seems to me that Twitter brings back such quick answers from any expert community that it cannot fail to have a lasting place within the general business toolbox.”

The AIIM survey, which polled 788 respondents, indicates that LinkedIn is twice as popular as Facebook for business networking, with over 50% of participants having an account. Two thirds feel that professional networking on the web is vital to their career progression – even more so in the current difficult times. Pressure is growing on IT departments to replicate social networking tools within the work environment, with a third expecting to use the same type of networking tools with their business colleagues as they do with friends and family, and 71% finding it easier to locate knowledge on the web than it is to find it on internal systems.

The AIIM research report is entitled “Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0: work meets play or the future of business?” Part of the AIIM Industry Watch series, the report is free to download from the AIIM website, www.aiim.org.uk. It is underwritten by Allyis, Ektron, EMC Corporation and Oracle.

About the research

The survey was taken by 789 individual members of the AIIM community between May 11th and May 26th, 2009, using a Web-based tool. Invitations to take the survey were sent via e-mail to a selection of the 65,000 community members.

About AIIM

AIIM (www.aiim.org.uk) is the community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organisations find, control, and optimise their information. For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organisation focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. Today, AIIM is international in scope, independent, implementation-focused, and, as the representative of the entire enterprise content management (ECM) industry -including users, suppliers, and the channel – acts as the industry’s intermediary.

About Allyis

Allyis views collaboration solutions as foundational platforms that are instrumental in supporting business operations. We work with clients to develop solutions that incorporate Enterprise 2.0 tools and technologies such as blogs, wikis, tagging and profiling to help drive collaboration, build community, foster knowledge-sharing, streamline work processes and empower decision making.

About Ektron

Founded in 1998, Ektron is committed to providing revolutionary, scalable Web content management and authoring solutions. From enterprise level deployments to single sites, CMS400.NET ships with a wide array of functionality, including social networking, Web 2.0, SEO and synchronization tools. Headquartered in Nashua, N.H., Ektron has more than 20,000 customer implementations worldwide, including LG, Sony and Johnson & Johnson. For more information, visit: www.ektron.com.

About EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organisations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. The EMC Documentum family of enterprise content management solutions provides a comprehensive, fully-unified software platform to manage and leverage content in a cost-effective, controlled manner, providing secured access and re-use across the enterprise.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

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WorldFriends Networks, one of the world’s leading international social networking services, today announced that it has launched Trips & Cities – a new feature that enables users to input and share their journeys, follow friends’ adventures and make new friends with people at past and future travel destinations.

In just 14 days after Trips & Cities was launched, WorldFriends users have already logged over 2,000 different trips, demonstrating how Trips & Cities opens up an exciting new dimension of utility and growth for WorldFriends.

Trips & Cities allows users to input their travel destinations and route onto an interactive map that can then be used to connect with friends, other travelers and locals interested in meeting up or sharing information about a particular site or region. The feature also includes new city pages for every city on the planet, allowing users to connect with local residents and other travelers in the region, solicit advice from previous travelers, and get the latest in local news.

In summary, Trips & Cities is a one-stop online solution for users’ social traveling frustrations. The feature, with its mapping application and city/regional pages, helps users connect with locals and learn about the hippest local spots and hangouts, arrange to meet up with friends and fellow travelers in the area, and when their trip is done, keep track of friends’ travels and immediately begin planning their own next adventure.

“Since WorldFriends’ inception, so many members have written thank you notes to WorldFriends for helping them find great new friends during travels to new places. With this new Trips feature, we make it easier than ever for both sides to meet. We’re very excited to see 2,000 trips in the first two weeks; this encourages us to keep expanding the travel dimension of WorldFriends,” said Dominic Penaloza, founder and CEO of WorldFriends.

About WorldFriends Networks

WorldFriends Networks is the world’s leading multi-lingual travel and language exchange community. WorldFriends Networks offers people a high quality environment in which to enjoy ‘internationally minded’ socializing, and to meet new friends with common interests, especially in the areas of travel, culture and language learning. WorldFriends Networks aims to promote global harmony by easing language barriers and culture barriers, resulting in greater cross-culture communication. Over 2 million people from 237 countries, including more than 130,000 language teachers, have registered as WorldFriends Networks members, and use WorldFriends Networks to meet new friends in cities they travel to, to find language exchange partners, penpals and teachers, and to meet other internationally-minded people. WorldFriends Networks already offers service in five languages: Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean.
For more information please visit http://www.worldfriendsnetworks.com/.

To experience Trips & Cities please visit http://www.worldfriends.tv/.

Starting today, Nintendo DSi™ owners have even more ways to share their experiences with friends and family. Using an Internet-connected Nintendo DSi system and the Nintendo DSi Camera application, Facebook members can take pictures with either of the system’s two cameras and upload their photos directly to their Facebook profile. This function will be available after 5 p.m. Pacific with a free downloadable system update.
While reviewing pictures they’ve stored in the Nintendo DSi Camera album, which includes photos taken by users and manipulated using the built-in interactive lenses, users can simply tap the Facebook icon on the system’s touch screen to instantly transmit photos to the user’s Facebook profile. The user’s system must be configured to a wireless broadband Internet connection for the transmission of photos.

“Facebook and Nintendo DSi build on the trend of personalization that is so important to consumers,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “We’re giving people the tools to express themselves in creative new ways and show off the results to their friends and family on Facebook.”

Nintendo DSi has sold more than 1.7 million units in the United States alone, according to the NPD Group. The third iteration of the world’s best-selling portable video game system includes photo- and voice-manipulation features that allow users to customize their experiences like never before.

Remember that Nintendo DSi features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other Nintendo DSi features such as the new integration with Facebook Connect technology, visit www.NintendoDSi.com.

About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo DSi™ systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 2.9 billion video games and more than 496 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company’s Web site at www.Nintendo.com.

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Nowadays social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn etc are receiving a lot of attention from the current generation as they allow them to create a profile, view others’ profiles, make contact with people around the globe, visit forums and build their own network based on a number of different criteria. You can now create a buzz like those social networking sites among people by starting a smart networking site using our iSocial application.
Although our Isocial team has developed the perfect script to launch a smart social networking site, some of our valuable customers have faced minor troubles when using the script. In order to help our customers, we have fixed the issues in the iSocial script in a fairly short period of time and released it as a brand new version named iSocial 1.0.5.
CSS will allow you to control over different elements like links in your website. In the new version of iSocial, our developers have fixed the CSS issue in both the member and admin side and help you save a lot of time, particularly when maintaining a large site.
We know that photo capturing is one of the favorite features of networking people but many competitors are failed to incorporate the feature currently. With our latest version of iSocial, you can use this opportunity to pull away users from your competitors’ site by offering photo capturing feature. iSocial in now integrated with one of our hot running scripts known as Mugshot, a photo capturing tool. Starting today, your users can capture pictures of themselves like a professional using their webcam and share them with their friends and family.
One of the main features in iSocial is the Facebook connect. In the previous version, some of our customers felt some difficulty while logging into the iSocial site using their Facebook account. From this moment, they can sign in the iSocial site smoothly using their Facebook account.
Also our developers have made a lot of changes in the admin and member side of iSocial and released it as a new version.
“We are very excited to release this new version to the marketing world. We hope this brand new version will turn our enquiries into sales” said Ms, Sheerin, the vice president of Agriya.
Agriya Infoway is a Chennai based Web Development Company that sells scripts that can be bought by webmasters to build sites under various categories. It is currently offering a new version of iSocial 1.0.5.