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Vodafone UK offers “free Facebook” for customers

March 27, 2023 By Andy Merrett Leave a Comment

vodafone_logoWell isn’t Vodafone the friendly mobile phone operator at the moment? Not content with slashing mobile roaming rates (forget the fact that they’re unfair and should never have been so exorbitantly high in the first place) and offering up Twitter love to its customers, it’s now announced a week of free Facebook access for its users.

Yes, from Friday 24th July, for one week only, those with funky cell phones capable of viewing the web (the Nokia N97 for example) will be able to surf the social network for nothing.

Presumably, the hope is that you get so hooked that, when it stops being free, you’ll carry on and pay Voda’s data rates for the privilege. [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 22, 2009 @ 7:20 am

Filed Under: Facebook, Mobile Tagged With: Facebook, free, mobile web, Social Network, vodafone

Ning Valued at $750 Million

March 27, 2023 By Mike Abundo Leave a Comment

Social networks are hot. People like to connect, and marketers could potentially make a killing with access to your social graph. Facebook alone is currently valued at $6.5 billion. Even Google’s getting in on the action through Google Friend Connect.

Imagine, then, the value of a service to create your own social networks. Ning, the hosted social network solution from browser inventor Marc Andreessen, just raised $15 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners. This latest investment round values the startup at — get this — $750 million. That’s pretty good for a freemium service without its own advertising platform, especially since only three percent of its network creators actually pay for ad-free service.

Free self-hosted social networking scripts abound on the Internet, but the average community leader has neither the time nor the patience to install and maintain such scripts. Ning could do for social networks what Blogger once did for blogs — idiotproof them for the masses.

Originally posted on July 22, 2009 @ 5:46 am

Filed Under: Investment, Social Network, Venture Capital Tagged With: Gina Bianchini, Investment, Litespeed Venture Partners, Marc Andreessen, ning, Social Network, Venture Capital

Shozu lowering cost of mobile multimedia sharing

March 27, 2023 By Andy Merrett Leave a Comment

shozu-swirlShozu, which connects mobile users with various social and media networks, has announced a partnership with MAXroam that will allow users to send multimedia files for much lower cost across 139 countries.

Initially marketed to iPhone users, who can download the ShoZu app for $4.99, the application will also be rolled out across Windows Marketplace, Ovi, and the BlackBerry App World (no Android Marketplace?).

With the app comes a coupon code offering them a $4.99 credit on a MAXroam account. [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 23, 2009 @ 10:43 am

Filed Under: iPhone, Mobile, Social Network Tagged With: maxroam, Mobile, Multimedia, shozu, Social Network

ZooLoo.com: online life management site goes live

March 27, 2023 By Andy Merrett 1 Comment

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Online life management? I wouldn’t mind some of that, and newly open-to-the-public ZooLoo.com could be a solution.

Firstly, if you’re so inclined, you can host your life using ZooLoo’s services and your own domain name, making it more personal than using some-non-descript-name.forgettable-web-service.com.

Features? [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 8, 2009 @ 11:04 am

Filed Under: Social Network Tagged With: management, online tools, organization, social media, Social Network, start page, zooloo

Facebook hits 250m users, Zuckerberg celebrates

March 27, 2023 By Andy Merrett Leave a Comment

Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is celebrating the 250 millionth person joining.

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No prizes a la download milestones at the Apple App Store, just a warm fuzzy feeling for the anonymous person that joined sometime yesterday that they’ve contributed to a social networking phenomenon. Or something like that. [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 16, 2009 @ 5:49 am

Filed Under: Facebook, Social Network Tagged With: Facebook, mark zuckerberg, members, milestone, Social Network

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