Tag: social network
Users of Bebo have sent their messages into space
Of all the people in the world you’d like to have communicating with alien leaders in a potential “first contact” scenario, would Bebo users really be the #1 choice? Well, that’s what’s happening, as the social networking site’s users’ suggestions for images and text to send into space as part of its ‘A Message From Earth’ project have been… sent into space.
501 messages from Bebo users – including photos of Richard and Judy and pop band McFly’s opinions on Cheryl Cole – were sent off from Ukraine’s National Space Agency yesterday in a fantastic waste of everyone’s time. Here’s Bebo’s sensational illustration of how sending messages into space works:
The messages will take a shade over 20 years…
REVIEW: Raptr – A social network for gamers
Raptr is a new social network that launched today which focuses on gamers. I’ve had a quick play around with it, and I’m actually very impressed. The services tracks your Xbox Live, PS3 and Wii gaming, as well as Steam, Guitar Hero, XFire, and World of Warcraft on the PC. When someone in your friends list starts a game on any of those services, an alert pops up and you can jump right in and join them…
MySpace.com users to get free The Cloud Wi-Fi access across UK
MySpace.com users can now gain free access to over 7,000 Wi-Fi hotspots courtesy of The Cloud, thanks to a deal announced today.
When users connect to one of The Cloud’s wireless locations via their mobile device, they’ll be greeted with MySpace branding and multimedia content on the landing page. Presumably if they’ve not paid for access to the rest of the Internet, or have an iPhone, that’s as far as they’ll get…
Nokia buys Plazes location-aware social network
Nokia has bought the German web startup Plazes, a location-aware social network which lets users find out where their friends are and what they’re doing — a sort of “Twitter meets Google Maps” mashup.
It’s not yet known exactly how much Nokia paid for the service, or what they intend to do with it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes a part of Nokia’s Ovi service, pushing the company further into mobile services as well as simply making handsets…
CloudTrade launches beta music sharing service for smartphones
CloudTrade. the social network which allows people to share video and music content online and potentially rack up points for popular content and interacting with advertisers, has announced its beta music sharing service, currently offering around 250 music tracks from the two record labels it has signed up.
It’s another service offering free content in exchange for watching ads, and is being targeted at the younger generation who typically have a lot of time and interest in new music, but no money…
Check out MyNuts
That joke will never get tired. Never!
Lowest common denominator idiot magazine Nuts has made its social networking site MyNuts live, after an apparently successful month-long beta trial. At the moment, it seems to be a way for slightly odd-looking women from small towns to show strange men in baseball caps photographs of their bodies via the internet. Awesome.
Here’s how Nuts describes its venture…
50 Cent launches his own social network :(
If you can’t get enough of the irritating rapper, you can now get MORE of the irritating rapper – by joining his social networking site ThisIs50.com.
The site fits in with the MySpace design ethic – it’s right old a mess. Loads of embedded videos and music players all battle for your attention, among numerous messages about the exciting solo projects…
Facebook hacker looks through Paris Hilton's private pics, miraculously escapes untraumatized
Pictures of Paris Hilton ‘enjoying’ a post-Emmy ‘party’ with her superbly named bro, Barron, have been leaked from her private Facebook account after holes in the site’s recent security upgrade were exploited.
"No more social networks!" cry those with the cash
It seems that every other day there’s a new social network — or at least, new to me — and I’m left wondering just how many more social networks the world can cope with.
Seems like those with a lot of money (i.e. not me) to invest in such businesses agree, if the consensus at the Dow Jones Web Ventures conference this week is anything to go by…
Tonium launches Pacemaker DJ mix portal
Sorry, the elusive Pacemaker portable DJ gadget isn’t here yet, but an online DJ portal is. Coupled with a free PC/Mac music / mixing editor, the web site allows you to create your own mixes and share them with the community.
Tonium has apparently done deals with a number of international music publishing houses, so the resulting service should be fairly watertight legally…
