If your New Year's Resolution is to start blogging, then Word Count Journal wants to help out. The newly-launched blogging platform lets you post one word on the first day, two words on the second day and so on, meaning that you'll have written 66,79...
Vidivodo Launches - Another new video sharing community launched on December 25th. Turkey-based Vidivodo is a decent attempt that includes tagging, customizable profile pages, an embeddable player and accounts for musicians and comedians. The player,...
Tubes is a new social sharing application that just went live today at TubesNow.com - it was originally at this URL during development. We're not big fans of downloadable apps, mainly because they clog up the test machines and because users tend to h...
We said 2007 would be the year of mobile, and it already is - Groovr is another new mobile social network that launched on December 29th. Like most mobile-specific sites, the Django-powered service is based around text messaging: you "check in" to a ...
ToolsToLife - This new social network for goal setting is trying to get some January 1st buzz. ToolsToLife users can create profiles, add friends, set goals, track their progress on charts, add photos, write a blog and ask questions. Worth it just fo...
PlaceBlogger, which launched yesterday, is a blog directory focused on certain places. It's not about news specifically ,the site says, but also about the experience of living in a certain place. You can find "hyperlocal" blogs, add blogs to the dire...
Update: The FT (German) reports that the price is 85 million Euros ($112 million), with about 50 million Euros being paid in cash. Mashable readers will know that StudiVZ, the German Facebook clone, has been the source of a great deal of controversy....
Those of you who have visited Mashable recently will know that the site has been "having a massage" - the stories we would have covered... Sell Your Videos on AOL - Besides the revenue sharing offered by Metacafe, Revver, Guba and others, you can now...
The makers of the L-Word social network will be pleased to hear the results of a poll released on Tuesday by Harris Interactive and Witeck-Combs Communications (not publicly available). The poll shows that gay, lesbian and bisexual people use social ...
The Saddam execution video that we linked to last week is causing a great deal of tension - while the official video portrayed a calm and dignified atmosphere before the hanging (it had no audio), the raw cellphone footage painted a very different pi...
We promised that we'd never mention that annoying phrase "Web 2.0" on Mashable again - we lied. AdAge reports that the ill-defined phrase that tries to sum up the essence of the user-controlled web was the most-cited Wikipedia entry of 2006, presumab...
ShoutCentral, a clean but sparse social network that we previewed on Mashable back in July, is up for sale on eBay today. The site was custom built using PHP and AJAX on a MySQL backend, and they're reporting 1000 users so far. ShoutCentral users hav...
Yoni Avital, founder of the Los Angeles-based dating site Match Activity, informed us today that the company has received angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels group. TCA's Mike Napoli led the round, while the firm has also added Dave Nielsen, a f...
We've said before that 2007 may be a troubled year for those video sharing sites that find themselves competing with YouTube. Following the departure of Guba's co-founder and CEO, Thomas McInerney, last week, another two executives are jumping ship. ...
Time to add USuggest to our list of social sites that pay. The service, which launched yesterday, makes it easy (in theory) to earn money from affiliate links. After signing up for an account, you can search the database of 2 million products from mo...
DOPA Dead - Remember the Deleting Online Predators Act, which threatened to ban minors from accessing social networks in US schools and libraries? The problem with the bill wasn't so much the plan to block MySpace (although many were opposed to that)...
A court in Brazil has ordered that YouTube should be shut down until the site removes a celebrity sex video. The clip shows Daniela Cicarelli, a model and ex-wife of Ronaldo, having sex with her boyfriend on a beach, and it quickly became popular on ...
Moms are going to have a lot of options when it comes to networking on the web. Today MomJunction, yet another new player, announced that it has raised $1.5 million in first round funding. Investors include PointRoll CEO Christopher Saridakis and fou...
An unexpected move from LinkedIn: they've launched LinkedIn Answers today, a service similar to Yahoo Answers that lets you ask questions to members of your network. You enter your question, pick the members of your network who are likely to know the...
The folks at Traineo just let us know that they've partnered with Meebo around the MeeboMe widget, which puts IM on social networking pages and blogs. Traineo, a fitness community we've covered in the past, now lets you post a MeeboMe widget on your ...
YouTube may have won the video-sharing crown, but that hasn't stopped the money from flowing into the video space. vMix, which launched way back in October 2005, has received a second round of funding, according to reports today. The undisclosed amou...
The creator of the Slideroll slideshows tool has just launched something very cool: Sploder allows you to build your own custom Flash games and post them to MySpace, Xanga, hi5, Piczo and the rest. It's your typical action game, with a spaceship, mis...
Is it me, or is it getting a bit gay in here? Following the news earlier this week that gay, lesbian and bisexual people are some of the most active users of social networks, we've been notified of four - yep, four - GLB social sites are expected to ...
Looks like marketers are starting to toy with the idea of MySpace codes: Condé Nast is now launching a two-month long promotional campaign for Brides.com based around a MySpace page and embeddable widgets. They're offering two add-ons for your profil...
A study of the personal data posted by MySpace teens is getting some interest today, since it seems to show that MySpacers are more privacy-conscious that the newspaper scare-stories usually assume. The research by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Cla...
There are widespread reports today (although annoyingly, few sources) that YouTube has been blocked in Brazil following the court order earlier this week. Model Daniela Cicarelli, you'll remember, demanded over $100,000 in damages for every day her s...
We covered the news just before New Year that the social bookmarking site RawSugar is attempting to sell its assets - the site may be taken down within a few months. Today Otis Gospodnetic, the founder of the bookmarking site Simpy, informed us that ...
Our hypothetical MySpace Store has yet to materialize, but Bebo has made a step towards the sale of retail items through the launch of a Bebo bookstore, seemingly called "Bebo Authors". You get the sense that Bebo is just dipping a toe into these wat...
The NYTimes mentioned this news briefly last week, and today we're expecting the announcement that the social search engine ChaCha has raised $6 million in a round led by Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment firm of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. R...
The social media-sharing site eSnips is announcing the launch of "MicroPortals" today at CES in Las Vegas. These are niche community pages on specific topics - remixing, the paranormal, spirituality, poetry, photography, painting, gifts, crafts, kara...
