There's long been talk of a mobile version of Bebo, the popular social network. Now it seems that Bebo Mobile is a step closer - mobile phone group O2 is in talks with the company, although discussions are still at the early stages. There were rumors...
Mashable's sponsors are almost certainly the best sponsors in the world - and some of them are even better than that. So once again it's time to say thanks to the people who keep the lights on around here. Pageflakes - I was dead wrong about Pageflak...
Toronto startup Nakama is another new media-sharing site for mobile phones - essentially a more mobile version of Webshots or YouTube. The service, which launched last week, supports mobile uploading of images and videos from your phone via a unique ...
UnFaced, a service that tracks visitors to your Facebook page, has received a cease and desist letter from Facebook - the founder's account has also been suspended. The action followed a profile of the service in school newspaper The Daily Texan last...
FiveLimes, a Canadian startup that will begin inviting users very soon, is a social bookmarking site for eco-friendly products. The launch of yet another social bookmarking service is usually welcomed by a yawn from bloggers, but FiveLimes is unique ...
MothersClick, which launches on October 17th, is a new social network for moms. It combines a bunch of separate social features - groups/forums, tagging, a question and answer service ala Yahoo Answers and blogs - all tied together with a nice design...
In another bamboozling move, MySpace has now blocked Stickam webcam codes. At the end of last week, the team reported that newly-created Stickam widgets wouldn't work on MySpace, and yesterday I was forwarded an email (thanks James) from Stickam that...
Facebook will have to pay a "break up" fee to Microsoft if it sells to another company, according to an article that will appear in Tuesday's NYPost. The clause was part of the Microsoft-Facebook ad deal struck back in August, following a similar dea...
Fox expanded its Fox on Demand service today, offering streaming versions of Fox shows through MySpace and the websites of local Fox TV stations. The shows are ad-supported and you'll need to download the Fox Full Throttle Player to view them - this ...
Google just announced that Google Gadgets, which were previously for use on the Google Personalized Homepage and Google Desktop, can now be embedded on your own webpage. The new "Universal Gadgets" include Google Maps, Google Calendar, a date widget,...
OrganizedWisdom, which launches officially today, is a new social network for health information. The site was co-founded by Steven Krein, who took his Internet marketing firm Promotions.com to an IPO in 1999, followed by a sale to iVillage. The site...
The only way for avatar-based services to survive is to gain distribution with as many social platforms as possible. As a result, your WeeMee is now available on AIM, and Sitepal are trying to push their talking characters for use on MySpace and blog...
FilmLoop, the downloadable application that makes slideshows to share on your desktop, blogs, MySpace and eBay, is set to launch a 2.0 version later this month. The new stuff is very impressive, but you may have to wait until launch day to try it out...
TheHub, WalMart's ill-fated attempt at building a social network for kool kidz who just happen to like shopping at Walmart, has gone offline. The site, which was up for 10 weeks, tried to keep content wholesome, and featured profiles and videos from ...
Since I gave coverage to Trakzor's relaunch, it's worth mentioning that StatSync, a new MySpace tracker, launched at the end of September. Like Trakzor, and the Facebook equivalent UnFaced (which Facebook is trying to put a stop to), StatSync tracks ...
NoteCentric is a new service for university students that helps you to collaborate on school notes. Only members with a .edu email address can sign up, but there's a demo account for testing. Launched in a very basic form 5 weeks ago, it's a one-man ...
Bebo has been picking up steam in the UK market, overtaking MySpace earlier this year (see MySpace vs Bebo). Now the stat-reporting company Hitwise has released stats to show that the social network is gaining rapidly on eBay in terms of search volum...
Google Groups is one of those dated social sites that many of us have forgotten about as the social networking trend takes hold. Nonetheless, the site has stuck around, and a new beta version was released today at groups-beta.google.com. The new stuf...
Fotolog, the photo-sharing site that's popular in Latin America, announced today that they've raised $4 million in third round funding BV Capital and 3i - the total raised is now $12 million. With only 4 million users joining over a period of 4 years...
Aussie social network Babbello , which launched 11 months ago, announced today that it has reached 30,000 members. But for those who are used to seeing venture-backed startups like Tagworld add millions of users within the same time frame (and still ...
LonelyBloggers, which went live last week but is still undergoing heavily development, is a dating service for bloggers. The idea is that you can connect your profile page with your blog, Facebook, MySpace and Friendster accounts, or create a blog on...
YouTube just went down for a few hours for a feature upgrade - when it came back up a few minutes ago, the most obvious new feature is QuickLists. By clicking the "+" button on any thumbnail, you can instantly add it to your list. This seems to be st...
Viacom has ruled itself out of the bidding for Facebook, America's number two social network, while admitting that YouTube is on to a good thing. During a TV interview with Charlie Rose, Chairman Sumner Redstone said "We would not consider Facebook, ...
ImageLooop is a slideshow provider with a product almost identical to Slide.com, MySpace slideshows, RockYou and FilmLoop. Today they tried to step up their efforts by announcing a "MySpace Layout Auto-Embed API". The idea is that users can visit you...
Despite public perception, most MySpace users are over 35, according to a release today by ComScore. The stat-tracking company says that as MySpace continues to grow, its user base is skewing older - teens accounted for around 25% of users in August ...
Brad Greenspan, the founder of MySpace's parent company Intermix, claimed today that Intermix's sale of MySpace to News Corp defrauded shareholders out of tens of billions of dollars. He also claims it's "one of the largest merger and acquisition sca...
Mobunga, which launches today in public beta, is a guide to video downloads for the iPod, PSP and mobile phones. But this isn't the YouTube of mobile video - Mobunga doesn't host or let you play videos, but rather provides a directory of videos hoste...
PollDaddy, which launched today, is an extremely slick-looking site that provides polling widgets for blogs (although the girl in the screenshot is kinda scary). Using the AJAXy interface, you can add questions and answers and drag the answers to dif...
Technorati, the blog search engine, has joined Rennetto, lonelygirl15 and the Rocketboom folks by launching a video blog. The Technorati Daily Vlog will round up the "hot blogs, videos, photos, and games" of the last 25 hours. Unfortunately, they're ...
WriteToMyBlog is a neat little tool that's suddenly getting a lot of attention. Simply designed and intuitive, the service lets you create a post using the rich-text interface and post to multiple blogs or view and edit previous posts. Just write you...
