New social networks

New intersting social networks:

• PeopleJam - The site will connect users with "life coaches" in areas like health and fitness, relationship, finance, career, and spirituality.
• PMbuzz - Social networking site informs entertainers, clubs, promoters, DJ's, and club-goers of the New York night scene. Subsequent roll-outs are planned in other major U.S. markets over the coming months.
• BigLickU - The social network targets the 50,000 students attending the Roanoke-Blacksburg area colleges, like Radford and Virginia Tech, and is the first attempt by a large metropolitan newspaper to reach into the college market. The site hopes to increase registered users from the current 960 to at least 5,000 by early 2008.
• Zivity - Social network aiming to be a user-generated Playboy Magazine online

Social networking to drive mobile broadband

Social networking, dating and user-generated content sites will push mobile broadband above a billion users worldwide by 2012, Juniper Research has said in a report.
Indeed, the number of people using mobile social networking sites alone will jump from 14 million in 2007 to 600 million in five years, Juniper predicted in its report, "User-Generated Content: Social Networking, Dating and Personal Content Delivery".
Revenues generated from delivering access to dating, social networking and other personal content sites will jump from $527 million this year to over $5.7 billion in 2012. While mobile dating and chatrooms make up 57 per cent of current user-generated revenues, that will fall to 21 per cent by 2012 - and be overtaken by social networking sites, which will rise to over half of generated revenue.

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Simulated online dating offers insight into real-life relationships

Psychologists at the University of Illinois have explored how people manage romantic ties by looking at the choices that people make in simulated online dating relationship.
The online study took participants through a series of scenarios about a relationship with a fictional partner. Each scenario ended with two options, from which the participant chose his or her response.
The researchers found that a participant’s attachment style was a good predictor of the pattern of his or her choices. “People who are highly insecure are more likely to interpret their partners’ actions in a negative way and then choose to respond in kind,” said Vicary, adding that the more secure individuals more often chose the positive, relationship-enhancing options.

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Nokia launches mobile social network - MOSH by Nokia!

While all the big carriers are working hard to get existing social networks ported to play nice on their networks and handsets, Nokia seems to be taking a completely different approach. They’ve launched the first-ever social network launched by a handset maker - and who better to do it than the the most prolific mobile phone manufacturer on the planet? MOSH by Nokia aims to bridge the gap between the mobile and desktop social networking with their cross-platform design - upload, share, collect, or download various media from your mobile phone as well as your desktop (or laptop).
Recently I hear more and more about new Cross-platform social networks and dating sites - some of them such as MOSH are new and some are well known such as Myspace an Match.
Though mobile social networks are in their early stage and and their usage is still far behind the Internet we are working on exposing Copenda to mobile users. Copenda will enable people to search for friends or their next date directly from their mobile. The results will come from these cross platform social networks and dating sites.

Virtual World Hangouts: So Many To Choose From

The avatars roaming many online virtual communities may be cartoonish and their activities inconsequential, but the recent sale of Club Penguin to Disney for $350 million (with $350 million in earn out) demonstrates that the business of casual immersive worlds, or virtual hangouts, is not entirely child’s play.
Virtual hangouts are where people can engage each other using imaginary characters in imaginary environments. They have been around and popular in Europe and Asia for years. However, they appear to be gaining traction in the United States as of late. Some commentators even believe that the type of experience provided by these destinations could very well become integral to the forthcoming Web 3.0 era.

With so many virtual worlds , The problem is finding your friends or people with similar interests , Copenda will help you do that!!!

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Match.com expands mobile online dating service

Online dating service Match.com recently lunched a new application for cell phones, allowing subscribers to keep track of their paramours while on the go.
MatchMobile will first be made available in the United States, UK and Canadian markets, with plans to extend the service to nine more countries by the end of the year.
The service provides subscribers with text messages to their phones when they have an e-mail from another Match.com subscriber and allows them to search for potential matches from their cell phones.
For an extra fee of about $5 per month, MatchMobile subscribers can receive and answer e-mails from suitors on their mobile phones.
About 3.6 million U.S. cell phones subscribers used a mobile dating service in May this year, according to data from tracking firm M:Metrics that was provided by Match.com. The company also cited forecasts from Frost & Sullivan, which predict that revenue from mobile dating services will grow to $215 million by 2009.

We are really happy that large dating sits and social networks are lunching mobile applications , It will help us when we lunch Copenda Mobile.

Source: Reuters

Kingdom Of The Online Cupids

Millions of people use the Internet to find love. Whether searching for a mate for life or just one night, they are fuelling an industry that rakes in $700-million annually in North America, and is seeing a continuous stream of new players.
Canadian companies -- from Lavalife to plentyoffish.com -- have made a huge mark in this space. Some would argue Canada is the capital of the online dating business, with many of the leading trends in the industry taking shape here first.
The Canadian dating site making the biggest splash at the moment is Plentyoffish.com. The founder and sole operator, 29-year-old Markus Frind, runs the site from his West Vancouver apartment. He hit the jackpot by making his site completely free. Started in 2003, it is now the third-most popular dating site in North America, according to Web traffic tracker Hitwise. The site pulls in more than US$5-million a year from text ads that appear beside user profiles.
Another Canadian dating site attracting its share of attention is Toronto-based Ashley Madison Agency. The site delivers
its customers a dating pool filled with people all looking for the same thing: a relationship outside of the one they are already in. The site's motto is "When monogamy becomes monotony."
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