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CrowdPicks.Com, A Credibility-Based, Social Networking Site, Launches Beta OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Incubator company WSC Group, Inc., announces the launch of CrowdPicks.com beta. The launch features a first of its kind web-based application that allows members to search the CrowdPicks prediction database to create user defined, aggregate game score predictions. This application, called the CrowdFilter, allows members to create fully customizable searches using multiple variables. WSC Group was started by two former TD Ameritrade employees -- Jeff Murnane, Director of Competitive Intelligence and Cassius Almeida, Senior Product Manager. They were invited into the Scott Technology Incubator and Transfer Center, where they currently base their operations. "Having an innovative start-up like WSC Group provides students on campus the exposure to breaking technology as well as practical experience of working within an entrepreneurial organization" said Ken Moreano, Director of Scott Technology Center.
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"This analysis is consistent with the findings of a comScore study conducted last year, which showed that visitors to social networking sites are more receptive to online advertising for leisure-oriented retail categories," said comScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni. "There appears to be a natural synergy between the leisure categories and social networking sites. People typically enjoy sharing their experiences with these products, whether it's to talk about their new iPhone or the pair of designer jeans they just bought. Social networking sites offer the venue for those conversations to occur."
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- DEMOfall -- Wallop, a company spun out of Microsoft and backed by veteran venture capital firms, today launched its beta product, a breakthrough innovation in the social networking space with a unique business model. Wallop, an invitation-only network, for the first time combines a social networking site with a marketplace, enabling an entirely new way to self-express and enhance a person's increasingly important online image. Central to Wallop's business model will be Adobe(R) Flash developers and designers who will sell their personal creations on Wallop's marketplace. Now Flash experts, who have been responsible for many of the most innovative Web concepts, can make money doing what they love without any of the business hassle.
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SEATTLE, Nov 30, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — Onvia (Nasdaq: ONVI) today announced the addition of a new social networking feature through Onvia Business Builder. An embedded Personnel History Link provides users with access to social networking information so they can gain insight about government contacts within their agencies of interest. The social networking information includes government contract work history, education, current position and other business affiliations, leading to social networking opportunities and added insight about how to reach out to potential customers. Based on the networking concept that people can be connected through common associates and associations, via degrees of separation between contacts, the Personnel History Link strengthens Onvia Business Builder’s ability to provide comprehensive government business intelligence and data that surrounds public sector business opportunities.
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London -- Virtual communities and online social networking sites are providing a new, powerful and extremely popular medium for human connection. In a new report independent market analyst Datamonitor expects global active memberships in social networking sites to reach 230 million at the end of 2007. Notwithstanding the fact that many users have multiple memberships, this represents an extraordinary cultural trend. The report, “The Future of Social Networking: understandingmarket strategic and technological developments ”, says infrastructure providers, social network providers and wireless players stand to profit largely in the near term.
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For Virgin Mobile's engaged and youthful customer base, social networking is an area of strong and growing interest. In a proprietary survey among Virgin Mobile customers under the age of 35, 63% said they have a profile posted on one or more social networking sites. In querying the customers who use these sites, Virgin Mobile found that, while Facebook and MySpace are the most populated, 43% of respondents identify other sites as their favorites to visit -- with 16% naming Xanga and 5% specifically listing Blackplanet.com. Most, 92%, said they visit their favorite social networking sites at least once a day with one-third, 32%, spending between 15-30 minutes, and 14% on more than 90 minutes a day.
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