Tag: Social networking
Red Square vodka encourages you to go clubbing, creates social networking site Reloaded
Gosh, it appears alcohol manufacturers have realised that the internet isn’t just a fad that’s going to disappear overnight, and are starting to harness all the online world has to offer.
Red Square vodka is the latest company to boot up their computers, perhaps realising that now Summer’s well and truly behind us, we’re more likely to be sitting at home infront of our PCs rather than out in Ibiza clubbing the night away. They’ve launched a ‘World Party Weekenders’ site to entertain all…
Bebo and Ministry of Sound team up for a remixing competition, tempt thousands of underagers into their clubs
Admit the truth – you used to be a Ministry of Sound fan, if not a Ministry of Sound club-goer. I’m happy to admit to the embarassing truth, many years back when I was a 15-year old anglophile living in Australia, I loved nothing more than scouring their magazines, dreaming of their amazing club nights.
And then I moved to London and discovered they’re shite. Whoops. That hasn’t stopped Bebo from targeting other 5-year olds with the temptations of MoS clubbing and probable-illicit drug usage, as they’ve just signed a big deal with each other allowing kiddywinks on Bebo to upload their own dance mixes.
Using…
eBay launches social-networking site, eBay Neighborhoods, about two years too late
eBay aren’t making any money from Skype these days, so have obviously had a few long nights sitting at the drawing board, thinking of new ways to conjure cash out of thin air. And what have they come up? Yet another social networking site. Zzzzzzzz…
eBay Neighborhoods features around 600 online communities, for people passionate about buying and selling specific products on the auction site. There’s message boards, product reviews, photos and social mapping…
Top 20 ways to embarrass yourself on Bebo, Facebook or MySpace
It’s a hard life being a British tennis player. You’re constantly being compared unflatteringly to Tim Henman, you have to schlep around the world’s minor tournaments before going out in the first round at Wimbledon, and worst of all, you can’t boast about your burger and cider habits on Bebo without getting suspended by the Lawn Tennis Association. Harumph.
However, it’s not just tennis pros who are getting caught out. Social networks are meant to bring us closer together – which they do – but they’re also a minefield of potential shame and embarrassment. Here’s 20 more ways you can come a cropper – you get a prize if you’ve done more than ten of ’em.
1. Get dropped by your hard-partying kebab-munching friends when they read your Bebo profile and realise you’re really a teetotal fitness-focused tennis professional.
2. Reveal yourself as a two-faced hypocrite by praising both pirates AND ninjas on your Facebook profile. For shame.
Yahoo Mash: late to the social network party, mashes up popular services into its own
Yahoo has decided, arguably a few years late, that it wants to get into the social networking game, by launching Mash. It mixes various popular elements from the most well-known social sites, including adding customised backgrounds and colour schemes, but…
Facebooking employees could be costing companies £130m a day
The rise in popularity of social networking sites, with Facebook being the scapegoat, could be costing British business at least £130m each day in lost productivity due to employees surfing these sites during the working day. That's according to a…
Shopping social networking site OSOYOU launches in beta
Surely some girls read Tech Digest, right? You’re not all hovering around Shiny Shiny getting your fix of all things pink and fluffy, are you? So hopefully there’s some of you who’ll be interested to hear that OSOYOU, the sparkly new social networking site we happen to share an office with here at Shiny Towers, just launched in beta yesterday.
Allowing you to create user profiles, drag and drop items to your wishlist using their super-cool clothes hanger, bookmark…
Friends Reunited adds video feature: too little too late?
Remember Friends Reunited? Course you do (assuming you’re a Brit) – it’s the site you used to use to see what old schoolfriends were up to, in the days before MySpace and Facebook. Despite its sale to ITV for £120m in 2005, its thunder has since been stolen by those newer social networking sites.
Carlsberg-backed Tuborg beer opens music social-networking site
Stop salivating over that little .jpeg of the Tuborg beer on the left there, it’s not even 11am. You have to wait another hour before you can start fantasising over beer. After all, it’s only Tuesday.
Apparently the Carlsberg-owned beer brand Turborg has just launched a music-based networking portal which may just give MySpace a run for its money. Targeting 18-25 year olds, the site gives users information about bands touring around the UK, and even reviews written by some of the best music journalists in the industry….
US intelligence agencies need social networks too…
Last week we had the Facebook of porn, now we’ve got the Facebook of Spies, thanks to the US intelligence service launching its own in-house personal networking tool.
The new thing, called A-Space, is designed to help internal agencies…
