OnlineCouples.com, is an online community for couples who found their beginnings on a dating website, in a chatroom, or any other online medium. Moreover, the portal is founded by an online couple themselves - Abby Tankenoff and Santiago Merea who met through eHarmony, an online dating site. OnlineCouples.com, not to be confused with any dating site is an online community for couples who found their beginnings on a dating website, chatroom, or any other online medium. Here you can meet other couples using social networking features like chat, message, bookmarks, blog etc. On a second thought, the portal is an example how people from different streams and professions are attracting towards the dot com sector obviously when creators of respective online entity are mentioned in their press releases they don't mean it literally when it comes to technically developing and designing it, what they really mean is their strong willingness to show that are also wants to be part of ever growing social media/ networking phenomena.

NearbySocial is new Facebook download application via one can track other people using facebook nearby him or her and here 'nearby' means geographical proximity for e.g. in cafeteria, in college library or in office premise. Its actually a software application that uses the ubiquitous Wi-Fi signal and show profiles of interesting nearby Facebook users, apparently in real time. Once you keep Nearby Social running all day and it will also allow you a summary view on people seen in the Nearby Social Facebook Application. In its own term the application can be described as - "bridging online social network plethora with presence to create serendipitous face-to-face encounters". By using the NearbySocial app one can see and get notified of near by Facebook users, get their current location and chat with emoticons. The downloadable app provide full support to Windows XP and Vista clients and moreover also anticipating different smart-phones porting to platforms like iPhone and Windows Mobile. View more presentations from shellylennon.

FamilyLink. com a Provo, Utah based family-centered social networking company has raised $2.85 million in Series B funding the company has previously raised its initial round of funding of $1.25 million in August 2007. Several Series A investors joined the Series B funding round, including vSpring Capital and TTP Capital Advisors of Japan the company employs 30 people in the US, and has development offices in India and the Philippines. The company has multi-projects in its bag centered around family-tree and finding ancestors' history. The interesting one is - 'How to use Google more effectively as a genealogy research tool' with a 352 page book written by genealogy and technology expert, Dan Lynch. It is said that Google's indexes more than 20 billion pages of the Web and it's likely that some of these pages contain clues about anyone's ancestors. Apart from FamilyLink.com the company has other such services as - Genseek, WorldVitalRecords.com, WebTree, Worldhistory.com and family-tree and genealogy based application at major social networking portal such as Facebook (We Are Related), MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, and Friendster. As per the December 2008 Quantcast statistics, the company ranked among the top 500 web companies world and giving a stiff comptetion to other portals in its ...

Social networking which is integral part of web 2.0 wave, as users have much more participation level in this domain along with networking that lure them more than anything. When talking about this, names that appears in anyone's' mind are Facebook, Orkut or MySpace leaders in social networking and all of them have big names, brand and most importantly money to pay to their developers, visualizers etc. however today one can find plenty of scripts to make their own facebook clones or myspace kinda network. In India Agriya Infoway a chennai based web solution company provide ready made social network software called Kootali with a price tag of $247 and contains all the features you would expect in a professional social network package, friends, albums, sending messages, groups, events and more. Interestingly the company also provides other scripts as well such as social bookmarking script, video sharing software. In a similar fashion another chennai based company i-netsolution provide commercial PHP based Orkut Clone with similar layout/ look-n-feel as Orkut is having along with admin interface so any amateur HTML developer can run it likewise to blogging software, watch the user view of same here. iScripts.com is providing an another PHP based open source ...

IDNTITI is a community rating tool from a San Jose, CA based company providing Reputation & Identity related information about any entity in a clean and crisp quantitative manner. The tool allows you to rate any Person, Company, Product/Service (launching shortly), etc., that user have been associated with and have an opinion on. Entities currently rated on the site include Google, HP, Intel, Infosys and currenttly infamous Satyam Computers and other companies, schools and colleges from India along with US, Japan, Germany, UK etc.The site also allows users to sign-in through open-ID or Google/Yahoo/Facebook/ AOL login IDs Users can contribute the parameters being rated. The parameters are rated on a 0 to 10 scale. Semantic analytics can be easily done in a single click. No text based review is allowed, thus helping readers a quick understanding on the reputation of any entity. It's a way of looking at ratings in a social networking set-up. By becoming a member, user can invite his community to rate anything, look at their connected members ratings, filter data based on demographically similar people, re-compute score based on parameters that are important to each user. Therefore the rating is now customized and very relevant for every user.

SocialMedian, a Pune and New York based social news network has been acquired by XING, a global business & professional network, We have covered the review of SocialMedian in July this year when founder Jason Goldberg, the one who is also behind Jobster.com released SocialMedian in beta mode. Together, SocialMedian & XING will connect people with the people, information, and resources they need to get their jobs done, follow their interests, and pursue their passions. The entire socialmedian team will be joining XING as part of the acquisition. Jason will be relocating to Hamburg, where he will lead up a major new initiative for XING as VP of the XING Application Platform. In this new role, in addition to strengthening and enhancing the socialmedian service, Jason will also be responsible for managing global partnerships for application developers and content providers to connect with the XING network. In a press release, XING mentioned that it will continue to grow and enhance socialmedian as a standalone service. There will be no interruption for socialmedian users.

LifeSnapz enables people to capture and explore life events with photos, videos, timelines and maps, and share these events with friends, family and other trusted groups. With interactive LifeSnapz users can organize, manipulate, find and share their own life events within user defined groups with customizable timelines, interactive maps and tags. Nominated for Open Web awards, LifeSnapz have used almost every media type any user can ever captured their life events in. Users can use LifeSnapz as a Individual user or as a group, company, organization or institution to enable them to organize/ share their histories, events and memorable moments in interactive ways. LifeSnapz users can even share their photos and videos from third party site apart from their own computers and for this the website has chosen intelligently ace performers in both of these, Flickr & Picassa for photos and YouTube & Vimeo.com for videos. The website has also appreciatively taken a good care of privacy while sharing ones online content with any users or groups such as 'read-only' members who can view events in the group and add comments to events, but cannot edit events, add new events or invite other members to the group.

Woices.com stands for World voices, is an Internet start-up company that provides Location Based Audio Services along with GPS application for mobiles. Woices allows people to create, share and consume location based audio tag allowing people to do location based audio tagging. These audio tags are known here as echoes i.e. audio records which are linked to a very specific geographical location or real world object and here echoes are words, left by one person at some precise place, that can be later listened to by anyone, as if user who created it was still there. Echoes can be about anything one want, from history, art or curiosities to personal memories or advices. Woices.com describe itself to be provider of a new layer of oral information and calling it 'echoesphere' that would pull out those histories and pieces of information that is not possible to find in the tourist guides. Moreover, Woices is also on verge of launching it mobile application integrated with GPS, though the website do have mobile website at woices.mobi that allows users to search for information created by other users in form of echoes. Woices.com uses web services from geonames.org for geolocation based functionalities and has come with a ...

MyHeritage, an Israel based world’s most popular family tree driven social network has acquired Kindo.com who recently launched First Hindi Social Network in July this year. Kindo has been ramping up its popularity in family based social network also because of website language expansion. Kindo has just launched first social network connecting families from India in 'Hindi', after expansion of the portal in other languages as well. On other hand, MyHeritage has more than 25 million members worldwide and is known for its powerful technology that helps families research their history and stay connected, including Smart Matching and automatic photo tagging. The Kindo team’s experience in social networking will help MyHeritage realize its vision to be the Facebook for families. As part of this acquisition, MyHeritage will also establish new commercial operations in London. MyHeritage was founded by a team of people who combine their passion for family history with the development of innovative technology. It is now one of the world’s leading online networks for families, and the second largest family history website. MyHeritage is available in 25 languages and home to more than 25 million family members and 260 million profiles. The company is based in Bnei Atarot, near Tel Aviv, Israel.

Zahdoo has launched as first of an interesting concept website among social networking and cognitive websites that deals with people's daily activities on internet. The portal has been launched by Hyderabad & Atlanta based IT company at Web 2.0 Expo in NewYork. With context awareness, semantic linking and a range of planning and networking features, Zahdoo delivers an engaging and productive social experience to online users. The portal is an efforts towards everything at one place portal that would bind all the online activities such as social networking conversations, information search, content tagging, online planner, personal website, reminder & alert services, sharing pictures, audio/ video with your friends and semantic search along with auto content suggestions via semantic analysis. Zahdoo enhances social awareness and cognitive abilities by linking and processing users information, activities and relationships with social circles and external context and gain access to the most relevant information and intuitively understand and process the information in users' own context. The portal is in private beta for few months is probably to enhance the portal and could even inculcate more features when go public, moreover the site is more like flash driven site rather than user and search engine friendly XHTML. I would love ...