ZYB - the innovator of the ZYB Phonebook - today announced that it has acquired the Danish mobile social networking company, Imity, for an undisclosed sum. ZYB’s existing offering has enabled a quarter of a million users to securely store nearly 16 million contacts. ZYB is now in final development of the ZYB Phonebook, a next-generation solution for mobile-enhanced social networking that will integrate features of the Imity service.
Imity launched in 2007 and quickly established itself as a pioneer of real-life mobile social networking. Imity uses Bluetooth technology to enable …

Purplenova is a leader in providing innovative solutions for secure desktop content hosting. Traditional Web Servers are difficult (and sometimes impossible) to set up on home and office PCs. Secondly, commonly used techniques for making desktop content web-accessible, such as VPNs or Web-conferencing solutions do not lend themselves to Web 2.0 environments, where a simple mechanism to publish desktop content is required. Our patent pending technology provides a solution to both these problems by making it possible to securely and easily web-publish content directly from your PC.
With the Purplenova …

NEW YORK, NY, March 13, 2008 - AOL announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bebo (http://www.bebo.com), a leading global social media network. Together with its AIM and ICQ personal communications network, the acquisition will give AOL a premier position in the fast growing world of social media with a network of approximately 80 million unique users.
With a total membership of more than 40 million worldwide, Bebo is a global social media network which combines community, self-expression and entertainment to enable its users to consume, create, …

Facebook is the latest ‘hot’ thing in the Internet world. It’s a social networking site that is starting to rival the likes of MySpace and Friendster. While Facebook is a great way to interact with your friends, it’s also a top way to interact with business associates, customers and prospects. You can generate new leads to your business very quickly with Facebook.
The first thing you’d want to do is to gather all your business associates’ email information and add them to your friends list in Facebook. You can also add …

What is Facebook?
Facebook was started in 2004 by two students, as an online alternative to the traditional yearbook and it has quickly become a classic example of the latest online craze called social networking.
Currently, Facebook has an estimated 31 million subscribers from around the world and last year it turned down a US$2.3 billion offer to purchase from Google!
Negative influence of Facebook
The impact this seemingly innocuous site is having on South African businesses is growing. There are over 170,000 South Africans registered and Facebook is costing business owners time and …

If you are serious about your business and it’s online presence, then you have probably struggled with the issue of getting more customers. Finding ways that are easy, effective, and cost efficient can be hard. One way, to help your business to grow, is by advertising using Facebook.
Now, you may be thinking that Facebook was simply another one of those sites for youngsters. And in fact, you’d be partially right. Facebook, was actually created with the initial intention of allowing college students to swap photos and communicate with one another. …

It there is one thing that you can be sure of, it is the fact that Facebook is definitely not just for college students any more. Originally created so that college students could share photos and interact with one another online in much the same way that other social networking sites work, business owners with an online presence are now beginning to see the beauty of business marketing with Facebook for their bottom line.
For example, a business that is marketing with Facebook is able to promote itself in several ways. …

WALTHAM, Mass.— 13 Feb 2008— Novell today announced it has acquired SiteScape, a leader in open source team collaboration, extending Novell’s leadership in, and commitment to, innovative and open collaboration solutions. SiteScape, the founder of the ICEcore open source collaboration project, brings impressive team workspace and real-time collaboration capabilities to Novell – key components of a broad unified communications and collaboration strategy. The melding of the two firms creates the industry’s clear leader in open, enterprise-strength collaboration and …

In a Web 2.0 world, social marketing leverages your business with audio, video, and text. As an example, blogging may very well turn out to be one of the most ingenuous marketing strategies for anyone who has an online business and is willing to commit to its process.
Web 2.0 seems such an unlikely stratagem that many online marketers are still wary of using as a marketing tactic, much to their disadvantage. Statistics show that marketers who have embraced and adopted social marketing have experienced unprecedented success.
Here are three reasons why …

There’s a particular resource that any number of people in business overlook entirely. The resource is MySpace. MySpace, as most people are aware, is a social networking web site. The thinking about MySpace may tend to be that MySpace is a site for juveniles. The reality however is that MySpace has millions upon millions of members, and these members fall everywhere along the age line. Though many MySpace members may trend young, the notion that everyone on MySpace is a kid is just plain wrong.
If MySpace isn’t meant for the …