StudiVZ and Facebook

StudiVZ and Facebook have reached an agreement in the case of alleged plagiarism, with the German operator of social networking and cooperation Zuckerberg pay an undisclosed sum as part of the agreement. The two companies will withdraw their respective claims in the United States and Germany and continue as before (statement in German). StudiVZ and Facebook have agreed not to disclose details of the agreement.

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Hyperlocal - informative Articles business directory

Informative Articles hyperlocal business directory has grown as a network and online directory business for traders in small towns from advertising to consumers. Hard news has long been the specificity of your site in the way of merchants catering to the consumer, such as sites like Yelp and CitySearch do. Today, the house has introduced two features to attract consumers, neighbors and responses.

Informative articles provide small businesses with a list of sites, blogs and email newsletter application, and a local social network that focuses on connecting local businesses with others. Since its launch in 2006, informative articles drew nearly one million small businesses to participate each day in the hyperlocal site in areas of the United States with neighbors and meet MechantCircle trying to appeal to the side of consumers by creating conversations between consumers and local merchants.

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BloggersBase

BloggersBase expected to monetize their platform, offering a premium user generated content discovery and delivery platform for media companies to help select and organize content citizen journalist. For example, The Jerusalem Post is using the technology to a contest BloggerBase UGC.

In theory, the idea of BloggersBase, especially when it comes to their white-label offering is attractive. There is certainly a need for a mechanism by which to sift through the millions of blogs in the blogosphere.

But the biggest challenge for BloggersBase is the ability to attract sustained attention from blogs and readers. Without compelling content, the site does not attract engaged readers. Naturally, with the popularity of media companies incorporating UGC into their new platforms, such as CNN's iReport, BloggersBase may provide media companies with another way to sort the contents.

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Rollgator

Offers an interesting Rollgator could be very attractive for companies and organizations. The online service creates fullscreen Tickers RSS feed up to four channels. These complete listing screen has been optimized for large screens, including computer monitors, flat screen televisions and walls or even projectors. Rollgator could be a good choice for offices, events or stores to show news related to employees and customers. Obviously also be used in computer systems that could only be interesting to follow the news without being on the team all the time.

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Mugasha

Need background music for your next party? Some sets of long drive Mugasha Stream music and concentrate on enjoy the game instead of working on the perfect playlist.

Catalogs Mugasha long-play sets from electronica DJs prominent. Unlike some music-sharing services where you have to choose through songs and create playlists of their own teachers, Mugasha has already ordered sets of music for you.

You can search for songs and artists to play individual songs but the songs themselves are part of a larger whole. You can subscribe to the artists to keep abreast of when the release of new sets, share your favorite songs and games through social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and buy music when it is available on iTunes and Amazon . com.

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Panorama Capital raised 4.5 million dollars

Shop online and Vinfolio wine community site has raised 4.5 million dollars U.S. in the first round of financing led by Panorama Capital after receiving an undisclosed amount of angel investment front. San Francisco-based Vinfolio offers an integrated suite of services and resources to help mainly wine lovers and collectors buy, sell, manage and enjoy wine.

Vinfolio CEO Stephen J. Bachmann said the investment is mainly used to accelerate the growth of its market Vinfolio, an online platform for buying and selling wine currently has over 250,000 wines in competition, and expansion of home - running in Asia.

There is no shortage of web sites related to wine and services there. From the top of my head: service review sites and Corkd Snooth, Vinogusto, Wine.com old wine "discovery" Adegga, although I'm sure there are many more.

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BeamME Pro

BeamME Pro, an iPhone application that facilitates the exchange of social network information and collecting information in real time on every new contact you make, has launched a major update in the App Store. BeamMe Pro uses part of the new API for Apple to make it easier to share contacts in the iPhone. BeamMe Pro, which does not require user registration is not the download from the App Store without problems of their data formats.

Some key features of this version of Pro beamMe include contact mapping that can be traced to people who've met them on a map, a complete history of the people you've sent your contact information as well, and the default integration Address Book. This function is essential because beamMe Pro computer and synchronize with other applications such as Salesforce and Highrise without adding new software or complex processes.

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