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Online portal 7thSpace launches social networking community

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Social networking community 7thSpace has announced the launch of its one-stop online portal 7thSpace.com. Besides covering areas such as business, family, entertainment, webmaster resources and many other topics, 7thSpace also allows members to create their own public profiles, including interactive features such as audio and video recordings.

7thSpace currently consists of over 10 different zones such as the family zone, where family members can enjoy entertainment, news, classified ads, food and drink recipes and many other related services, while “Dad” may want to browse 7thSpace’s business zone, post job openings, read business news or submit company web sites to the business directory.

Besides covering the sections mentioned above, 7thSpace also allows website members to create their own online profiles to make new friends online. Unlike many other social networking websites, 7thSpace provides many attractive services such as interactive audio and video profiles, chat rooms supporting web-cams and audio chat, online forums covering everything from entertainment to politics and many other interesting site features.

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Originally posted on February 19, 2008 @ 4:31 am

Bango Analytics meets demand for mobile web stats

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Bango has launched Bango Analytics, a new product that delivers mobile focused web stats essential to understanding how people interact with mobile websites and which marketing campaigns are most effective. Bango Analytics helps mobile site owners engage with their audience more effectively by providing information about who their visitors are, where they come from and what they do.

Bango profiles millions of users browsing the mobile web across hundreds of networks world-wide. Using its unique identification technology, Bango Analytics records and presents detailed information on the overall patterns of traffic visiting a mobile site, right down to the behavior of individual users without revealing any personal data.

Bango Analytics provides answers to the following questions:

• How many unique visitors did I have to my mobile site today?
• What phones are they using?
• What networks in which countries do my visitors use?
• Which content was the most popular?
• Which search term gives the best results?
• What’s my total return on investment from a marketing campaign?

Originally posted on February 18, 2008 @ 6:20 pm

Eons releases Version 2.0 of its social network

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Eons, Inc. unveiled Version 2.0 of its social network and online community for “BOOMers” with a beta release. The new site makes it easier than ever for eons.com members – whether they are social networking veterans or new to the community experience – to explore their passions, keep in touch with friends, connect with interesting people to share life experiences, and most of all, have fun.

Eons.com’s enhanced features and community functionality make it easier than ever for spirited boomers to build a Profile, participate in Groups, and engage in popular community features. A new search engine lets members find friends and make connections with boomer peers who share their passions. From books to perennial gardening, from travel to politics, eons.com members are tapping into the wealth of knowledge others have to share in more than 3,100 (and growing) Groups.

Originally posted on February 15, 2008 @ 6:50 pm

Hoobly changes way people use online classifieds

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Hoobly announced its release of Radius Search, a unique complement to Hoobly’s existing city, state, national and international views, that gives users a new way to search classifieds. With Hoobly’s Radius Search, Internet shoppers can choose any city and zoom in or out, displaying ads within 5 to 500 miles of their chosen location. Hoobly.com is the first online classified site to give consumers the freedom to cross city, state and country lines to more easily find the items they are looking to buy.

More than 500,000 consumers have already turned to Hoobly to buy, sell and rent items and services. Hoobly enables consumers to search across 135,000 cities in 212 countries. A report by Pew Internet Research ranked Hoobly.com as one of the ten most popular local online classified sites.

Originally posted on February 15, 2008 @ 6:13 pm

MinyanLand launched, aims to teach financial literacy to kids

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Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, a financial media company, has partnered with Kaboose, an online family-oriented portal, to launch MinyanLand— the first free financial virtual community to teach kids and their families the fundamentals of finance.

With the current economic uncertainty affecting the financial health of millions around the world, this immersive community uses educational games and an economy simulating the real world to teach kids – at a very early age – the four cornerstones of finance – earning, saving, spending and giving.

Visitors can create a personalized MinyanLand “Critter” and are set up with a home and bank account with $5,000 in MinyanMoney. Kids can work to earn more, invest, shop and re-locate to new neighborhoods just as in a real economy. As a special launch promotion, the first 50,000 registrants will get $50,000 in MinyanMoney to start the game.

Originally posted on February 16, 2008 @ 12:37 pm

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