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LiveJournal user elected to its Advisory Board

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livejournal.jpgLiveJournal concluded its inaugural LiveJournal User-Representative Election with Jennifer Brady of Mesa, Arizona emerging as winner. Ms. Brady will formally join the LiveJournal Advisory Board on June 1, 2008.

Ms. Brady is a long-time LiveJournal user. Her current LiveJournal account is under the name of legomymalfoy. After garnering the required number of endorsements, Ms. Brady announced her candidacy on May 16. Following her election victory, Ms. Brady will join current Advisory Board members danah boyd, Esther Dyson, Brad Fitzpatrick and Lawrence Lessig.

As earlier announced, LiveJournal allocated two positions on the Advisory Board for elected representatives from its user base. This move is unprecedented for a major social network and will offer LiveJournal users a defined role in the development of the service for the first time.

Ms. Brady received 36.5% first place votes, which led to an instant run-off under the terms of the election. Under the terms of the instant run-off, Ms. Brady was the ultimate winner. Candidates ‘jameth’ and ‘rm’ came in second and third, respectively. All told, 25,875 votes were cast in the election.

Originally posted on May 30, 2008 @ 4:47 pm

Kakaku.com launches social media service for engineers

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Kakaku.com, Japan’s largest price comparison/consumer review site, announced the launch of okyuu.com beta, a community for IT engineers that allows users to freely post and share tips and knowledge relating to information technology.

IT engineers commonly share tips and knowledge through blogs and on-line forums but this information is so fragmented across the Internet that it takes considerable time and effort for engineers to find the information they need from sources they can trust.

Originally posted on May 22, 2008 @ 11:38 pm

Infidelity growing online

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Infidelity is hitting a milestone. AshleyMadison.com, an infidelity dating service, has doubled its membership base to 2 million in just one year since launching. The 2 millionth member is Hillary08.

The site’s membership, about 85%, is from the U.S.California tops the list of fastest growing states with an incredible 205% increase in membership since last year. New Jersey and New York follow suit with 172% and 155% respectively with Pennsylvania and Florida rounding out the top 5.

Infidelity is a fact of life. It is a breach of faith towards your partner. So, why stay?

Originally posted on May 7, 2008 @ 9:28 am

eHealthforum.com glams up its online ad strategy

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ehealth.pngIn an exclusive partnership arrangement, Glam Media will represent premium ad inventory for EHEALTHforum’s categories for women’s health and pregnancy. As well as increasing traffic, the co-branded deal will bring EHEALTHforum volumes of extra information from Glam Media’s network of over 500 lifestyle websites, blogs and online magazines. Glam Media will also leverage EHEALTHforum’s medical related online content inventory for advertisers and on the Glam.com Wellness channel.

EHEALTHforum has over 1.25 million unique users per month, over 70 percent of which are women. Glam Media is the category leader for women in the United States and in the U.K*, with more than four and a half million unique visitors in the U.K. recorded in February 2008. Glam Media’s distributed media network model has a reach of 64 million unique monthly visitors globally.

Originally posted on April 29, 2008 @ 12:02 pm

Wet Seal launches new online fashion community

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wetseal.pngWet Seal, a leading specialty retailer to young women, has launched a new fashion community. The fashion community offers customers an enhanced shopping experience through a social networking platform using the latest Web 2.0 technology.

Customers can also create original Wet Seal styles by building outfits using the entire online assortment. Key features of the fashion community include the ability to build, tag, share and purchase outfits through a personalized boutique, build a fashion network by chatting with other stylists in the message center, and rate and purchase other stylists’ outfits in “The Runway.”

Originally posted on April 28, 2008 @ 10:54 am