Condo.com, the world’s largest condominium marketplace, joins the social networking scene as it launches its very own community that allows users to discuss and connect with a global audience through uploading videos, ad listing, blogging, and networking.

While several websites have already tried building up social networks in the real estate industry, Condo.com already has a robust community of users established around the web. With this new social networking platform, Condo.com expects to dominate the real estate blogosphere with its added functionality and user-generated content.

“Real Estate is a very social process,” said Richard Swerdlow, CEO, Condo.com. “By providing a social networking aspect to our site, along with added functionality such as free video postings and blogging to our users, we are encouraging participation in the condominium marketplace to all potential users and putting the power in their very own hands.”

Condo.com lists condos in the United States as well as 70+ more countries around the world, garnering over 15 million viewers per month.

Originally posted on June 7, 2007 @ 6:59 am

EppicSurf.com announced the launch of its new social network created exclusively the surf culture.

Eppic Surf is an online gallery where surfers can collect and share photos of their most recent surf sessions. It’s a place where photographers can display and sell their work and fans can buy prints and posters of their favorites. It’s a worldwide network where surfers and photographers can communicate with each other about everything from boards to lenses to beach conditions. 

”It’s like a surf museum of daily happenings in the surf world, but live and direct where you can communicate with everybody. It’s social networking like MySpace,” company founder Branimir Kvartuc, a professional photographer and amateur surfer in Hermosa Beach, said. Members have profiles where they can send messages and post photos and comments.

Originally posted on June 6, 2007 @ 11:00 am

A new social network was born to inspire a new generation of online philanthropy. Bring Light is a website where donors and nonprofits build communities to fund specific charitable projects. For donors, it is a fun, interactive and secure place where they can see where their contributions are going, and multiply the impact by building Giving Groups around the causes they care about. For charities, it is a quick, simple and inexpensive way to fundraise and build relationships with new donors on the Web.

Co-founders Melissa Dyrdahl and Drew McManus left senior executive positions at Adobe Systems to apply their business, marketing and technology expertise to help charities connect more effectively with donors online, and give people a stronger personal link to their giving.

Bring Light was created for people who want to feel connected to the result of their donations. The site features specific projects posted by charities that are first screened by Bring Light for legitimacy. Donors can see evidence of their impact with real-time updates and by chatting with others in the community, including the charity itself who is encouraged to report back on how the money was spent.

Originally posted on June 6, 2007 @ 7:59 am