Social network hi5 is unveiling a program today that it hopes will snare more social game developers who will make exclusive games for its 50 million users.
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Social network hi5 launches program to court game developers
Startup Get Satisfaction made a name for itself by moving customer service away from company web sites and onto pages that are created by customers themselves. Now the San Francisco company is expanding its approach beyond the Get Satisfaction site — to Facebook. Many companies already have Facebook Fan Pages where they can interact with their customers, but Get Satisfaction has partnered with a company called Involver to turn these pages into what it calls Social Engagement Hubs
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Get Satisfaction brings more satisfaction to Facebook Fan Pages
Facebook is allegedly planning to roll out location sharing capabilities next month, once again playing catch-up to other services that have gained popularity thanks to location data. The rumor comes courtesy of anonymous sources who have been “briefed on the project” speaking to the New York Times , who said that Facebook will announce the feature at Facebook’s annual f8 conference in late April.
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Facebook’s location feature expected to launch next month
Microsoft today began rolling out its new MSN homepage , but not everyone will be getting it at once: the update will trickle out over the next few weeks to the site’s 100 million US customers. The software giant is touting the new version as “its most significant homepage redesign in over a decade.” It comes with a new MSN butterfly logo (which complements the Bing logo), a larger Bing search box and tighter integration with the search engine, local information from a new feature dubbed MSN Local Edition, as well as the addition of three social network streams: the Windows Live “What’s New” feed of course, Facebook, and Twitter. The above was previewed in November , but Microsoft says the redesign includes more than 30 updates that are based on 70,000 pieces of customer feedback.
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Microsoft begins rolling out redesigned MSN homepage
Sequoia-backed Bump Technologies Inc . is closing in on 10 million downloads for its nifty contact and data-sharing app. With iPhone and iPod Touch sales estimated to be around 80 million , co-founder Jake Mintz says this means the company’s apps are on more than 10 percent of Apple’s phones
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Bump Technologies closes in on 10 million downloads
Filed under: Software , Developer , iPhone iQapps has updated their app Trip Journal to version 4.0, and the new update adds a fair bit of functionality to the already pretty impressive set of trip recording and tagging features. As with previous versions, you can track pictures, notes, and maps of your trips , and communicate via a number of social networks and features with friends and family. The newest version allows for either manual or automatic waypointing as you travel around the world, multiple trip management, and hooks into social networks like Google Earth, Picasa, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, straight from the iPhone 3GS’ GPS and video camera.
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Enter to win Trip Journal 4.0 for the iPhone
The next-generation Facebook games will arrive one of these days. Gravity Bear , a new social game startup run by game veteran Phil Shenk, is betting that its 3-D Battle Punks game will meet that definition
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Gravity Bear launches 3-D combat Battle Punks game on Facebook
Social networking, on a scale as large as Twitter and Facebook , is great for connecting with people and finding information. It’s not very good for finding people with common interests, and talking about those interests.
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ShoutEm brings mobile social networking to screaming fans and more
