MySpace Aquired Social Chat Startup Threadbox

  News Corp.'s MySpace social networ has finalized a deal to buy certain, unspecified assets of social messaging platform Threadbox. Venturebeat had reported last month that a deal was in the works, although Threadbox wouldn?t talk about it then.

Threadbox now says several key members of the Threadbox team have moved over to MySpace and we plan to apply our technology there in a variety of ways, adding that those of you that were using Threadbox socially may even find what we are building at MySpace interesting. Venturebeat says CEO Michael Cerda has joined MySpace as vice president of product, communications.

Threadbox was mainly focused on remaking e-mail as a real-time messaging experience. Like an instant message box, the service showed users who among their list of friends was available online, and let them post and receive messages, files, images. It's possible that the technology is being applied in the major overhaul of MySpace that News Corp. has promised is coming within months.      

FolkDirect - The New Secure And Safe Social Network

The folkdirect.com social platform sparks the interest of seasoned internet socialites and newcomers to the phenomenon alike. Enhanced features and tight privacy controls put this easily accessible and free website on the scene. The site is noted for having minimal advertising targeted by user location and not user content.

Initial objectives:

As set out by a group of English friends living in Europe in January 2010:

• Build a social network with strong and dependable privacy controls
• Functionality and features of a normal social network, additional blog tools and in-house gaming
• No advertising based around user content
• No third-party applications phishing and selling user content

Folkdirect.com is designed and maintained by professional programmers supported in-house by a team of internet users and enthusiasts. Without external funding the team have been able to focus entirely on user feedback, not corporate agendas, and improve on their existing platform.

The site includes mechanisms for the reporting of unwanted or illegal content and a user blocking system to remove unwelcome contacts to aid the security of its users.

Giv.to - The New Platform For Social Web

Giv.to is new online social enterprise  startup that engages readers  and helps raise funds for any cause or campaign. Users  use the website to make donations, sign up  petitions  or volunteer  their services. The website provides a set of analytics  that let you understand  the motivations and interests of your supporters by displaying their behavior in the form of  charts and  graphs.

Giv.to enables causes to reach their audience at the peak moment of interest and analyze how that interest relates to online content across multiple sites. These advantages increase both the yield and reach of fundraising campaign. 

PetSocialOnline - Social Network For Healhty Pets

Not only are there social networking websites for humans, but now PetSocialOnline.com allows pet owners use networks for discussing their pets, post pictures as well as bits of information on favorite pet quirks and behavior. For news related to pet health, healthy pet lifestyles, and places to find other pets that may want to set up play dates, PetSocialOnline.com has everything for one to spend hours of reading and browsing their articles and pictures of other pets set up for pet social networking. 

Assembling advice from some of the industry's most knowledgeable experts, the website features many articles that revolve around keeping pets healthy in both physical being, as well as emotion. A healthy pet leads to one of the most rewarding relationships between him and the owner, and PetSocialOnline.com shares many different tips and opinions on ways to achieve this quality lifestyle. While there may be a need for canine teeth cleaning tips or recipes for healthy pet food, the website gives its readers the most up to date and informative articles possible.

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Moodify.me - Social networking based on moods

Moodify is a  a new social network where people connect based on their feelings  and emotions. Users can have an overall  perception of the way others feel, and choose to track their emotional status.

Horsesmouth - Be or find a mentor

Horsesmouth is a free social network that connects people to mentors. Users can browse for inspirational profiles and learn from  the skills and knowledge of those who ' have been there'.

Horsemouth is about getting the wisdom straight from the horse's mouth.

Rally Up is a Location-Based Network For People Who Like Privacy

A new geolocation app for the iPhone was released today called Rally Up. What differentiates Rally Up from the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla is that it has a strong focus on privacy and content sharing. Rally Up bills itself as ?a social network for real friends,? letting users share messages and photos with the people they trust.

Netvibes Makes It To Profitability By Appealing To Businesses

Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini announced today that the startup founded five years ago has finally made it to profitability

YumIt - A Social Network For Food Lovers

YumIt is a social networking site. As its name so aptly implies, it is wholly devoted to food and gastronomy-connected topics

Stency -Simplified approach to real-time search

Real-time search engines allows users to search  and follow the latest news  on social networks such as Twitter. They idex published news  and serve up the  most current stories related to a particular keyword.

Stency is the latest startup  to jump into the market. It was launched last October and has already over 150k  hits  a month. Other competitors such as Collecta, CrowdEye, OneRiot and Topsy offer their own approach in filtering real-time search.

The startup was launched by Evan Britton, a verteran internet marketer as a side project with minimal investment. He believes there is certainly a room for bootstapped coompanies like his to carve a respectable  portion of the market.

Sency offers a relatively simple view of search results filtered exclusively by time with two seperate views of search results: texts and links. By splitting  links from text , spammers won't be able to  merge  text related  to a particular keyword  with links directing to irrelevant  sites.