Popular location-based network Gowalla announced the 3.0 update of its mobile app, which integrates the service with rival Foursquare.
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With its new congruent app, Gowalla 3 has broken the barriers between the popular geosocial sites – a startling and quite clever campaign to …
With less than 24 hours before a possible deal with Google may be announced, Groupon has revealed plans for a hefty expansion to the deal-based site, including a social network to call its very own.
(More on TIME: Google To Buy Groupon For $6 Billion?)
The initiative includes two new innovative features: Groupon Stores and a …
Telethons no more: Non-profits around the world are working to raise AIDS awareness via social media.
Silent For A Cause:
The Digital Life Sacrifice campaign, lead by singer Alicia Keys, is raising money for the Keep A Child Alive fund, which provides support to people affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. To raise finances, …
As Twitter flips the off-switch to its “verified account” feature, we would like to extend a warm welcome to the return of the celebrity impostor.
(More on TIME: Facebook Alum Starts “Jumo” Social Network For Charities)
The system, introduced in June 2009, won’t be wiped from feeds that have already earned a “verified” status, but …
Book lovers, take note: The best reading buddies might not frequent your local bookstores.
If you’re tired of testing book clubs that somehow always seem to be covers for mindless gossip, take your love of lit to the web. Social reading sites have become the new meeting place for book lovers, as comment threads double as circled …
Facebook is one step closer to trade marking the word, “face.” The very idea would be ridiculous if it wasn’t proof of the company’s rapid escalation within the race for web sovereignty.
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The trademark, which only applies to the word “face” when it’s used for online …
Soon you can be an omnipotent being on Facebook. Pocket God is coming to Facebook courtesy of Frima Studios, a Quebec-based developer. The iOS game had remained on the iTunes App Store Top 100, but now it’s ready to take on the social media realm.
(More on TIME.com: 18 iPhone Games To Keep You Occupied)
The episodic game has you …
You can now log into the social network that nobody uses anymore with your username and password from the social network everyone uses. And with that, MySpace has pretty much given up on trying to be a social network in the interest of serving as a personalized entertainment site instead.
That’s actually pretty smart.
You can now …
Zynga, the company behind wildly popular Facebook games such as FarmVille and FrontierVille, has announced that CityVille will be rolling out “in the coming weeks.”
(More on Techland: Rumor: Zynga Prepping ‘CityVille’ Social Game?)
Zynga is calling CityVille its “most social game to date.” You’ll be able to build your own city …
No, this isn’t the start to a really bad joke. Both Bill Clinton and a pastor based out of New Jersey have put bans on Facebook, though for completely different reasons.
(More on TIME.com: Should Governments Be Able To Censor Facebook?)
Though Clinton might have partnered with the man who created the Internet Al Gore, he’s banning …
With Facebook’s new messaging service announcement, comes news of a new relationship. It looks like Mark Zuckerberg has ‘friended’ Microsoft.
As the Facebook ‘non-email’ rolls out over the next few months, Microsoft’s Office Web Apps will enable users to access Word, Excel and PowerPoint docs inside the Facebook browser …
There’s a new photo sharing service in town. Path, available initially for iPhone, makes the idea of social networking an images-only affair and limits your network to just 50 people. The result is a “place you will always feel comfortable being yourself and sharing the story of your life with your closest friends and family,” according …
