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How sugar daddy sites are making a killing online
These days it seems countless young financially stricken women are flocking to online dating sites to bag a rich old man. In the US alone, so-called "sugar daddy" sites account for 10 percent of the entire US$700-million online dating industry a year.
The “sugar daddy” trend is reported to have started in 2006 when, Brandon Lee, a successful entrepreneur founded SeekingArrangement. His service has been featured in the New York Times and on Dr. Phil. The intro on the website ...Is Skype a social network?
Nothing Microsoft has ever built, or bought for that matter, has ever succeeded in the social sphere. But what about Skype? Surely Skype should be counted as a social network. It fulfills many of the same functions that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.You can set a status "mood" message, you can text message, use it as a group chat system, you can share files, photos, your computer screen. Plus, you can talk with people plus video calls, and set up videoconferences ...Pinterest: A beginner’s guide to pinning stuff
Pinterest is the latest social media craze and seems to have the web all aflutter. It is currently the web's second fastest growing site -- of any kind, having gone past the ten-million user mark just a month after launching.This latest social media platform goes far beyond simply just sharing or liking things of interest. It allows users to collaborate on various projects or topics of interest.From creating a mood board for your home renovations to keeping tabs on ...Pinterest: The next big social network or just a collection of pretty pictures?
It’s the invite-only social network that has already attracted more than 10-million registered users. The virtual pin board has many technology writers lauding the site as the next big thing in social media and web design -- it even made Time’s list of 50 best websites in 2011. But who actually uses Pinterest, how is it used, and just how "social" is it exactly?What is Pinterest?Pinterest is a visual online pinboard, where the "pins" are images and videos collected from ...Why social networking numbers are a crock
User numbers reported by Facebook, Twitter, Google, and many other sites are closely watched. They reveal trends in adoption and they are one of the few public metrics available to analysts trying to assign value to companies preparing an initial public offering.But how accurate are these numbers?In some anecdotal cases, the number of users, active and actual, could be as small as one-third. And nearly one-half of user accounts could be fake or contain no user profiles.No user profiles means ...Not free, not open: The Memeburn interview with WhatsApp’s Brian Acton
In one of only a handful of public interviews ever given by WhatsApp, co-founder Brian Acton talks exclusively to Memeburn about simplicity, speed and simplicity, and what it takes to make some cash.The fact that WhatsApp is so popular is no surprise, and yet to become the number one smartphone messaging app in a sea of same-same services is mysterious. Sure, people like to communicate, and will latch onto a service that lets them do it easily and cheaply. ...Adventurers, athletes ‘check into’ the wild with social networking
Gone are the days when all you needed to climb a mountain or run a marathon were some good shoes and ropes. These days sports enthusiasts and adventure travelers rely on apps and social networking to track their progress and share experiences with friends and the online community.
Parker Liautaud, now 17, became the first person to “check into” the North Pole via the location-based social networking site Foursquare in 2010. Since then he’s been tweeting and posting on Facebook ...Niche social networks: Too focused or a playground for smaller brands?
For a while now it has been the general belief that bigger brands with all the budget are making it nearly impossible for smaller brands with less budget to cut through the clutter and get themselves heard in advertising spaces. But how true is this statement when there are a lot of smaller niche sites out there?Where are the major brands advertising?
The major consumer brands are spending a lot of advertising and marketing budget on the major social networks -- ...Facebook apps, Twitter see massive growth in the workplace
We all know that Facebook apps, particularly the gaming, ones are incredibly popular. What might be surprising, however, is how rapidly the use of Facebook apps in the workplace has grown in the past year.According to new research from network security vendor Palo Alto networks, app traffic in the work place grew from four percent to 14% between October 2010 and December 2011. Time spent on games from specialist social game developer Zynga -- responsible for titles such as ...A tweet from a kill: Should we stay connected when we’re away from it all?
One morning last December, I tweeted from a lion kill. While the sounds of cracking bone and the reek of dead giraffe rose up through the swampy Lowveld air, I was hunched over my iPhone, tweeting about what I was watching. In my defense, I was so excited that I had to share the experience -- and the most obvious place to do that was on Twitter. Some of my followers were appalled (to tweet from the bush was to ...
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