TrendCentral: From giants MySpace and Facebook to niche sites Sneakerplay and SportsMates, it seems almost every group has a place to connect online. Adding a new twist to the basic social networking platform are the following temporary sites, which utilize user profiles as a basis for stardom and give members the power to decide who they want to see on […]

Philadelphia Weekly Online: Philips switched from a 9-to-5 job to one as an independent consultant building intranet infrastructure for pharmaceutical companies. And one warm summer day in 2004 he pulled his Mercedes up to a light in the western suburbs and began chatting with a cute girl in a Jaguar next to him. The light turned green. She drove away. […]

Popgadget: Scrapblog is a Flash application that allows you to create digital scrapbooks. The intuitive drag and drop functionality allows you to add pictures, text, video and audio onto a background (which is also editable), and once it’s finished, you can print it, burn in onto a DVD, or export it as a photoset to Flickr. You can choose to […]

Entrepreneur.com: Steve Weber always wanted to be part of something big, but he repeatedly saw opportunities, like the fax and PC markets, pass him by. “I told myself, ‘I’m going to get on the front end of one of these market waves,’” says Weber, 42. “When the internet came, I knew that was it. I didn’t want to miss out […]

Springwise: Mesh Tennis is a new social networking site just for tennis players, connecting the tennis community online. The website lets tennis players find other players of their own skill level, in their own area. It also lets players record scores and matches, review tennis gear, schedule events and read the latest tennis news. Becoming a member is free. Groups […]

Wired: John Shin refuses to buy a copy of his high school yearbook. Instead, he’s turning to the internet to preserve and share memories of his sophomore year. The 15-year-old has posted a collection of school-related photos and videos, as do many of his classmates. They’re able to exchange virtual notes, vote for the most likely to succeed and take […]

Springwise: One to watch is Naughty America, launching this summer. It’s an adult (18+) massively multiplayer online dating game, where players can create their own avatars and explore a ‘sexy’ world, or turn on their webcams for some real world ‘action’. Real-world meet-ups can be arranged for as well. Given the huge success for anything that involves social software, sex, […]

TechCrunch: We have social networks for just about everything these days. If there’s one for dogs and cats, why not for cars? Berkeley, California based Boompa is just that – a new web startup focused on car fanatics (and better yet, it isn’t ridiculous). The founders, Ethan Lance and Dave Snider, previously worked together at CNET before starting this company. […]

MutualWin: Today’s apartment complexes, gyms, credit card companies, vacation destinations, airlines, retailers, tax consultants and a wide variety of other businesses extend lucrative offers to encourage customers to refer friends to their business. A new Internet site, MutualWin, www.mutualwin.net, connects consumers so that they can take advantage of a wide range of referral offers, fulfilling the site’s slogan, “It’s a […]

Springwise: Appealing to the IM-generation, Eccky (created by Media Republic) is a multi-player concept that allows two people to create a virtual baby, add it to their MSN buddy list, and guide it through its childhood and teens. The look and characteristics of the child are based on the unique ‘DNA’ of its parents, which is derived from a quiz […]