BuddyPress will transform an installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.

BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact.
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The second Mashable NextUp NYC is almost here! The next event in the series is titled Lessons from the Local Internet Startup Community, and focuses on lessons learned by 4 New York-based web startups: Snooth, Behance, Savvy Auntie and Aviary.
The evening event takes place on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at 92Y Tribeca, 92nd [...]

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With the rise of social networking, many of us have hundreds if not thousands of online contacts. But how many of them do we actually keep up with? Probably not many. That’s the problem Zentact attempts to solve through a new service that keeps track of all your contacts across email [...]

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While voting continues until midnight Sunday to decide who is crowned the Open Web Awards “People’s Choice”, today we announce the winners of our Blogger’s Choice voting, as selected by our Blog Partners.
Over 100 Blog Partners have helped make this the biggest Open Web Awards to date with over 100,000 confirmed nominations and votes [...]

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Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), a Social Media Specialist at EMC Corporation, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.
Instead of scaring you with the harsh reality of the economy, I would much rather give you hope and advice [...]

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Back in October Facebook announced the 25 winners of fbFund, each of which has received $25,000 to develop their application further. That was only one round of fbFund; now, 5 winners have been chosen, with each receiving additional $225,000.
fbFund is a 10 million dollar seed fund which is a little different than traditional seed [...]

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Are eBooks being adopted? Is eBook usage increasing? Is the Amazon Kindle a total flop? Is the eBooks long promised revolution a rapidly disappearing fad or is this a new industry that is gradually finding its proper niche? What future awaits eBooks hardware and software producers and what should you expect in the [...]

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The latest MasterNewMedia traffic trends and statistics for the month of September show a slow but steady increase in volume and additional data further defining MasterNewMedia specific audience demographics and technographics (the characteristics and traits of their technical setup: browser, operating system, screen resolution, etc.).

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Residents of Massachusetts and California led the nation in googling the term “social networking” during the last 12 months according to Google Insights for Search, a new search analysis tool.
Launched on August 6, Google Insights for Search is a free service that allows users to track the popularity of phrases and words that have been [...]

eBay on Wednesday announced that it has dropped seller fees in an attempt to save you some money and increase the number of listings on each page.
According to the company, sellers will now be levied a flat 35 cent listing fee and will base fees on the successful sale of items instead of the fact [...]

For the very first time in the UK, the Web 2.0 University is running a one day Executive Bootcamp on Tuesday 30th September in London.
Designed by Dion Hinchcliffe & O’Reilly Media, the Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp is a one day event for a management and executive audience to gain a thorough brefing on the state [...]

Speaking at a conference in New York, Microsoft’s chief architect, Ray Ozzie, said open source is a bigger threat to the software juggernaut than Google is. He says open source developers are not restricted by the best interests of shareholders and potentially are, therefore, a stronger market force.
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Glastonbury revelers will be happy to know that a dead phone battery mid-festival doesn’t necessarily mean making no more calls until you get home. This is because Orange will be setting up their giant mobile phone charger again, powered by wind and solar power, to provide much-needed juice for low-powered festival goers.

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This is a provision with huge reach, and was slipped into the bill this week. Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay’s PayPal, Amazon, and Google Checkout, that are used by many online businesses.
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"The web is the force behind the most important innovation in recent history. We should be empowering individuals and small businesses to succeed in this new medium to the greatest possible extent, not taxing innovation. Introducing taxes now will severely cripple the web’s growth at this critical stage of early development." As a [...]

Tencent Inc, a company purportedly responsible for the largest IM service in China, has launched QQ Xiaoyou, a network currently allowing invited QQ users for testing ahead of a broader public launch, according to Tangos of China Web 2.0 Review. Amit Chowdry of Pulse 2.0 translates the network’s meaning as equatable to “Alumni.”
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Last.FM marked a company milestone many months ago when it signed a number of music industry giants to its multi-million-strong audio track list. The now CBS-owned service counted Warner Music Group as one of the first participants. No more. This week, Warner retracted its catalogue, as was reported first by Peter Kafka of Silicon Alley [...]

Only several days have passed since Starbucks and AT&T officially made available free Wi-Fi to US customers (upon purchase, registration, and use of a Starbucks Card with corresponding rewards program), and already T-Mobile, the coffee chain’s pre-existing wireless Internet service partner, has presented a lawsuit in New York state court.
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Revision3 has been in the news more than usual the past two week, mostly due to its falling victim to a denial-of-service attack on its servers by the RIAA and MPAA associate MediaDefender, a subset of ARTISTSdirect, Inc. Yesterday the independent video producer’s CEO announced another loss – though this time one quite a bit [...]

The tournament for the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, or Euro 2008 for short, commenced this weekend, and will carry through to June 29. Fans of the games will of course been keeping a close eye on their television sets, whether watching competing teams square off in Austria or Switzerland, the two host countries this [...]

Sometimes small changes can grow into big issues. Especially if those changes are made by an online corporation with global spread and hundreds of millions of regular consumers or users. Enter, the Google favicon.

Surely you’ve noticed the company’s shift from a big, brawny capital ‘G’ to a more reserved, accentuated and scripted lowercase ‘g’. How [...]

If you have more than one Gmail account you regularly use (I have five), one of the most annoying aspects of dealing with it is the fact that you cannot have more than one opened (opening two instances of a web browser doesn’t help either, because the cookie is shared between them) at the same [...]

Developing Web applications to be used within social networks and numerous other cloud-based structures is becoming more and more de rigueur for the entrepreneurial set. Both on the desktop and on the go, Web users in droves seek simple, unique software gadgets through which to access and manipulate data with easy while able to transfer [...]

But apparently CNet has acquired Loren Feldman, the creative force behind the 1938Media productions. In case the names Loren Feldman and 1938Media don’t ring a bell to you, perhaps you’ll have your memory jogged if I mention the TechRooster and the Shel Israel puppet at ShelIsrael.com (both creations of Loren Feldman).
Loren Feldman put out a [...]

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20-word Description: TenantWIZ enables vacation homeowners to streamline the management of their property online using TenantWIZ Vacation Rental Software.

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Adobe’s popular AIR runtime is gaining more and more fans, and with that, far more applications than ever that cover a broad spectrum of tools. From fun applications that let you order pizza from your desktop to applications that let you track your investments online and off , the entire spectrum is out there, [...]

It’s official! Obama Girl is attending tonight’s Mashable Exhibit Hall Party in New York City!

For those of you who don’t know Amber Lee Ettinger, a.k.a Obama Girl, she is an Internet celebrity that gained widespread fame in 2007 after starring in the viral YouTube video, “I Got A Crush On Obama.” The video was produced [...]

So Gmail just enabled the new Labs tab under your Settings, in an effort to get some users to try out the experimental features Google is playing around with. One of the biggest benefits, at least for testing purposes, is that you can enable multiple Gmail Labs features at once, whereas Google Search Labs [...]

It’s Friday, and we’re not far away from the arrival of happy hour. What are your plans for the evening? Visiting some bars? If you’re in or around New York City, you may want to direct your mobile phone browser to Meet Now Live. It’ll help you find bars, parties, and the people that make [...]

When a service as big as Amazon is unavailable, you expect at least a message along the lines of “something is technically wrong.” However, currently Amazon is as dead as it can be, with Amazon.com producing a mere “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” error message.
We’re usually cautious about writing reports on sites being down because they have [...]

Platform-A has announced its European expansion today, aligning with the AOL advertising operations that are already in existence in Europe, including Advertising.com, Adtech and buy.at. Having been built on the success of AOL’s existing advertising programs, as well as a way to incorporate the recently acquired Tacoda and Third Screen Media, Platform-A was created [...]

Only several hours have passed since Carl Icahn delivered his latest set of stipulations to Yahoo in an effort to facilitate a Microsoft takeover, and already Yahoo has sent back a response. The company said quite succinctly:
“Leaving aside Mr. Icahn’s inaccurate interpretation of our retention plan, we again note that he has no credible plan [...]

For a long time YouTube has managed to feel the love from a wide variety of people. From musicians to political theorists and comedians, the site has grown to be a large meeting place for voices around the globe.
More and more, YouTubers have been using the site as a means for reporting events, debating about [...]

Updated: What’s a week without Carl Icahn making more noise on the Microshoo front? Yet another letter has been sent the way of Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock by the activist investor. This time Icahn is talking share price.
The number Icahn is now officially willing to see Microsoft give Yahoo to finally force control of the [...]