UK’s gambling social networking site GottaBet is cleverly exploiting that nation’s latest scandal to promote itself. If you recall, the trio of Big Brother contestants Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O’Meara caused a national stir when they were accused by Bollywood diva Shilpa Shetty of racist bullying. The controversy caused days of [...]

Mobloco beta just launched. It seems to have flown in under the radar. I suspect it being based far away from Silicon Valley — Atlanta — and taking itself seriously as a money business rather than a sellout exit strategy venture desperate for Web2.0 buzz has a lot to do with it.
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The New York Times reports today that IBM will unveil Lotus Connections, a social networking product, at Monday’s annual Lotus Notes developers conference in Orlando.

Lotus Connections has five components — activities, communities, dogear (a bookmarking system), profiles and blogs — aimed at helping experts within a company connect and build new relationships based on their [...]

Ozmozr alpha launched three days ago. Ozmozr is the work of The Center for Open Sustainable Learning (COSL) at the Utah State University and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It’s billed as a “microformat-aware aggregator / resource sharing / social site.” I see it as a del.icio.us for RSS instead [...]