Although Google confirmed its plans late Tuesday, its new social networking platform won't be unveiled until later this week.
It is not just a world in which they watch the story of a white Harvard 20-something become a billionaire by inventing a social networking platform.
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The site is not another social networking platform.
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There's many other features to come with BB10 that will really level this BBM experience... which will upgrade that experience to a whole new social networking experience based on BBM... we want to use this to build a BlackBerry-driven social networking platform.
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It is hard to see how social networking can be both a platform for me openly share stuff and my private virtual locker.
At first glance, it seems the emergence of Facebook as a platform for social networking can only enhance the ability of these brands to create value for their customers.
Facebook provides a high-profile tool for company exposure and branding, and the wide reach of such a social platform can facilitate business networking.
The emergence of social networking has provided not only a platform for the adoption of social games, but a captive audience already devoting increasing amounts of time to online interactions.
Google's newly launched Android cell phone platform has similar potential and social networking applications are already being developed for it.
Another more recent example is social networking Web site Facebook, whose popularity has soared since it opened its platform to outside developers.
In addition, each new Smart VIERA HDTV offers an enhanced VIERA ConnectTM platform including more options for streaming video content, unique social networking features, fully-integrated apps, and intuitive search features designed to make the user experience fast and easy.
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According to the report, 7 Days has grown its bookings an average of 140% every year since 2006, monitors customer satisfaction, offers a loyalty program like US and European chains, and does the social networking thing. 7 Days uses its customer base and online booking platform to cross-sell airline tickets and car rental serives, so it benefits from a one-stop shopping convenience.
The deal provides it some much-needed cash, as Yahoo will have to pay for the flood of consumer data it will get from the social networking site, but the company has been loathe to set up its own ad platform.
Other popular social-networking sites, such as Twitter and LinkedIn, don't offer a direct-sale platform.
An activist-networking platform has the immediate advantage of easily engaging a young generation deeply rooted in the social-networking experience, in a new mode of 'philanthropy, ' 'giving back' or 'activism.
Focus areas listed in the jobs descriptions cover nearly every aspect of mobile development, including data synchronization, social networking, cloud services, search and maps, mobile commerce and improvements to the Windows Phone 7 applications platform.
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