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AT&T Inc.  has just announced  the launch of "My Communities," a new downloadable gateway that lets users create and manage multiple social networking accounts through a single dashboard view on their mobile phone.

My Communities was developed by Intercasting Corporation, a leading mobile social networking company. The launch coincides with recent data showing that a majority of social networking users maintain multiple accounts and that a growing number are maintaining their social networks primarily by using wireless handsets.

Uh….Where’s FaceBook?

At first glace this looks great, but digging deeper into this, even with MySpace, Xanga, LiveJournal and many more, FaceBook somehow fell off the face of this offering.

A few cool features though:

• Through My Communities, subscribers can register for social sites directly from their phone without ever having to go to the Web, a feature not common with most other social networking applications
• From an easy-to-use dashboard view, My Communities users can upload photos from their phone, view and respond to new messages, approve and deny friend requests and view and post new comments across multiple sites. Users can alternatively click to enter a specific site for a more customized experience. Updates are synched across mobile and online channels in real time.
• Subscribers can also access their phone, camera, media gallery and address book while My Communities is running, which enables them, for example, to upload photos to use on one or more social networks and send site content to phone contacts without closing the application.

If you have an iPhone, you can download most free Social Networking sites and not have to pay for this type of service.

My Communities is available on more than 30 devices for a monthly subscription of $2.99. It can be downloaded from the AT&T MEdia Mall, accessible via AT&T handsets and online at www.att.com/mediamall.

My suggestion:  upgrade to the iPhone and get on any major social network for free.

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AT&T is making introducing new social media tools and platforms

JuiceCaster 6.0 and Buzzwire — that keep you connected to your online world. JuiceCaster 6.0 enables you to use your AT&T wireless device to instantly share and post your mobile videos and photos with your favorite online communities — including exclusive mobile video postings to YouTube and Flickr. With Buzzwire, you can access and customize an extensive streaming media library that spans popular video and audio content, as well as live Internet radio, directly from AT&T phones.

JuiceCaster 6.0

This unique application from Juice Wireless lets you share videos and pictures from your wireless device to the Web’s most popular social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. AT&T customers also have exclusive access to post directly to YouTube and Flickr as well. Family and friends can instantly view, rate and comment on content directly from their own phones or directly from an online social-networking site.

AT&T customers can use JuiceCaster to:

• Post mobile pictures and video to popular social-networking Web sites and blogs, including Blogger, Facebook, LiveJournal, MySpace, Twitter and Xanga

• Set your status to update automatically on Facebook and Twitter, and receive friends’ status updates on their own phones

• Broadcast existing or new mobile videos and photos to global audiences using YouTube and Flickr, without requiring a computer or Internet connection

• Make content public or create custom groups by adding and connecting with friends directly from AOL, JuiceCaster, Gmail, Hotmail, MS Outlook and Yahoo!

Meet new friends within the JuiceCaster community
JuiceCaster 6.0 is available for $2.99 a month on compatible 2G and 3G AT&T handsets. AT&T customers can simply text Juice to 386 to begin connecting and communicating in a rich social- networking environment that includes profiles, pictures, videos, friend lists, comments, ratings and personal status updates. For more information on JuiceCaster, visit www.att.com/mediamall. 

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I had fun watching Jeff’s most recent video on what you need for personal social networking. Give it a look.

See those of you who are coming to his Monday breakfast there.

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Another way to get users to use voice or VoIP. SpinVox has managed to do what other Voice or VoIP providers failed to notice. Get people to blog or twitter over voice. I think I wrote about spinvox technology being used with Skype to blog. Wonder why I did not hear about it much?

WeSeePeople: SpinVox spins Voice into Social Networking and Micro Blogging.

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Looks like Blackberrys are going Social Networking, no!, Business like Social Networking
WeSeePeople: BlackBerrys On your Face, Facebook

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Looks like Blackberrys are going Social Networking, no!, Business like Social Networking
WeSeePeople: BlackBerrys On your Face, Facebook

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It is classy example to prove what VoIP can do for social networking and online dating activities. WooMe, which goes by the tag line meet 5 people in 5 minutes, has harnessed the power of VoIP technology to provide its members an effective means of communication.

At the very outset, WooMe is a unique dating site where users can crate their own sessions based on their interests. The sessions are aimed at providing live audio-video interactions to the users where they can share their varied experiences on different interesting topics.

The unique feature of WooMe is that it does not ask users to reply a number of questions or insist them to compile lengthy application form for registration. There is also no need to download any special software to run the application. It is simple and free.

At WooMe, you can develop personal relationship. For instance, you like a person after talking to him/her. You can get the contact detail of that particular person by paying just $1. However, the person must also interest in developing relationship with you.

Any way, its the cheap way to get your loved ones. All I can say the blending of VoIP in social networking can definitely make a difference.

Source: voipcentral.org

Voice has a voice. If it were not, the VCs would have not poured into the VoIP market in the light of recent hustle and bustle. According to media reports, Jaxtr has raised $10m in its first round of funding.

The Ex-Skype investors, Mayfield Fund, Draper Richards, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mangrove Capital were among the investors who participated Jaxtrs first round of funding.

Way back in March this year, I reported here about Jaxtr when it first came to market. It has now more than one million customers. The achievement is mainly due to the fact that the Calif.-based company introduced a new wave of VoIP services bring social networking features for the users.

Jaxtr is a free service, using which you can make unlimited outbound international calls from your mobile phone and can make unlimited voice mails.

The company is in constant touch with the leading social networking sites including MySpace, Blogger, LiveJournal, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and eBay to avail its services to their users.

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Its blend of VoIP with social networking. The integration of new Jangl application with Facebook Platform has taken the social networking to new levels enabling Facebook community members to access VoIP and messaging service instinctively.

Jangl is a free VoIP application. With Jangl, you can share your phone number using an ID from Jangles site. You are always in control of how and when you want to talk. Jangl uses caller ID to route calls. The receiver finds only the Jangl Number. It does not show your private phone number to the public.

Facebook is one of the most popular social networking site with more than 25 million registered users by the end of 2007. It is the sixteenth most visited site in the world and sixth most visited site in America.

Using Jangl services, they can now talk to each other over phone without the fear of losing privacy. The Jangl widget linked to members email IDs enables them to access VoIP service without revealing their personal phone numbers to the public.

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Of course you already know that you can do more than talking on your cell phone. Weseepeople tells us about social networking with cell phones that are GPS enabled.

WeSeePeople: Next tool in Social Networking, Your GPS enabled Cell Phone!

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A lengthy Tom Keating post on Jaxtr gives me an impression that both VoIP and Social Networking are now coming together to form a common platform for users to share their views, profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos. Its a healthy trend in the current voice market.

The launch Jaxtr public beta breaches the gap between VoIP and social networking. The use and application of Jaxtr is very simple, but versatile.

It is a free service, using which you can make unlimited outbound international calls from your mobile phone and can make unlimited voice mails.

Their site has these words,

With the free jaxtr service, users can link their phones with their online network to hear from callers worldwide while keeping their existing phone numbers private. And jaxtr is not just about hearing from people who visit a user’s profile or blog. By adding their jaxtr link to their email signature, global friends can call our users on their phone with the click of the mouse - without downloading any software, incurring international phone charges or even registering for jaxtr.

Jaxtr is in constant touch with the leading social networking sites including MySpace, Blogger, LiveJournal, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and eBay to avail its services to their users.

Source: voipcentral.org

Coming out of beta, Skype has officially launched 3.0 version of its peer-to-peer VoIP services bringing several of new features with it. The announcement came just a few days after eBay scrapped the free calling promotion offer.

As stated earlier, VoIP is getting into social networking, the latest Skype version has also some essential social networking features like pubic chats or Skypecasts where users can talk to 100 people.

Skype 3.0 possesses Lasst.fm music service enabling Skypers to listen music and show others the music what they are listing. It has also Mood messaging service. It makes you to convey your feelings to others.

Another striking feature of Skype 3.0 is that it has now plug-ins in the “Do More” menu that enables Skype users to have fun with games, record their Skype conversations and share a whiteboard.

With Skype 3.0, you can get a number of free services including, Free VoIP calls using Skype tools, Video calls, Group Chat, Conferencing calls up to four people, Sending files and photos and searching web with Google tool bar.

However, the customers need to make a small payment for other services such as Calls to ordinary phones and mobiles, SkypeIn call, Skype Voicemail, Skype SMS.

The systems required for Skype 3.0 are Windows 2000 and XP, Internet connection, Speakers and microphone, 1GHz processor and webcam.