Monthly Archives: June 2008

Location based social network

A quick search on mobile social network springs up several websites on Google. Its amazing to see how VC’s interest can spring up technologies in a sector. Mobile applications are obviously very hot in VC Land.
Here is a small section of the companies I found interesting which I haven’t covered in the past:

Groovr: Think MySpace [...]

Posted in Business 2.0, Social Networks, Web World | 1 Comment

Innovation and Kwiqq

Just read an article in BusinessFirst magazine where Mike Herd, Director of SINC speaks about Innovation. You can read the whole article here (Page 65).
FirstBusiness very kindly mentioned Kwiqq:
Another very high profile client has been Kwiqq, which builds social networking sites for organizations, companies or anyone who wants one. The founder, Raj Anand, [...]

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Multilingual social networks but unknown to us ?

If you follow the big social networks (Facebook, Myspace etc) you will be forgiven to assume that, its them who have all the users. There are several other social network in English with millions of users who are not covered in the news as often.
Also check out Social Networks in the Far East where Facebook [...]

Posted in Bebo, Europe 2.0, Facebook, Fun 2.0, Social Networks, Web World | 2 Comments

Professional Social Network with a twist

Often when thinking of professional social networks, LinkedIn springs to mind. LinkedIn was recently evaluated at $1 billion based on its Series D funding. Their main source of revenue is subscription, jobs, sponsorships and membership fee.

Check out the Kwiqq team on LinkedIn
Similarly other social networks which deal with business/professionals in mind have sprung [...]

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Feather and Fireworks Ball

Yesterday (Saturday) our sister company, E3 Group celebrated its 10th year anniversary. E3 Group’s CEO, David Hill is on the board of Directors of Kwiqq and Jack Fairhall, Kwiqq’s CEO is the former managing director of E3 Group.
The show was fantastic with fireworks and live entertainment. The proceeds of the night were donated to [...]

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Telecommunication Giant’s Social Networks

Enterprises in North America and Western Europe see Web 2.0 to be a priority for next year. They are expected to spend $5bn more in the next 5 years. The Telecommunication industry is well into it already! With all the major players: Motorola, LG, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson with their own social Networks
Content Providers
Nokia [...]

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Kwiqq commissioned finerday.com in partnership with Microsoft, Intel and Sun

Kwiqq has been commissioned by Finerday Ltd to build a social website for grandparents to keep in touch through email, text and video call. Sneak Preview

Finerday is working with Age Concern for the week long Silver Surfer Campaign. Finerday are also supported by the following partners:

At Kwiqq we are glad to be part [...]

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Social Networking Awards

Like in business winning awards could potentially accelerate your growth and kudos for your social network. Its almost clear that winning these awards needs your social network to be : 1) Very well funded 2) Well marketed 3) Most importantly ‘Freaking’ Good.
Two awards I regard very credible:

The winner of these awards were the usual [...]

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Wireframes for a social networks

If you were to ask any designer / creative team the process for designing websites, developing wireframes would be fairly high on the list. If I were to define wireframes I would say they are visual representation of a site which are interactive but not the final product
Wikipedia definition:“Wireframes are a basic visual guide used [...]

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