Shares in Vodafone rose after the UK mobile operator announced a deal with News Corp’s MySpace under which footage from Vodafone-sponsored music events will be made available to users of the social networking website. Read the rest of this entry »

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There is a big “Traffic Jam” about to happen, caused by Nuffnang.

Top 100 Most Interesting Blogs will be selected to be featured in Traffic Jam where each blogger will be designated a computer at the high traffic Youth ’08 Event to promote their blogs to the masses attending the event.

Also to meet the requirement “Note that with the limited number of places, priority will be given to EXCLUSIVE Nuffnangers who are not a part of any other Asian Blog Ad Network” 

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Here are some websites that is expected to boom this year.

Etsy.com

The New York-based internet retailer says it is “your place to buy and sell all things handmade”. Where Amazon revolutionised online commerce and eBay made its name allowing people to sell off their unwanted possessions, Etsy hopes to tap into the trend for hand-crafted and personalised items.

With thousands of craftspeople selling everything from clothes and ceramics to jewellery, the site has quickly become an Aladdin’s Cave of the internet.

Its innovative sales approach - such as letting shoppers browse by colour, or allowing geographical searches to support local suppliers - has drawn a legion of followers. Etsy now has more than half a million registered users and 60,000 sellers.

Founded by 27-year-old Robert Kalin from Boston, the site was launched in 2005 and now has more than 40 staff in New York and San Francisco.

Some critics find it a contradiction - a mass market dedicated to niche products - but Kalin says: “Etsy is a distribution platform for any kind of content that isn’t mass produced … not just craft-based, it might include music.”

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Badoo, a social networking website which offers users the chance to pay to be popular while banning all advertising, is set to launch into an increasingly crowded UK market.

At the moment, Badoo is a relatively unknown web brand. However, Google recently rated it number two on its “fastest rising” list - behind the iPhone and ahead of Facebook - in its annual report based on the most popular web searches. Read the rest of this entry »

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In a deal that will connect two of the largest Internet services, MySpace, the social network owned by the News Corporation, will announce on Wednesday that it is teaming up with Skype, the Internet telephone service owned by eBay. Read the rest of this entry »

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