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Screen capture of Resident Buddy, a new app released by Rentbits. (The Denver Post | screen capture)

Denver-based Rentbits is rolling out a social networking-like service for apartment dwellers that combines features from Facebook, eVite, HomeAdvisor and Craigslist.

Resident Buddy is an online portal that connects a multifamily community, allowing members to submit repair requests, post items for sale, receive notifications about closures and events and pay rent.

Cornerstone Apartment Services, which manages 70 apartment buildings in downtown Denver, is in discussions to potentially launch the platform for its roughly 3,000 residents.

"This is exactly what I have dreamed about in connecting my residents to our community," said Nicole Hancock, manager of resident relations for Cornerstone. "It's going to be a great way to retain residents. Not even just that, I really am interested in making sure our residents have a great experience while they live with Cornerstone, and they feel a part of the Cornerstone community."

In pitching Resident Buddy, Rentbits chief executive Dan Daugherty said the service can help multifamily communities reduce turnover.

On average, communities lose about half of their residents annually after their leases end, and 60 percent of that can be controlled, he said.

"Some of the ways you can control that are through things like maintenance request transparency," Daugherty said.

The standard procedure for residents right now is to call community managers whenever they have a service issue, such as a leaky faucet.

With Resident Buddy, residents submit the request online or by phone and can see the process through, similar to the Domino's Tracker, which gives consumers updates on their order.

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Individuals with various forms of disability, such as autism and muscular dystrophy, being online or having an avatar can be the first time the person feels they are seen by others as a normal human being, the report said.

The rise of hyper-connectivity, in which people become constantly connected to social networks and streams of information via smartphones, would change the face of British society beyond recognition.

While being part of such a society can increase the pace and turbulence of social change, violations of identity and privacy online continue to cause concern.

It found a person has a number of identities linked to their online persona and as their online and real worlds blur, criminals would exploit the data to steal their identity.

The study, titled Future Identifies: Changing Identities in the UK the Next Ten Years, found that if the changes were ignored could fuel social exclusion and result in communities becoming less cohesive.

The 71-page report was based on 20 separate reviews of a range of areas affected by identity including social inclusion and mobility, education and skills, crime and mental health.

It concluded that the traditional ideas of identity will become less meaningful as boundaries between peoples public and private identities disappear.

This, the report found, would have wide ramifications for government and policymakers.

As people have become accustomed to switching seamlessly between the internet and the physical world, they have begun to use social media to pursue friendships, continue conversations, and make arrangements in a way which dissolves the divide between online and offline, it said.

The consequences of this shift could be profound, the authors suggested, with the possibility that some in society will be left behind.

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Japanese VC firm CyberAgent Ventures has just invested in Taiwan based Fashionguide, a beauty and cosmetics social networking platform.

Straight after funding social food recipe sharing site iCook in Taiwan, Japan based CyberAgent Ventures now funds an undisclosed amount into beauty social networking platform Fashionguide .CyberAgent Ventures set up its office in Taiwan back in October 2011, and since then, funded dating website i-Part, restaurant review website iPeen, as well as social food recipe sharing site iCook.Fashionguideis now the fourth portfolio company of CyberAgent Ventures in Taiwan.

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Fashionguide allows users to post reviews of beauty and cosmetics products. While the website relies a lot on user generated content, it is currently the largest website in this particular niche. According to TheNextWeb , CyberAgent Ventures says that the funds will be used to launch and support a new range of womens lifestyle services. Fashionguide also have plans to expand its reach through its own mobile app, which is already in the works.

CyberAgent Ventures Taiwan based representative Catherine Chang also tells TheNextWeb that theyare interested in services that enhance and add value to the existing online shopping experience for users, often those will involve some sort of social layer.

Social media is also where one of our core competencies lies in terms of our own group businesses and providing this type of know-how is where we believe as a financial backer we can offer valuable resources.

A recent interview that we did with CyberAgent Ventures Beijing CEO, Nobuaki Kitagawa , helped us understand more about their investment philosophies. Fashionguides investment is clearly in line with what CyberAgent Ventures is trying to achieve.

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The concept of identity in Britain will undergo a major change within the next decade as a generation who grew up with smart phones and online profiles enters adulthood, Sir John Beddington said.

The spread of social media and increasing amount of personal information we put online is redefining the way people see themselves and form social groups, a new report published as part of the government's Foresight Programme found.

Speaking as the report was launched on Monday, Sir John said there was an emerging "dichotomy" as the way we communicate and form social groups becomes more web-orientated.

He told BBC Radio 4s Today programme: Hyper-connectivity, the spread of social media and the increase in online personal information are key factors which will influence identity in the next decade.

The generation born, who will have grown up with social networking and with a digital age, is starting to turn into adulthood and at the same time you have an older and more elderly population, which arguably could become partly disfranchised."

The report predicted that having an online presence could become so common that refusal to engage in social networking over the internet "could appear unusual or even suspicious".

There is a "significant need" for lifelong education which would allow as many people as possible to remain employable and socially engaged, it said.

"As an ageing population and older workforce creates changing identities, inequality in digital knowledge and skills, particularly among older workers and the retired elderly, will need to be addressed."

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Elderly people 'disfranchised by social networking'