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Miley Cyrus Quits Twitter Over Liam Hemsworth Cheating Scandal
Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Miley Cyrus quits Twitter in a huff again. Miley quits the social networking site over recent reports, cover stories, and rumors that not only did her fiance Liam Hemsworth cheat on her with January Jones, but also that they called off their wedding.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 7, 2013) - Tango, the all-in-one social networking app, announced today it had recently passed 100 million members registered across the multiple platforms and devices it supports. Tango's mission is to connect people with the most rich and meaningful experiences, and to mark the occasion, the company unveiled brand new features that continue to illustrate how combining high quality communication services with compelling content helps to differentiate Tango from other services.
"I'm proud that Tango's vision of blending communication with engaging content for the mobile space has surpassed this great milestone. By including great features like games, music, animations, avatars, eCards, and photo editing, Tango has truly transformed into a true social networking app and content platform, changing the way people all over the world interact," said Uri Raz, CEO of Tango.
Tango's new updates include:
New Design InterfaceTango video calls will now take advantage of using the entire screen giving users more meaningful interactions with family and friends. In addition, the design will also surface all of the content available on Tango that can be used during calls and texts that make any communication more fun and memorable.
iPad OptimizedIn combination with the new design, Tango will run on the iPad's native screen resolution and tap into the device's more powerful processor to give people high quality video calls on the full tablet screen. For the first time, Tango will be available in the iPad AppStore.
New Content Including Games and Surprises (in-call animations)To make any Tango interaction feel more fun and engaging, the classic game Reversi is launching to bring the total to seven free games that users can play during calls on Tango. In addition, users can send new Tango Surprises, animations that play in calls or texts that bring something unique and special to the conversation.
Photo-Editing for iPhone UsersIn partnership with the Aviary photo-editing app, Tango iPhone users can now customize photos with filters, text and more before sending them to friends and family.
Tango can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store and the iTunes App Store by going to http://install.tango.me.
About TangoTango, the leading all-in-one social communication service, enables you to connect with friends and stay closer to family in a way that is easy, spontaneous, fun and fits the moment. Tango allows you to send free text messages, play games, and make free phone calls and video calls with those you care about. Tango works on iPhones, iPod touch, hundreds of Android phones and Windows Phone devices, as well as tablets and PCs, and provides high quality experience over 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi.More than 100 million people in 212 countries already love using the service.
Founded in September 2009, Tango has raised over $87M from leading venture capital firms and top individual investors. Download the Tango application for free in the iTunes App Store, Google Play Store, and the Tango website, http://www.tango.me.Tango is based in Mountain View, California.
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Tango(TM) Surpasses 100 Million Users and Celebrates With New Features
The social-networking startup adds new ways for users to communicate while also trying to make some money off the app.
Path 3.0 introduces private messaging.
The social-networking app Path, debuted a major upgrade today, adding on private messages, stickers, and the "Shop." The company says the goal is to boost personalized communication between users, but it looks like Path is also working to monetize the app.
The company describes its objective with private messaging in a blog post today -- the messages are not supposed to be like text messages or Facebook or Twitter posts, but rather aim to make users feel like they're truly interacting with friends.
"When we speak with friends, share a joke, a quiet word, or a conversation over drinks, there is so much more than words that pass between us," the blog post says. "How can a technology hope to recreate our unspoken language?"
What Path has done to try to achieve this goal is make the messages available in several forms, including text, voice, location, stickers, songs, books, movies, photos, and videos.
Users can also send stickers to their friends, which like emoticons, can visually show how one feels. This is where Path gets into monetizing its app. Each user gets two free sticker packs designed by artists David Lanham, Hugh MacLeod, and Richard Perez. If users want more stickers, they can buy them in the "Shop." According to The Next Web, packs of around a dozen stickers go for $1.99 a pop.
Before today, Path's most recent update was in December. Path 3 is available for both iOS and Android devices and comes in 19 languages.
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Despite hitting one billion users, Facebook faces a battle for user attention against niche social networks, according to one UK commentator. New Media Knowledge caught up with Cathy Pittham, Managing Director Europe for communications consultants Racepoint Group, to learn more. By Chris Lee.
In October 2012 Facebook announced one billion active members of their hugely popular social networking site. This was a significant milestone but for a lot of people, it is in fact niche interest networks, rather than the generic ones, that are becoming a more attractive way of interacting with people and content that matter to them. Thats the view of Cathy Pittham, Managing Director Europe for communications consultants Racepoint Group.
Pittham believes that Facebook introduced the broadest demographic to social networks and remains somewhat of a de facto standard for the industry. But social networks are no longer in the early-adopter stage, user expectations are also changing and a one-size fits all approach now has limited appeal as consumers and business social network users become more sophisticated and have greater expectations of how networks fulfill their specific needs, she argues.
Its all about what am I interested in today. This is going to drive the future evolution of social networking in both consumer and business to business environments, Pittham told NMK. The proliferation of mobile devices smart phones and tablets that allow people to connect anywhere -has driven engagement in social networks on an unprecedented scale. Anyone cultivating a community or indeed new social technology is now focused on the mobile interface and what content will engage social users on the move.
Pittnam says that what made social networking sites so exciting for consumers in the first place is the immediate ability to interact; to comment, respond, express a point of view in an unfettered environment. Now we are moving on to phase two of social networking, Pittham argues.
Brands have been eager to maximise the original opportunity to engage with potential customers, but may have failed to understand what drives consumers to connect over the longer term, she said. Brand noise on social sites is in danger of being as off-putting as unsolicited marketing and advertising is in the offline world.
Generating apathy towards the commercialisation of social networks, combined with the increasing sophistication of users who are now beginning to understand the power of searching for and identifying the content and engagement that is specifically tailored to them will drive the growth of niche social networks, according to Pittham. She calls this the long tail of the social networking business.
Niche social networking sites will develop over the next few years to cover an extraordinary range of interest areas, from knitting groups to communities of professional physicians. From the user perspective, niche social networking sites offer quicker access to the information users are seeking, deeper engagement with like-minded folk and better-targeted functionality than that bigger sites currently do, she added. So diverse sites like Ravelry will give you all the information about knitting youll ever need or for the more social philanthropic, Care2, a site that connects different types of activists interested in a range of issues, from all over the world.
Not all of this new generation of network will experience Instagram-like adoption, although the monetisation of that success has still to be evidenced, Pittham said, but the potential for these sites and a more sophisticated business model around commercialisation is probably unstoppable.
Were going to see some interesting new opportunities and challenges from the use of the data created by these communities, she continued. Who will own it and how can it be used? Imagine the value of the data for example, that Nike has collected with its Nike+ Fuelband initiative details of our diets, exercise regimens, health. I can imagine a few health insurance firms, health supplement manufacturers who might be interested in that?
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Niche is the “Future of Social Networks”: Interview with Racepoint Group