Category: Blog
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Your Social Network Is A Real Social Benefit
When Valerie Elmore saw a dog run out on a local road and get hit by a car, she did what anyone would do. She gathered the dog up and drove straight to a nearby animal hospital. Unfortunately, the dog died, and Elmore turned to Nextdoor, a local social network, to find out whether anyone…
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People Love Taking Selfies, Hate Seeing Them
PeepSo comes with a ton of features. We spent months building and testing add-ons that allow for video uploads and custom profiles, groups and moods. And in the end it all comes down to selfies.
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Revealing Location Data Doesn’t Need To Make Your Members Nervous
For about a month at the end of 2016, Transport for London – the body responsible for managing the London Underground, conducted an interesting experiment. It tracked the mobile phones of passengers traveling through the center of the city. Gizmodo has managed to acquire the data that TfL gathered — and it has some valuable…
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Fishbrain Shows Social Network Builders How To Hook Members
In general, networks like Facebook and Instagram are sharing platforms — they’re super broad. And when you’re posting about your passion, it’s irrelevant to many of your friends.
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When Two Local Social Networks Go To War, Only One Can Survive
“Nobody in the office is crying,” Matthew Boyes told Techcrunch after the announcement that he had sold his UK company Streetlife to the American firm Nextdoor. The US-based local social network had closed a “multi-million pound acquisition” to buy its rival’s assets. None of Streetlife’s staff will follow the user data to the new owner…
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What Lego Can Teach You About Building A Social Network
If your private social network caters to children, you’ve got some new competition. Lego, the plastic brick and caltrop manufacturer, has launched LegoLife, an app-based social network for iOS and Android devices. And if your network doesn’t cater to children, you’ve got an example of the sort of thought that goes into adapting a private…
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Facebook Drops Personalization On Its Social Network
Facebook has recently announced a number of updates to Trending, a feature that shows topics currently popular on the platform. Users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and India have been able to see Facebook trends since 2014. On the Web, they appear in the top right corner, and on mobile, the trending topics…
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PeepSo – WordFilter Plugin
Filter out any kind of unwanted language. WordFilter plugin gives your community peace of mind.
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How To Fight Trolls Ruining Your Private Social Network
Paul Jun destroyed a wedding. He brought together a gang of friends, waited for the right moment then charged into the ceremony and began smashing things up… and killing the guests. The wedding took place on World of Warcraft between two players who had met and matched up in real life, and Paul was engaging…
