Smart video search engine Smivi is introducing a slate of new features in its upgrade to Smivi 2.0.

6 months ago, Smivi launched a smart video search engine. The original Smivi had video search results crawled from all over the web—YouTube, ESPN, CNN and virtually any other website that hosts video content.

The flipside of Smivi 2.0 is a social experience. Not only can users find and watch videos, users will be able to share those videos with their friends and followers. Users will now be able to socialize with friends—or anyone, really—by following them, commenting on videos and even chatting with them in real-time.

Smivi is now more than just a video search engine. It’s a platform for people to search, share, and watch videos. Search is one component of the entire experience.

“What we’re trying to do with Smivi is provide users with the best search, social, and viewing experience for videos. Smivi 2.0 is a huge step forward for us,” says Danny Witters, founder of Smivi.

Along with these additional features, the new site comes with a redesign. From the homepage to the video player, the site looks and feels different.

“We focused on improving the user’s overall interactive experience. The new site is a lot more user friendly,” says Danny Witters.

To learn about Smivi 2.0 in more detail, click here.

Media Contact: press(at)smivi(dot)com

Using highly anticipated and innovative technologies, “Glabber will advance the internet into Web 3.0and change the way people think about and use the internet,” says co-founder William Reid.

Fellow co-founder Charles Gindi adds, “To fully explain Web 3.0 would be to give away all of our secrets, but we can tell you a little of what we are working on now.”

Many people still have apprehension about trusting the internet because of the abundance of false and misleading information, where most often you know very little about the people and websites who say it. To change this Charles says, “Glabber will release a unique Web 3.0 Application that brings a high level of trustworthiness and credibility to everything you see online and the motivation behind it.” The uses for this technology are endless, and will assist in alleviating many problems that plague the internet today by decreasing the time people spend looking through incorrect or misleading information, minimizing malicious content, and giving people the power and control to have their voice heard.

Major search engines basically have a monopoly and determine how and even if people can find your business. Glabber’s technologies will include a Web 3.0 Search Engine, that uses exclusive algorithms which provide superior search results, ensuring that even if you have a small business – you will be seen, without SEO manipulation, huge popularity, or already being a multinational corporation.

Shopping online is generally considered somewhat boring and dull compared to shopping in the real world. Glabber will make shopping online into a more entertaining experience by utilizing a Web 3.0 E-commerce technology to create a new and exciting way of shopping online, and at the same time greatly boosting visibility and sales for small businesses worldwide.

Charles says, “Glabber will bring about Web 3.0 by implementing some very important changes to how the internet functions – making it significantly more like the real world.”

Glabber, a privately held company based in New York City is empowering people to take control of and change their world. To become part of the Glabber Web 3.0 social networking movement please go to http://glabber.com and to learn more about Glabber please go to http://glabber.com/about

Xobni, the leader in email and relationship management, today introduces the availability of SmartrTM Contacts for iPhone. This announcement comes off the heels of the launch of Smartr Contacts for Android and Smartr Inbox for Gmail late last year, when tens of thousands of users requested to be notified when the iPhone product was ready for download. All Smartr products are free and available for download immediately at Xobni.com, and iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Chrome, Firefox and Safari app stores.

Smartr Contacts is a free app now available for iPhone that brings the ultimate in relationship management to your phone. The Smartr Cloud automatically extracts all contacts from email data (currently Outlook or Gmail), as well as data from social networks, and makes them easily searchable. A complete profile is created for each contact, including a photo, job title, phone numbers, company details, email history, common contacts and info from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. All contacts are ranked by importance, not alphabetically, so the most important people are at the top.

Today’s announcement puts Xobni products (Xobni and Smartr-branded) on all major platforms – Gmail/Google Apps and Outlook for email, and Android, BlackBerry and iPhone for mobile. These products aim to improve the way you find and manage your contacts and relationships by discovering all the people you’ve ever emailed, called or SMS’d and instantly provides a full profile for each contact by leveraging the Smartr Cloud solution. Once the product is downloaded, Xobni automatically displays each person’s photo, job title, phone numbers and contact info, company details and updates from social networks. These rich profiles help you better understand your relationship with each contact, how you know them, when you last communicated, and whom you know in common.

“(Smartr) is a nice productivity add-on for Gmail – but the real power comes in the mobile app. The interface is clean and simple – a simple search box and some rotating thumbnail images of people. In that sense, it’s no longer a contacts “list,” but instead a database. And given we are usually looking for someone when we open our Contacts, it’s definitely a smarter way to manage more than 8,000 people” wrote Sam Diaz for ZDNet about Smartr Contacts at launch of the Android app.

To see a video of the Smartr Contacts for iPhone app in action, visit http://vimeo.com/smartr/iphone or http://www.xobni.com.

The new QWiPS (www.qwips.com) apps is available for download from the Apple app store – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/qwips/id473262882?mt=8 And MC Hammer has already sent a QWiPS message. http://qwips.com/4j5zx8

The premise of QWiPS is simple: We all know the billions of messages traded and shared via the social web every day. However, the large majority of those messages are text, photos, or videos – NOT audio. Right now, the social web is silent.

That’s odd right? Think for a moment about the power of voice and sound. The first thing a new baby hears is usually the sound of their parents’ voice. Every day, billions of voice mails are recorded – messages to boyfriends, girlfriends, wives, husbands, co-workers, friends.

What if we were able to add voice to all the social snippets that we are sharing today on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks? That’s the target of QWiPS new social voice platform.

Using the QWiPS app:

- You can spontaneously create 30-second audio QWiPS and tag them to any static image or text, Facebook or Twitter post, bringing those messages to life with emotion, personality, and authenticity.

- You can tell the story behind a photo in their own voice, share voice comments, jokes and anecdotes.

- With effects, you can alter your voice message to sound like a robot, chipmunk, etc.

- With themes, you can easily create a voice eCard and share it with your friends and family.

- Celebrities, musicians, athletes, brands and marketers can utilize QWiPS to stay in touch – via voice – with their social audiences and fans.

- Friends, colleagues, and family can easily respond to your messages via QwipBacks – creating a threaded, voice conversation via the social web.

Cupple, the world’s first private sharing mobile application designed specifically for two people in a relationship is now available as a FREE download for iPhone and iPod touch.

Cupple reduces the lost contact between two people and creates a private mobile sharing space. It raises people’s confidence of when and how to share on mobile and eliminates the indecision of broadcasting your experiences to wider social networks.

‘Sharing’ is intuitive and personal, so users can quickly exchange private content such as photos, location and messages with each other and tag the places they have been, or plan to take each other.  Shares are free to send once the app has been downloaded with no hidden costs.

Cupple Founder Tim Allison says: “The idea for Cupple came from looking at my relationship and my friends and the way we actually use mobile. We’ve created a platform for people to express their moments with each other whilst keeping it completely private to the outside world and away from other social networks.”

Allison continues, “Cupple is as much for two people who are starting a relationship as it is for a pair that have been living together for years. Cupple is a romantic idea but also very practical for two people.”

Cupple may prove to be the must-have App for people in a relationship looking for a fun and fresh way to use mobile with each other.

About Cupple
Cupple is the private sharing mobile application designed specifically for two people in a relationship. Cupple is a technology startup founded in Summer 2011 by Tim Allison and Mark Hill. The company is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Frendz LLC is pleased to announce the addition of status post commenting to BuzzE for iPhone giving users a simple convenient way to share and comment on other user’s thoughts of the day. The original version of BuzzE offered users a friendly way to break the ice and meet people in their neighborhood or around the world with chat, media exchange, and ice breaker games as well as a way to find local social events. Version 2.4 expands on this basic premise and allows users to post messages, audio, and video to other user’s status post comments.

This extends the basic idea of BuzzE as a way to interact with new and old friends on an individual basis and opens up group interactions. A status comment is no longer just a status comment. It becomes a forum to share ideas, pictures, and even audio and video with a wide range of BuzzE users. This moves BuzzE from the realm of a social networking tool to a true mobile community.

With this offering BuzzE provides users with a simple straight forward way to interact and share their status with other users without the excessive complexity of the latest Facebook offering. In addition as always user’s personal and profile information is completely private except to their friends.

Commenting on the new release Frendz LLC managing partner Brett Rosen said “This seemed like a natural evolution for BuzzE. Some of our users have jokingly called us ‘Facebook for Strangers’. This seemed like an opportunity to give people just that a simple straightforward forum for people to share their ideas and lives while making new friends.”

With version 2.4 BuzzE offers the most complete proximity based social networking experience for iPhone. The team continues to build on that success and the BuzzE community should expect new and exciting features and enhancements in the months ahead.

With the release of Facebook’s new Timeline profile layout only days away, FreeTimelineCovers.net launches to provide a range of quality Facebook Covers free of charge.

Free Timeline Covers is an application that allows users to search through a database of Facebook Covers that are organized by tags, decide which cover to use, and finally install the Facebook cover. The site launches with the ability to not only install a cover manually by following a few easy steps but has also created an auto-uploader that interfaces with Facebook’s new Open Graph API, making installing a Facebook cover very easy.

The creators of Free Timeline Covers enter the scene with an impressive history since the Myspace days by offering Myspace Layouts and to most recently offering Twitter Backgrounds for Twitter users. “We know what users want, they want access to a large amount of free covers and most importantly they want to be able to express themselves through the cover that they have so carefully selected. On top of all that, this process must be easy and fast,” say the owners.

While Free Timeline Covers has just launched, the site already has a range of categorized Facebook Covers including artistic, celebrity, colorful, holiday, nature, pattern, simple and more. They are also proud to announce that in just a short 24-hour period, they have already served over 500 users by allowing them to express themselves through timeline covers. The creators are excited with the new Facebook Timeline profile as it allows users to express themselves through a single image and are proud to be serving the Facebook Community

HD Publishing Group, America’s first online people search, has launched SpyPeeps, the missing piece in social networking developed for those who really want to follow someone and get the whole story.

It’s no secret that everyone has secrets. SpyPeeps permits users to legally spy to dig up the dirt on anyone, without getting caught! SpyPeeps is like a personal digital reality show that exposes the events in people’s lives. SpyPeeps combines both offline data with online behavior.

SpyPeeps searches the web, social networks, over 1.1 Billion consumer records, court filings, address and phone number changes, and even personal information like a gift wish list. SpyPeeps delivers only the information desired, only on those users want to snoop on, and in total privacy where no one will know someone is watching.

Jerry M. Klein, CEO of HD Publishing Group said, ”We have developed a unique patent-pending, totally anonymous process that answers that question ‘what are they hiding’ by monitoring online and physical location… all in real time! Simply type in the name of the person you are looking for, select an exact match for your search based on age, location, and other available information, and start following. You can also use the easy “friends and contacts” import feature, just select the friends you want to follow. Let’s face it – watching other people’s lives is a national pastime. It may be because you are just curious, or would feel safer knowing more about some of your friends, contacts, neighbors, and associates. This is consistent with the trend on social networks towards communities as opposed to a large quantity of contacts. SpyPeeps fulfills the desire to find out more about a selected group…. a great deal more.”

SpyPeeps is a totally secret and completely legal source for the answers to all those questions they won’t answer. An optional feature permits SMS alerts on selected contacts’ activities. SpyPeeps is a personal internet private eye.

Asvathaa Pte. Ltd., a Singapore based game development company has recently launched Karma Kingdom, an exciting quest driven online island game that can be played on Facebook. The tagline of the game, “Create Your Better World”, best encapsulates the game on many levels. From an innovative non-linear user layout, an intrinsic positive message, to the opportunities afforded users to give to charities; the game is designed to lay new ground and direction for social games.

Asvathaa’s intention is to bring to the market a new generation of original games based on the mythologies and stories from Asian cultures. Initially derived from 5000+-year-old heritage of the Indus valley, these interactive experiences will have a direct impact and positive influence in the way young people learn, play, socialize and participate in their communities and view the world.

Speaking of the game, Ashok Desai, Founder and CEO of Asvathaa, said,” Karma Kingdom is a social game that utilizes Indian Mythology, which the wider Indian Diaspora will find familiar but at the same time one that the global audience won’t get lost in. It took us a year to develop this game as we wanted to provide for a fun and entertaining medium for a broad global audience across a wide demographic and came up with layout and design that will appeal to all.”

Karma Kingdom is all about creating a better world by the players. They have to find shelter and food for their initial citizens and later build-up their community. As the game progresses, users can buy extra items/ elements to make their community more self-dependent like hospitals, schools, restaurants and so on.

The game combines contemporary lessons with Indian mythology characters. For example, in the first rule of order, Lord Ganesha tells the users, to see his/her physical needs. Soon the players build a village, where food and shelter is available to anyone who asks. Then, Lord Ganesha directs the users to Lord Hanuman who guides players to take care of the community’s social and spiritual needs and build good relationships with friends and neighbors.

All of the team members have found the development process a personal journey. Aaron Matthew, Head of Game Development said of the project, “It brings my love of eastern philosophy to the traditional social game audience.” He added, “I wanted to create a fun game that leads to social good, and Karma Kingdom is exactly that.”

The game play mechanism is user friendly that casual and social gamers globally will be familiar with. The game also has a unique day and night cycle feature. The game will have quests for day time and night time cycles where the users can complete the full day and night cycle in 15 minutes of the game.

Interestingly, the game also provides a unique connection between the virtual world and the real world, in a way it helps in improving the real world as you go about playing the game. Asvathaa has also dedicated a portion of their income to be donated to non-profit charities around the world. About this, Ashok says, “we want to offer a personal CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) platform for every individual as the desire to give back exists in each one of us”.

We are currently also setting up a development center in New Delhi. We want to bring to market a wave of social games that will encourage a brand new demographic to play these games. Currently we have 6-7 ideas that are in the early stages of development and are also planning to bring Karma Kingdom to mobile platforms.

Asvathaa Pte. Ltd. has chosen a multi-shore approach to developing the games and has offices in USA, Singapore and India.

Play the Game on Facebook at: http://bit.ly/kkapp
Visit the Karma Kingdom Fan Page at: http://bit.ly/KKpage
Karma Kingdom on Twitter: http://bit.ly/kktweet or or @karmakingdom
Karma Kingdom on the web: http://www.karmakingdom.com

Asvathaa on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Asvathaa
Asvathaa on Twitter: http://twitter.com/asvathaa or @asvathaa
Asvathaa on the web: http://www.asvathaa.com

For Press Inquiries Contact:
Ashok Desai
ashok(dot)desai(at)asvathaa(dot)com
+1-469-222-9263 (US)

SocialPlusApp.com launched a unique social networking browser app, ‘Social Plus Free: Social Networking Browser’ and ‘Social Plus Pro: Social Networking Browser’, the two versions of Social Plus app for all Android devices 2.1 and above on Google Android market. Social Plus app is a social networking browser allowing users to access their Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Tumblr & Google Buzz accounts in one Social Plus app. Social Plus app can be used on 465 different Android devices globally.

Download Social Plus Free: Social Networking Browser for Android:
https://market.android.com/details?id=social.plus.free.com

Social Plus app lets you manage all of your social networking accounts from one platform. Users have to sign into your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Buzz and/or Google+ accounts, and they’ll all start streaming to Social Plus app live. Users can browse all of their social feeds right alongside one another by just tapping the icons to switch views.

Social Plus app eliminates need for having different applications for each social networking platform. Social Plus app reduces the hassle for managing the social networking accounts. Social Plus app will enable users to manage and view multiple social media feeds using one Social Plus Browser.

Social Plus app is currently available only on Android platform. This unique Android application has been designed for Android 2.1 and above devices and is currently available for download, both free and paid versions on the Google Android Market. Social Plus app has a very simple user interface thus making it very user friendly and easy for use.

SocialPlusApp.com will soon launch Social Plus: Social Networking Browser on iPhone and iPad. Social Plus app will also integrate more social networks in their next update. Social networks like LinkedIn along with Chinese, Japanese and South Korean social networks like Weibo, Renren, Nate, Mixi and others. The update will also enable photo sharing on Facebook and other exiting features.

Secured HTTPS links to do download Social Plus App:

Social Plus Free: Social Networking Browser:
https://market.android.com/details?id=social.plus.free.com

Social Plus Pro: Social Networking Browser
https://market.android.com/details?id=facebook.com.google.com

Follow Social Plus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SocialPlusApp.com