<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/grou.png" class="shot2">DIY social network platform <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/grou-ps">GROU.PS</a> has just announced that it

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/app.jpg" width="203" height="101" /> As the ecosystem around iPhone apps continues to explode, the opportunity for advertising and monetizati

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/eco-151x200.jpg" width="151" height="200" />I'm deadpooling <a href="http://www.dotecotld.com/">this</a> .ECO top level domain right now. Not

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/mtv-networks-flux.png" /> MTV Networks has acquired the remaining portion of Social Project that it did not already own. Terms were not di

Flux, the new distributed social network that was created via a partnership between Viacom and Social Project (formerly Tagworld), has been busy since their September launch. Flux is a “distribu

It turns out the rumors of a Viacom investment and partnership with social network Tagworld were accurate. Viacom invested a reported $40 million in the company for a minority stake (Tagworld was prev

This Monday, MTV quietly deployed a Hot or Not competitor called NextorNot. The premise, as with Hot or Not, is simple: users flip through “profiles” of other users (consisting mainly of a

Silicon Valley based Ning and Los Angeles based Flux are “networks of networks” that allow communities to build feature rich social networks with a few clicks. Ning, which launched in 2005

MyLifeBrand is a service that lets user’s aggregate social networking memberships and navigate between them from the one place. MyLifeBrand supports Friendster, LinkedIn, Bebo, Facebook, H15, Orkut,

Chatting it up isn’t the only way to stay social on your mobile phone. GotZapp, a mobile social networking platform from Trivantis, will let you use the Page Zapper to copy profile pages from MySpac

Getting a widget onto a website, whether its a blog or a MySpace page or anything else, is a bit of a pain. Users generally have to copy an embed code, log into their website, and paste it into the ap

TagWorld, the social networking site that launched in late 2005, has been the subject of a lot of speculation lately. Valleywag speculated that the company was in trouble and pointed out that the mana

I’ve been paying a lot of attention to the signals NBC is giving to the market around their IPTV and social networking plans. Most of the other players have fallen into place – Fox with My

San Francisco based Piczo is having a media coming-out party today, with announcements on the current state of the service and key statistics. A few weeks ago CEO Jeremy Verba did the same thing in th

Los Angeles based TagWorld, a social network with nearly 2 million members that is funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is launching a Flash widget platform on Friday at TagWorldWidgets.com. TagWorld Wi

San Francisco based Bebo popped a few bottles of champagne and announced a very healthy $15 million round of financing, led by Benchmark Capital. Bebo is one of the largest and fastest growing social

On Monday, Rojo will launch an interactive news service aimed at Myspace users (and additional social networks in the future). The new product, Nooz, will leverage technologies developed by Rojo but w

AIM Pages, the new AOL Myspace competitor that we’ve been buzzing about for the last couple of weeks, launched this morning at aimpages.com. First impression: The site is clean and organized (so

AOL may be preparing to launch a Myspace-type social network sometime in the next few weeks, says Dave Winer. This went from rumor to “confirmed likely” in posts and comments by Jason Cala

Tagworld, the next generation Myspace competitor, is showing that there is plenty of room for growth in the crowded teen/young adult home page market (previous TechCrunch posts on Tagworld are here).