AOL
AOL is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations and offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services. The AOL Developer Network offers tools that help developers and publishers engage, grow, and profit from their online communities. Learn more at dev.aol.com.
Buddy Media
Buddy Media helps large media companies and marketers develop, build, manage, and promote social media applications. It does so through a powerful rapid development platform and the Buddy Media Ad Network, which provides advertisers an easy way to reach millions of users of the leading social networks. Buddy Media's clients include Anheuser-Busch, Priceline, HBO, Microsoft, Time Warner, FedEx and Readers Digest and is backed by Softbank Capital, European Founders Fund, GreyCroft Partners, Bay Partners and leading internet visionaries Peter Thiel, Mark Pincus, Howard Lindzon, James Altucher, Brian Bedol and others.
Clearspring
Clearspring is the market's leading widget syndication, tracking and monetization service, used by the world's largest media companies, advertisers, and widget developers. Clearspring helps publishers and marketers extend their reach to the leading social networks, start pages and blogs and to respond to growing consumer demand for a more personalized desktop, Web, and mobile experience.
Dash Navigation
Dash Navigation connects people to the information that empowers them in their cars. The company's first product, the Dash Express, is the first personal navigation system with two-way, Internet connectivity. It's the smartest way to get from A to B - and get information about everything in between.
Friendster
With more than 70 million members worldwide, Friendster is a leading global online social network. Friendster focuses on helping people stay in touch and discover new people and things important to them. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Friendster is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, and DAG Ventures.
Hook Mobile
Hook Mobile offers an open platform for social media applications to easily extend functionality to mobile. With only a phone number, Hook connects you to users via MMS, "multimedia" messaging; allowing you to send images and video. Hook manages all aspects of transcoding, delivery, billing and carrier relations.
Samasource
Samasource, a for-profit/non-profit social enterprise based in Silicon Valley, aims to harness the world's untapped talent through socially responsible outsourcing. We are creating an ecosystem for fair trade in services by launching the world's first responsible outsourcing label on oDesk, and have worked with major social networks to provide training for young developers in low-income countries in Africa. Our for-profit is focused on developing a marketplace for buying and selling business process and IT outsourcing services from socially responsible providers.
Social Times
Founded by Nick O'Neill, The Social Times was created as a way to leverage social technology to build the social technology industry. We serve as a centralized location to discover news and interact with others in the community, while furthering awareness of the products and companies that shape the social web.
SocialMedia
SocialMedia Networks connects advertisers with developers by enabling application audiences to be targeted through its SocialMedia Ad Platform. With over 5,000 applications participating from Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Hi5, SocialMedia Networks provides the largest network for developers to monetize their traffic and advertisers to connect with engaged social audiences.
Wyndstorm Corporation
Wyndstorm Corporation is the ideas-to-revenues New Media company. We deliver customized social media, gaming, online entertainment, and ecommerce solutions with seasoned marketing and strategic business know-how to achieve value-added business results. We offer a platform for launching full-featured social media programs on a turn-key basis.
zembly
zembly lets you easily create and host social applications of all shapes and sizes. Working collaboratively with others on zembly, together you create and publish Facebook apps, OpenSocial apps, meebo apps, iPhone apps, widgets, Google Gadgets, and other social applications, using just your browser and your creativity.
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