Fiction Folks Mash And Make Money At StoryMash.com

Now, this really got my attention. Probably because I have a flare for fiction. A new social community called StoryMash, for collaboration, constructive criticism and a place to experiment and discover different writing styles is mashing up fiction readers and writers together.

StoryMash is a place where fiction folks start new stories, continue existing stories, or take a story in a different direction by adding a chapter to its middle! All the while earning money for every chapter they publish on StoryMash. If you are a reader, you can vote for your favorite chapters and choose how you want the story to continue. After reading a chapter you can select from among multiple followup chapters. And while reading a chapter if you have a great idea on what should happen next, you can register and submit a followup chapter!

The idea is similar to Helium where writers are paid from $20 to $200 for each article selected by their partner publishers. The difference is that with StoryMash, you pay yourself for each work you publish on StoryMash depending on the number of votes you get for your story.

Here is how it works:

If you're a fiction writer and want the world to know about your work, you will post your story to StoryMash.com. Then, other authors can add follow-up, or even middle chapters to existing chapters written by others. Branching chapters compete with each other based on the vote ranking of registered readers. Eventually, the best storylines will evolve into the most entertaining, and profitable storytelling possible.

The whole idea is a a collaborative system of user generated content where StoryMash provides a fair contract for writers; writers keep their copyright, and grant StoryMash a non-exclusive license so that StoryMash can adapt and possibly resell combined works. Plus, all authors are paid over 50% of all revenue made by the content they publish.

There are also periodic writing contests, and this February, over $500 in prizes will be given away. So start posting on StoryMash by share your creative writing with the world, and earning some cool cash.

Have fun!

Next2Friends Launches Beta And Connects Friends Next To Friends

Do you want your friends to be next to you? Next2friends is a new social community that's now on beta version until late March 2008 and limited to 250, 000 users during the 3-month beta period. The social site allows friends to stay connected to each other by taking advantage of mobile phone tools. It's got some amazing features that will get you attracted from the word "go".

Here are just a few:

Once you create a profile at Next2friends.com, not only can you make friends online but the site's Intelligent Proximity matching will send you updates on the Next2friends users that you passed throughout the day that share your interests.

Here's how it works: You set up a Next2Friends profile detailing all your likes, dislikes, quirks and everything that makes you who you are. Then, as you move about in the real world, if you have the Next2Friends software loaded onto your Bluetooth enabled mobile device, Next2Friends will automatically collect and match your data to other Next2Friends users you came into close proximity with. When you next sign into your account you'll receive notification of all the people you passed throughout the day who share your likes, dislikes, and yes, even your quirks.

With the Ask-A-Friend feature, you can also get a friend's advice on a pair of shoes you like to buy while you are shopping by sending them a photo and asking their opinion. With the Live Streaming Video, you can broadcast live events from any capable mobile device or webcam to your family and friends wherever they are in the world. They can watch the event in real-time with you, as it happens. The idea is for you to capture moments and share them with your friends with live video streaming while living in the real world.

But, doesn't the whole idea of the social networking startup seem like you don't have your privacy as it could be a way for people to track you throughout your day? Wouldn't that make you feel like someone's probably watching you?

Professional Networking at Neurona.it

Neurona.it is a free virtual community created to promote networking among professionals and academics of the marketing and sales arena. So, it's got the feel of LinkedIn and perhaps a step up from LinkedIn and a focus more on business than Facebook.

The social business site is a network tool that promises to help you forge new professional contacts as well as expand your personal and professional network. Like other business networks, you can organize your contacts, set privacy filters, send email and join groups. Neurona has over 100 professional groups to choose from including Studying and Working Abroad, Services Marketing, and Food & Agrimarketing.

Again, Neurona.it is not about selling services or products… it is about people. Neurona.it is about facilitating your network with fellow professionals, and helping you to get the advice or assistance you need.

The social networking site is designed in three language versions namely Italian, Spanish and English with over 1 million current users.

SocialSplash Uses Splash Points to Buy Users?

Are you a social networker? In order words, do you use social networks such as Facebook? Myspace? Bebo? Is your answer, yes and yes?! Not surprised! They are the largest social media sites today ringing the major buzzword s~o~c~i~a~l n~e~t~w~o~r~k~i~n~g.

Social sites as I like to call them have been around for quite some time now, and have all been competing to earn a place in the social media market. They've introduced interesting features and concepts that attract users and generate more revenue for their efforts.

But here comes SocialSplash - a new kid in the block. The new social site offers something no other social networking site offers. As the name 'splash' suggests, the site splashes users with "gifts" such as mp3 players and other electronics, etc when they earn "Splash Points".

In other words, whatever you do on the site, like uploading photos, creating a blog or a group, or even using the forums, you get Splash Points, and the more you collect, the better, because when you grab a good number of points you can get a gift from their Splash Store. SocialSplash also allows users to play flash games while chatting with your friends, create funny pictures using the great option of SplashPix.

So can your loyalty to Facebook or Myspace be purchased by SocialSplash's Splash Points?

Tadinky Launches and Invites Members Suggestions

Tadinky.com, the latest lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, announced today the beta launch of it's new Wiki-style website, opening the door to innovative changes suggested by its members.

The social site's founders are hoping to avoid the mistakes of social giants such as MySpace, Friendster and Facebook that have "all had their limitations, as proven by disgruntled members, while refusing to implement any changes or ideas offered by their members." For their business 'their customers (users) are always right'. Thus, they have welcomed suggestions for improvement of the site. Sounds like a humble beginning, huh?

Tadinky is launched in beta form as a stripped-down version of a standard social networking website while awaiting the first qualified suggestion. The new website has the usual features of social networks such as profiles, photos, blog, email, instant messaging, etc. The site currently has 22 members, 6 friends, 2 blog entries and 1 comment. Unfortunately, it has no traffic rank yet from Alexa.

About Tadinky
Tadinky, a part of Dreamry, Inc., is the latest lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, networking with like-minded people, and creating changes that would have an immediate impact. By integrating web profiles, instant messaging, e-mail, music streaming, music videos, photo galleries, and member blogs, Tadinky has created a connected and responsive community. Tadinky will continue to evolve with new features and exciting changes.

Via: TheOpenPress

MC Hammer To Launch Video Sharing Site Called DanceJam.com

Former rapper MC Hammer, is readying the launch of a new social website, which would be similar to Youtube.com, the leading online video sharing site, or is it meant to compete with Youtube?

The site called dancejam.com, would offer users a place to watch and post dance videos, since we can't touch it, we can watch and feel it "online". According to SoundSlam, Hammer (real name Stanley Burrell) and his partners have reportedly complied 100 gigabytes of dance footage which will be used to launch the site in mid January. The site will host head-to-head dance competitions, and also give viewers tips on how to perform their favorite dance moves.

Last February, MC Hammer visited the youtube offices, as part of his interests in launching a video sharing site. You can watch the video below.



According to HipHopGalaxy, it was reported that James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research claims that Hammer could find it difficult getting people away from YouTube, which listed 1.7 million dance videos last month alone.

Well, YouTube users will have to decide what they want, and if they "can't touch this", maybe they can dance this.

Will the White House Be Housing Social Networks in 2008?

Who said social networks would not be allowed into the White House in 2008? If you are not aware, a few U.S. Presidential Candidates are already using this new social media to connect their supporters together.

Earlier this month, the Republican Candidate Rudy Giuliani launched a social network called Team Rudy. Other candidates are using the social media for their various campaigns also. See Barack Obama, John McCain amongst others. Now, you can share your Ron Paul love with other supporters at RonsPeople.com

As with any social network, you can post music, videos, pictures and more to provide the world with more assurances of your Ron Paul love. (And you can't miss how “EVOL” in “revolution” is highlighted) Read it backwards and you get "LOVE"!

One unique feature of Ron's social campaign site is that it allows supporters to create multiple user profiles so you can get a handle on your privacy. You might wonder what you would have to hide from other supporters, but it's your choice.

Unfortunately, nothing seems spectacular beyond the standard social networking fare of messaging and so on, but this one is going to be driven solely by content and the true ability to network with others who share your common cause.

We'll see if social networks will stay at the White House come next year or if it's just a means to an end.

(Via Mashable)