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Rareview Announces New Year's Resolution Coach

Rareview Interactive recently announced the release of its highly anticipated New Year's resolution website Start a Resolution (www.startaresolution.com). Start a Resolution is a one-of-a-kind concept that aims to help people commit to their New Year's resolutions. The site is completely free to all users and allows them to enter their resolutions and stay on track to meet them. Users are assigned a coach who will help monitor their progress. When the next user signs up, the previous user also becomes a coach and helps the next person achieve their goals. It's a give and take (pay it forward) concept where people help each other reach their objectives. Read the full press release here.

EarthFrisk Launches Meta-Social Hybrid Search Engine
EarthFrisk.Org recently launched the first Meta-Social Hybrid Search Engine. With the motto ''If you can't find it by using this site, it doesn't exist,'' EarthFrisk.org finally fully unleashes the Web. "We've created the first search engine where the community can vote and comment on the very best search results, which are the top searches of Google, MSN's Live and Yahoo, among others, all with less spam," stated Michael Lodispoto, the managing member of EarthFrisk.Org. Find out more about the EarthFrisk tool here.

Rummble Announces Facebook App to Share Travel Spots
Rummble, the location based content discovery service and mobile social network, recently launched a Facebook application to share your favorite places around the world, with your Facebook friends. Joining a handful of useful applications amongst thousands of time eating add-on tools to the popular Facebook service, the Rummble application enables you to easily share your favorite places around the world with all from within your Facebook profile. The Rummble service includes location based content, blogging, photos, status sets and trips so you can see which of friends is going where and when - whether you're at home or on the move. Access the full press release here.

IBM Announces Corporate Social Networking Tool
IBM recently announced the availability of IBM Atlas for Lotus Connections, a corporate social networking visualization and analysis tool. IBM Atlas for Lotus Connections is designed to help organizations maximize their investment in social software by answering questions such as who the key experts are on a given topic, how they are connected, and whom a user's contacts know that they do not. Developed by IBM Research, Atlas has four Web 2.0-based components -- My Net, Find, Reach and Net. These components help users spot the important connections and the relationships between various groups and navigate their personal and corporate networks. Read the entire press release here.

IM-History Announces Free Chat History Service
IM-History, a new company, announced its service that allows users of public instant messaging services to manage contacts and access chat histories on line, for free. Read more about it here.

Thumbplay Brings Ringtones to Qloud
Qloud, a social music service that allows users to listen to music inside of social networks, and Thumbplay, a mobile entertainment content destination company, recently announced a partnership to contextually feature Thumbplay's ringtones throughout each deployment of Qloud's My Music application. This deal will allow users across a range of social networks to discover, purchase and download ringtones to more than 2,000 supported and compatible mobile phones. "We selected Thumbplay as our first mobile entertainment content provider, as it delivers a broad and deep catalog of content that will enable Qloud My Music users to extend their enthusiasm about the social music experience to their cell phones," said Mike Lewis, co-founder of Qloud. "Thumbplay's ability to offer ringtones regardless of users' wireless carrier or mobile phone is consistent with our commitment to connecting consumers with music wherever they want it."
Access the full press release here.

FeedM8 Announces Free News Texting Service
FeedM8, the global leading provider in mobilization and monetization service, recently launched Web-Alerts.com, a free service that monitors the web and sends updates via text messaging. "Web-Alerts is the ideal mobile service," says Allen Lau, President and Co-founder of FeedM8. "It lets you stay fully connected with news that matters to you, even when you're away from a computer, which is vital in an increasingly mobile world." To use Web-Alerts, visit Web-Alerts.com and enter the address of any website or RSS feed. Web-Alerts will automatically monitor the website and alert the user via text message when something new appears, optionally checking for specific keywords. The text message also contains a link to the mobile optimized version of the full story. Read more about it here.

ExactSeek Announces Advanced Search Technology with Searchdaimon PartnerShip
ExactSeek.com, a web search engine committed to providing small and medium-sized businesses with affordable search engine advertising alternatives to pay-per-click, recently announced an exclusive partnership with Searchdaimon AS, a technology company located in Trondheim, Norway that has developed an advanced search technology capable of high speed indexing and search of huge amounts of unstructured data. "ExactSeek has been focused on improving its search technology for several years. Our partnership with Searchdaimon has enabled us to address the fundamental search issues of speed, relevancy and scalability," said Mel Strocen, CEO of Jayde Online, Inc., ExactSeek's parent company. Searchdaimon has long been a participant in the well known search technology environment at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology along with other companies like Google, Yahoo and Fast. Read the entire press release here.

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