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"The social networking news keeps tumbling into our inbox...\nFilqz Funded - It's late to the video market, with a name that no one can spell and an interface that only a mother could love.  Nonetheless, Fliqz has raised $2.5M in Series B funding from Mohr, Davidow Ventures.  That's on top of $1 million in angel funding last year.  Fliqz claims to differentiate itself by letting users create video collections, and by offering a widget (\"Fliqzster\") for webmasters that provides free video hosting to all their users. (via)\nFreshBooks-Basecamp - FreshBooks, a really nice online invoicing and time tracking service, will announce tomorrow that they've integrated Basecamp from 37signals.  The integration includes the ability to convert Basecamp to-do lists and time logs into invoices.   \nSwitchPlanet - SwitchPlanet, another new media swapping site, just launched.  Though it's simply and elegantly designed, all these swap sites are going to have trouble reaching critical mass.  After signing up for SaySwap, I know of one tactic that's employed to help things along: relentlessly spam users whenever matches are found.\nYouTube Politics - We were told today that YouTube will be providing a hub for political clips during the run up to the 2008 Presidential Elections.  Facebook and MySpace have both provided political platforms, so this makes sense.  We were told there would be a special YouTube section opening up at youtube.com/youchoose, but that seems to be an empty channel right now.\nTrig.com - Trig, the slick looking social network we covered early in its life, is opening up its doors to everyone tomorrow.  See also our original Trig.com review.\nKaneva - I originally tested Kaneva at the start of 2006, when it was a lackluster MMOG development platform.  As a result, I ignored the tiny bit of buzz it achieved earlier this month.  As it turns out, Kaneva has improved drastically over that time, creating something akin to MySpace meets YouTube meets SecondLife - more mainstream and more consumer-oriented than before.  I really like the direction they're going in.  (Thanks to Csven for the heads up).\nLocalSchools- LocalSchools is a new portal that helps students to find accredited colleges and universities in the US.  It includes a social network, which is why we're covering it, and it should win an award for the most ajaxed up site ever - perhaps they've even overdone it a bit.  Towards the end of my testing, they seemed to be suffering some downtime.  (via)\nParkatMyHouse - This UK-focused service, which the founder contacted us about today, wants to be a kind of \"eBay for private parking spaces\".  ParkatMyHouse could work, especially in London where space is at a premium.  Meanwhile, the niches keep filling up. (video)\nTopix.net - The news aggregator Topix.net reported today that 1 million people have left comments in its forums so far - they're seeing 30,000 comments a day, and the service has been running 15 months.  You don't need to register, so the barrier to entry is actually fairly low.  [via]\nNetvibes Coriander - The online startpage Netvibes started to roll out its Coriander version today, which includes resizable columns, a new theme, the ability to read more entries from RSS feeds and a .Mac mail module.  Log in to your Netvibes account to see the changes, and try dragging the column edges to see that feature in action.\nItzBig - Will soon-to-launch job site ItzBig challenge Jobster and LinkedIn?  We've no idea, but the Austin, Texas-based company has just raised $4M in Series A funding from Rho Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds, according to the venture wires today.\nMingleNow - Events social network MingleNow, which connects people around bars, clubs and restaurants, told us late yesterday that they've struck a deal with Anheuser Busch for a \"Here's to Beer\" promotion.  I seem to remember the \"clink\" feature was already implemented when we first tested the service, but a hookup with a beer company makes sense, since MingleNow's hipster demographic is older than the teens on most other social networks.\nDischorde - We tested out Dischorde, a new music social network, last week.  But while my initial impressions were good, it's a bit Flash-heavy for me and lacking in content right now.  It's also strongly focused on the UK music scene, so its likely to compete with Social Networking Awards nominee Bandwagon.co.uk.\nThe GORB - TheGORB is an email-based reputation system we got invited to today.  Enter an email address and it'll provide you with info about that person's reputation, plus the ability to add comments and ratings for that user.  I don't need to tell you that this will be extremely problematic."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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