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Social Networking Is Dead; Long Live www.e-Deliberation.com!

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --If you want a beautiful birthday cake, you need to do more than just throw the ingredients into the oven. Social networks are like that don't expect more than some half-baked ideas and a pile-up of opinions.

But if you share the vision that the Internet can also be a meeting place where you can work with others to resolve important issues, you will want to check out the site e-Deliberation.com, which is officially launched Monday, Oct. 1, 2012.

e-Deliberation.com Inc. is a Canadian company with head offices in Victoria and secure servers in Montreal. Established in 2010 by Jean-Daniel Cusin, a serial entrepreneur, the mission of eDeliberation is to bring the Internet experience to the next step: enable people globally to mutually connect, deliberate and collaboratively resolve issues that concern them.

e-Deliberation online events come in two versions: Free (public) and Premium (private).

For instance, community groups anywhere in the world can use it for free to deliberate about and resolve an issue they are concerned about.

Private e-Deliberation events are normally retained by organizations who wish to keep the event and its outcomes private or confidential. For instance, a corporation with offices across the country or internationally can convene a strategy-making e-Deliberation event to flesh out its 3 year plan.

The outcome of an e-Deliberation event is a multi-vectored, integrated strategy that comprehensively deals with the issue or challenge that was the focus of the event. This creates a critical mass of persons biased to actually see the strategy succeed.

The e-Deliberation process can accommodate between 15 and up to 80 participants for a given event. These participants work as a whole group as well as in smaller teams, with multiple feedback loops to ensure that no significant idea gets dropped. The process uses a consent-based approach so participants minority views have a chance to be considered.

Mr. Cusin's vision for e-Deliberation is forward thinking - "The events of the past few years have highlighted that when governance systems, be they geo-political or corporate, are controlled by a very few people at the top who are expected to master everything, it's a disaster. The world is too complex for that. Too many knowledge domains, too many stakeholders, jurisdictions, potential impacts If we are to advance as a civilization, we need to leverage the Internet to solve big problems by assembling the right minds and helping them get the job done. That is what we are doing with e-Deliberation."

The e-Deliberation site (https://www.e-deliberation.com) is now accessible globally for people to register and to organize e-Deliberation events for their community of interest.

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Paid social network App.net updates pricing structure, adds monthly plan

Premium social networking site App.netfresh from beating its initial goal of 10,000 paying members by more than 10,000Monday announced changes to its pricing structure. The site hopes this move will grow App.net even more. App.net will now offer a monthly plan, and its $50 yearly membership has been cut by nearly a third.

With Mondays changes, the yearly fee is reduced to $36. Those that want to kick the tires on the service might be interested in App.nets new monthly plan, which sets you back $5 per month.

Now, paying for a social network seems to be a pretty radical idea in the Facebook era. However, App.net founder Dalton Caldwell believes that most social networking users are tired of the advertising that has taken over these types of site sites. In turn, he thinks that people will pay for a service free of ads. App.net was created based on this idea, has no advertising, and is fully member supported.

Users of Twitter might find the way App.net works familiar, as the social network's structure mimics the way the micro-blogging site worksusing hashtags, @ replies, and the like. Twitter users may be who App.net wants to target:Initial backers of App.net were invited to join the service and claim their Twitter username.

App.net appears to be a welcome change from the likes of Facebook and Twitter, both of which seem to have an insatiable desire to sell us just about anything and the desire to use our personal data to do it. At the same time, how many Internet users actually want to pay for something that we can get free just about everywhere else?

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Gnzo Launches a Revolutionary Video-Based Social Networking App for The iPhone

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Today, Gnzo Inc. has announced the launch of their revolutionary, video-based, social networking application called "Gnzo" (pronounced "goon-zow"). Gnzo allows users to upload 6-second video snippets so that you can share them with your social network. Users can see multiple videos from their social network playing back simultaneously, either on their iPhone or on the Gnzo website. Gnzo's proprietary multi-video compression and streaming technology, called "fabric video", allows users to view the playback of thirty to fifty videos simultaneously, on a single screen, providing an unprecedented user experience.

"Today, most of us communicate with our social network using primarily text and photos. However, a six-second video can communicate a lot more." says Toshikazu Shinohara, CEO of Gnzo. "Imagine seeing your social network feed entirely in video, with thirty to fifty simultaneous videos playing back on one screen. It's so much more fun and you can take in a lot more information in a very short time. We are very excited to be able to launch this at DEMO Fall 2012."

Main Features of the Gnzo application:

Upload and share 6-second video snippets, directly from your iPhone

See multiple videos from your social network, playing back simultaneously on a single screen.

Choose a single video and play it back in full screen.

Return to the previous screen by pinching-in.

Videos are sorted in chronological order with new videos appearing on the upper left hand corner.

Swipe the screen to move from "Latest", "Feed", to "Popular".

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Allen West Martin GOP Networking Social 9/26/212 – Video

27-09-2012 10:10 Allen West speaking at the Martin GOP Networking Social in Stuart, FL on 9/26/212

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Dr: Lady Gaga’s Movement ‘Heartwarming’ for Fans – Video

26-09-2012 16:27 After receiving attention for gaining weight, Lady Gaga posted photos on social media with the caption 'bulimia and anorexia since I was 15.' The entertainer also announced an effort to encourage body acceptance. (Sept. 26)

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