http://www.takeaplunge.com Ventures, Start Ups, Businesses Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.takeaplunge.com/jibe-taps-into-your-social-graph-with-next-generation-job-board/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/jibe-taps-into-your-social-graph-with-next-generation-job-board/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:21 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=4188 Jibe is a next-generation job board, which uses Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to help you in finding jobs. Jibe was in private beta since March, but now it has opened for everyone./ At present, you will find job listings from Conde Nast, MTV Networks, Amazon, Equinox, and Church & Dwight. You can sign in with Facebook [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/jibe-taps-into-your-social-graph-with-next-generation-job-board/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/like-fm-is-how-social-music-should-work/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/like-fm-is-how-social-music-should-work/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:26:33 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=4163 Like.fm is a social music site. To use it, you can simply go the site or use the plug-ins. If you are using iTunes, the first install the free plug-in for iTunes. Next time, whenever  you play a song from iTunes, Like.fm will take the title and artist of the song and will post them on a public [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/like-fm-is-how-social-music-should-work/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/pingg-studio-lets-artists-create-and-share-invite-designs/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/pingg-studio-lets-artists-create-and-share-invite-designs/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:28:59 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=4077 The invite service Pingg has launched a Pingg Studio platform for artists and designers. Pingg is focusing on attracting the design community. “In terms of a service where anyone can load their profile and send traffic to their e-card. We’re the only ones doing this,” says co-founder Lorien Gabel. Pingg is offering cash to its community of designers. [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/pingg-studio-lets-artists-create-and-share-invite-designs/feed/ 1 http://www.takeaplunge.com/facebook-location-in-action-facebook-places/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/facebook-location-in-action-facebook-places/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:22:19 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=4056 Welcome to Facebook Places. Now, in the Facebook website, you’ll find a new Places tab. When you click on it, it’ll show you your friends who have geotagged themselves at various locations. Once you tap “Share where you are with friends” from here, it shows a list of nearby places. It’s Facebook check-in. Facebook unveiled its new [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/facebook-location-in-action-facebook-places/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/i-move-motivates-you-for-healthy-activities/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/i-move-motivates-you-for-healthy-activities/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:05:04 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=4017 Now, you can start doing healthy activities and can also challenge your friends to commit to such an activity. Y-Combinator-backed I Move You is launching today. It is a place where you can publicly pledge to take up an action and challenge a friend. The site hopes that this will not only motivate yourself, but will also [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/i-move-motivates-you-for-healthy-activities/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/farmville-is-it-a-new-game-about-mindless-social-games/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/farmville-is-it-a-new-game-about-mindless-social-games/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:21:25 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3911 Fad up of the nonstop Farmville updates of your friends in your Facebook page? It’s really difficult to understand why the whole world is after one game. A new Facebook-based game tries to talk about the supposed inanity of other Facebook games–like the now-antiquated “sheep throwing” of Slide’s SuperPoke and the highly popular Zynga’s FarmVille (which takes [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/farmville-is-it-a-new-game-about-mindless-social-games/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/want-me-to-read-your-email-pay-me/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/want-me-to-read-your-email-pay-me/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:20:41 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3250 Probably you don’t like your e-mail inbox, flooded with e-mails everyday. But there was no getting rid of it. Now, a new service wants to do something about it or at least pay you for your hard work. The service called Attention Auctionwill get you money for reading e-mails. How does it work? People will bid to [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/want-me-to-read-your-email-pay-me/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/swedish-service-performs-your-last-online-wishes/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/swedish-service-performs-your-last-online-wishes/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:07:06 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2737 A Swedish Internet site offers a new service. It will manage email and social networking accounts after death. My Webwill will soon test launch in Sweden and the United States this month. Next Britain and Germany will have it running in the beginning next year. Users will be able to set up a digital will with directions [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/swedish-service-performs-your-last-online-wishes/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/tringmes-app-lets-you-make-calls-from-facebook/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/tringmes-app-lets-you-make-calls-from-facebook/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:58:54 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2400 Now, if Facebook application will let you make calls from Facebook. VoIP startup TringMe has launched this Facebook application. Using its Flash-based web phone for browsers, you’ll be able to make the calls. It will offer another benefit- you will be able to embed widgets to your profile and using the widget your Facebook friends will be able to [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/tringmes-app-lets-you-make-calls-from-facebook/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/facebook-members-who-buy-friends-could-be-banished/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/facebook-members-who-buy-friends-could-be-banished/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:50:15 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2048 Facebook has some strict warning for its members.  Members buying “friends” from the Australian online marketing company, uSocial.net, could face banishment from the social network. uSocial.net offered to sell a Facebook user “friends” and “fans.” Facebook Friends 1,000 friends for 177 dollars and 5,000 friends for 654 dollars 5000 is the friend limit imposed by Facebook on a standard profile [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/facebook-members-who-buy-friends-could-be-banished/feed/ 0