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Time now for the third edition of our events guide. In this new feature on ReadWriteWeb, we provide a weekly roundup of upcoming Social Web events. We'll publish it every

Lately I've been getting invites to a new social network called Quechup. I'm already a member of too many social networks, so to be honest I've ignored these requests. But

SocialVibe is an online popularity contest that turns corporate advertising into money for charity. Users compete for status and prizes by shilling for their favorite brands, while a cut of

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), have launched an application development contest on both Google's Open Social and the Facebook Platform. The contest calls for developers to

I've been hearing whispers that Google will integrate their social network Orkut with the mobile social networking app they acquired last year, Dodgeball. While it's not rocket science to

Imagini Friends is an unusual new social network, that calculates your "VisualDNA" and uses it to find other people that match your choices. It's an application of Imagini, the technology

When Google radically changed its iGoogle homepage a little while ago, many of its users were up in arms about these changes. By updating its homepage today, AOL ran a

Evite, the social planning service which has been around since 1998, announced a partnership with JS-Kit today. Evite will use JS-Kit's commenting and polling features to allow organizers and guests

I've been thinking a lot about the Facebook Platform (who hasn't?), and about who is in the best position to take them on. The obvious answer is MySpace, still the

A recent study by industry group the Participatory Marketing Network has unearthed some surprising data on Gen Y behavior. Apparently, the members of this young demographic (ages 18-24) would rather