I recently had the chance to talk with Manu Rekhi, the Vice President of Marketing, Business and Corporate Development with Lolapps and a former Senior Product Manager with Google.  Socialtimes.com had recently covered the implementation of Lolapps’ Dante’s Inferno application and we wanted to get a bit more information on the development of the application, the social gaming industry in general and the next steps for Lolapps.  Click below to listen.
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Cliqset, which officially launches its public beta today, is one of the several companies looking to make online networking easier for the individual. With goals as grand as OpenID, Cliqset is actually working in tandem with the established methods of “portable profiles” in order to push the trend forward, providing an ever-accessible omnipresence for end users that benefits the participating publishers and site owners as well. With such a seamless concept for site accessibility, Cliqset presents itself as an immediate socialization tool, providing instant networks for sites, while bridging the gap between computer-based and mobile applications as well. Below is an interview with Darren Bounds, co-Founder and President of Cliqset.
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TimeXchange is a time-sharing application that has seen the good, bad and ugly aspects of online social networking. A service that set out with a social perspective in mind, TimeXchange has spent the last couple of years determining the best way to fit into the social scene for an area of data sharing that isn’t quite so glamorous.

Thanks to open platforms and more importantly, the Apple Application Store, TimeXchange is seeing a great deal of growth and adoption as its service is made even easier to use. Today, the company announces that it’s opening its mobile platform for the purpose of encouraging developers to build even more applications that will further benefit end users and take TimeXchange to the next realm as a social utility for time-sharing and project management. Below is an interview with Jim Figliulo of TimeXchange.
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