Tiny Scrap is a new mobile microbloging platform that aims to leave its mark by providing users with as many applications and goodies as possible in the same package.

Stay connected with your friends in real time:

• File sharing
• Geo tagging
• Personal message
• Spot your friends on the move
• Find pubs, cafe bars, malls near you

The objective of Tiny Scrap is to let users “Redefine Friendships” – these services are particularly aimed at people who are always busy owing to their professional occupations, but that always have a mobile close at hand. These smart phone users are encouraged to send out status messages to their families and their friends, and these status updates adhere to the “micro” concept that Twitter has made popular. In this particular case they can’t exceed 150 characters

The way it all works, users are rewarded by accruing friends and visiting different locations. They will eventually become the “Chief Of” any of these places.

As it stands, these services are available and readily usable by those who have an iPhone, a Blackberry or any Java-enabled phone. Androids are meant to be supported a short time down the line, too.

As far as mobile networks go, this has a flexible-enough interface and a good set of features so as to make it stand out from the crowd a little.

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Virtual currency platform gWallet is announcing a partnership with online privacy certification company TRUSTe to reinforce gWallet ethical guidelines in the virtual currency space. gWallet partners with both brands and game developers to bring users virtual currency offers on games within social networks.

Following the Scamville controversy in the virtual offers space, the startups which provide these offers on games have been working to rid their platforms of misleading offers. In fact, Offerpal CEO George Garrick promised to take a leadership position in cleaning up scammy ads. Competitor Gwallet has also promised to never offer these type of ads, and is now partnering with TRUSTe to certify gWallet’s privacy practices. TRUSTe will also monitor offers submitted by gWallet‘s advertisers to ensure they aren’t misleading. For example, previously fake quizzes would be tied to long term mobile subscriptions, malware-laden toolbar downloads and and other scams. And Gwallet is betting on TRUSTe to keep these offers at bay.

gWallet, which recently raised $10 million in funding, was founded by serial entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal. gWallet works directly with brands directly as opposed to adopting an affiliate leads model and uses branded video campaigns to engage with consumers. Disney, Best Buy, K-Mart, Nestle, Coke, and The History Channel are all using gWallet’s video campaigns on social networks, which are powered by Tube Mogul.

gWallet also announced an early-stage venture fund to invest in social gaming companies and promote innovation within the social gaming ecosystem. gWallet faces competition from Offerpal and SuperRewards.

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OOZER is a social real network that makes artists and their managers able to come in contact with other artists and managers in order to arrange artistic shows.

Oozer was conceived and achieved in order to permit the management of several artistic profiles, allowing exchanges between artists coming from different fields.

OOZER allows the artist to exchange locations and set up events together with other artists.

Thanks to the exchanging method, the artist can raise the number of his shows or exhibitions and will be able to compare himself with artists from other areas, improving his cultural and social background.

OOZER gives the artist a smart and easy management of his own media.

OOZER gives the artist the chance to get to know other artists in order to bring his own art all around the world. In add to this he will be able to interact with several show business managers.

OOZER will also offer a free page, in limited use version compared with the registered users’ one, in order to raise the public visibility of the artist. This page will show up in the internet search engines.

Can an artist promote himself and search for contacts for the his artistic expressions?

OOZER allows any artist to create different profiles in order to manage all the different artistic fields in which he performs, actually becoming "manager of himself ".

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For the future of innovation in the United States, few things seem as important access to broadband Internet connections. The FCC seems to realize this, which is why they’ve set up the National Broadband Plan. And yet, we’re screwed.

As Harvard Law professor Yochai Benkler lays out in an excellent op-ed today in the New York Times, this new broadband plan may sound great, but it won’t go nearly far enough. The reason is that there is simply nowhere near enough competition in almost all of the markets in this country. In fact, under the new plan, some 85% of homes covered would have no choice when it comes to a provider. So while it’s great that just about everyone will potentially have broadband access in 2020, plenty likely won’t be able to afford it.

And even those lucky enough to have a choice, are probably only going to be able to choose between two options — and again, both of those are likely to be very expensive. The U.S. has the highest broadband prices among advanced nations, while countries like Japan and France get faster (and better) services, for a fraction of the price many of us pay. Again, it’s all about competition. So why do we put up with it? Because the U.S. government has no backbone and ruins its own ideas (such as the National Broadband Plan) because they give into corporate lobbyists.

As Benkler points out in his piece, Time Warner is quite pleased that it can set higher prices due to a lack of competition. Meanwhile, Comcast is raking in just about a billion dollars in profit each quarter thanks in large part to their pricing bullshit.

Is it expensive to lay down the necessary fiber for these super-fast networks? Of course. But there are plenty of ways that competitors could help the big players offset those costs if the government would simply make them open the pipes. But the big players don’t want that — they’re perfectly happy to pay the large upfront costs to ensure that they can reap the much larger rewards on the other end thanks to this lack of competition.

We may have but one hope.

While plenty are wary of how big Google is becoming, the Internet giant has so-far proved to be on the right side with regard to universal Internet access. They were instrumental in making sure the wireless spectrum would be (at least somewhat) open, and now they’re pushing the wired broadband movement in the right direction too with their insanely fast fiber push. While the FCC’s 100 Squared plan would put 100 megabit-per-second broadband in people’s homes by 2020, Google wants to put 1 gigabit-per-second connections in people’s homes much sooner.

Yes, Google is talking on a much smaller scale (500,000 homes vs. 100 million), but, if the initial response is any indication, Google may become a much, much bigger player in this space than they envision right now.

We’ve written a couple of stories about cities doing some wacky things to get Google’s attention so that they might bring the broadband to their cities (here’s Topeka, Kansas and Baltimore, Maryland, for example). But there are dozens of other cities also foaming at the mouth for access. Some examples:

• Longview, Texas has a Twitter account devoted to it and a website
• Both are true for Jersey City, NJ as well
• San Mateo, CA is issuing press releases to the media about its excitement and is getting TechCrunch 50 Red Beacon to lobby on its behalf
• Fresno, CA has a Facebook fan page for fiber with about 7,500 fans so far
• Grand Rapids, MI has a website, Facebook fan page (with over 33,000 fans), and Twitter account
• And yesterday, Greenville, SC had hundreds of citizens line up to create a huge Google logo

Those are just a few of the ones we’ve been tipped about. The reaction around the country to Google’s idea should make it very clear that the people of this country are demanding better access. And yet, the government won’t take the necessary steps to open the market up, and let it bloom because the lobbyists from the companies that stand to lose the most are actually the ones in control. If Google, one of the largest companies in this country, only believes they can afford to hook up 50,000 to 500,000 homes with their plan, how is any other company expected to compete with the incumbent players?

They won’t. Not unless the government grows some balls and backs real openness.

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