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May 13th
WAYN's Ward of courtship

Entrepreneur Peter Ward tells Richard Tyler about his journey from a man with an idea to co-founder of a multi-million business

Peter Ward is standing on a podium at HSBC's towering headquarters in London's Canary Wharf, gesturing to his audience to stand up. He is trying to explain what WAYN.com ("Where are you now?"), the online travel social media site he co-founded with Frenchman Jerome Touze, actually does.

Fortunately, the 29-ye see more




May 12th
Mobile social networking entices 5 million

More than 10% of UK mobile phone users accessed social networking websites such as Facebook, Bebo and MySpace via their handsets at least once a month in the first quarter of 2008, according to research...

...The top 10 most visited social networking websites by mobile users also included Friends Reunited, Where Are You Now?, Yahoo Groups, Faceparty and BBC Communities.

"Social networking is already a global phenomenon and mobile coul see more




Apr 25th
WAYN boasts carbon footprint success

WAYN.com has received a massive response to its campaign aimed at getting people to reduce their carbon footprint.

The campaign, which was launched about five weeks ago and gave members 12 steps to reduce the impact of carbon emissions, attracted more than 54,000 people to sign up to it who between them made more than 600,000 environmentally-friendly pledges.

WAYN estimates that if all 54,000 people took the step of off-setting their see more




Apr 24th
WAYN to sell travel insurance through Moneysupermarket

Travel social network WAYN is to sell its travel insurance product through Moneysupermarket.com.

WAYN began offering its 1.9m UK members travel insurance last month, through a tie-up with Mondial Assistance.

Members with VIP access to the site, which allows them access to extra features and free SMS, were given the travel insurance product for free, while other WAYN members could buy from the site.

WAYN is now opening up its see more




Apr 22nd
UK software stars conduct mission to woo Silicon Valley
Companies hope to raise their profile with movers and shakers of northern California during a week-long trip, reports Richard Tyler

Twenty internet software firms have joined forces to take part in the first co-ordinated attempt to show American investors the strength of Britain's emerging social media technology industry.

The firms include established sites like WAYN (Where Are You Now?), which enables friends travelling the world to keep in contact, and rising star see more



Apr 8th
WAYN and HotelClub unite for global survey

Travel social network WAYN.com is to partner with HotelClub to produce its 2008 consumer survey of global hotels.

The project will culminate in an awards ceremony and the publication of a book to showcase the most popular 300 hotels around the world.

The deal is a first for WAYN and will see the Travelport-owned HotelClub host a series of ceremonies in UK & Ireland, Oceania and Asia.

WAYN has created a dedicated HotelClub pr see more




Mar 30th
Wake up and smell the new dotcom brew

"I think there is an increasingly innovative culture in Britain," says Hoberman, 39, who is busy running his new home furnishings site, mydeco.com. "There is caution with credit crunch and it is a bit harder to raise money but there is still VC [venture capital] money out there. The challenge is where will the next billion-dollar company come from."

Hoberman no doubt hopes it could one day be wayn.com in which he has a stake along with Friends Re see more

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Mar 30th
The New Dotcom Boom

Sarah or Thomas could be the next Bill Gates. So could anyone with a bright idea and a laptop - pensioner, housewife or student. Oliver Bennett finds out how broadband is turning Britain into a nation of entrepreneurs.

Some of the big names of the first boom have returned, including Brent Hoberman, an architect of the UK end of Web 1.0 and the one responsible, along with Martha Lane Fox, for Lastminute.com, perhaps the most famous first-wave Bri see more

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Feb 29th
WAYN sees 185% rise in unique visitors

Travel and lifestyle online social network WAYN.com has claimed a 185% rise in global unique visitors for February.

This represents a rise from 2.2 million this time last year to 6.3 million visitors.

The site now claims to have more than 11 million members in 193 countries, with 15,000 joining daily.

The growth demonstrates a continuing interest in Web 2.0 in the travel sector, while other social networks are facing a see more




Feb 20th
Nasza-klasa isn’t enough

Friends from Ghana, Tanzania, Africa or Norway? Young people became crazy about looking for friends in the internet. Friends from nasza-klasa.pl are not enough for them. They storm social networking sites and correspond with people in the same age, whom they met during the trips abroad.

WAYN.com is a British social network. Already few millions of Internet users from all over the world use it. It works similarly to nasza-klasa.pl. Members can u see more

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