Facebook rival Hi5 says it is working on its own developer platform today, the latest social network to realize that it had better open up quickly or potentially lose customers to more active pastures ...

Confirming that a platform is the new must-have for any social network, Hi5 announced today that it will be releasing its own to the developer community in the coming year, according to VentureBeat.

Second-tier social network Hi5 has acquired app developer PixVerse for an undisclosed amount, just four months after launching its app platform based on the OpenSocial specification. PixVerse offers ...

Some of the best data on the growth of social networks is coming out of the widget startups. People put widgets on their various social network user pages, and traffic is referred back to the widget ...

The biggest social networks, like Facebook and MySpace, have operated mobile sites long before anyone ever held an iPhone. Midsize social networks are still warming up to the concept: Hi5, a San ...

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Hi5 used to be a social network-turned-gaming platform, and one of the most popular some years ago, along with other has-beens like My Space. Faring better than the once-popular Facebook predecesor, ...