Google starts linking social networks
Let’s see. I’m on Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, Upcoming, Pownce, Plaxo, Yelp, MySpace, Flickr, Dopplr, and a few others.
The problem? They don’t know about each other.
Google, today, with its new Social Graph API, is trying to hook all of those together.
Another problem? If you’re a developer and build a “foograph” your new application doesn’t have anyone on it. There’s nothing lamer than a new social network that has no one on it.
Google’s new effort lets you import friends from other social networks into your new application.lire la suite
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- Google starts linking social networks
Let’s see. I’m on Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, Upcoming, Pownce, Plaxo, Yelp, MySpace, Flickr, Dopplr, and a few others. The problem? They don’t know about each other. Google, today, with its new Social Graph API, is trying to hook all of those together. Another problem? If you’re a developer and build a “foograph” your new application doesn’t have anyone on it. There’s nothing lamer than a new social network that has no one on it.
- Google Reader just added a social network…
Oh, my, the choice I made to start a link blog using Google Reader’s technology is just looking better and better all the time. Today they started a social network. Please do join up! My Google Name: scobleizer@gmail.com. Add me as a friend, particularly if you are also sharing items in Google Reader. Make sure you edit your Google Reader settings, first, though.
- Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Dec 19, 2007
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- Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Dec 12, 2007
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- How Google killed Blogger's social network [Marissa Mayer]
The new "followers" feature on Google's Blogger, which turns the blogging service into a quasi-social network, may strike some as too little, too late — a me-too move following WordPress and Movable Type's adddition of social elements. But it didn't have to happen. Blogger had a full-fledged social network in the works years ago, called Profiles — and it was quashed by Marissa Mayer in favor of Orkut.
- Should Brands Join or Build Social Networks? (results from an informal survey)
Friday on Twitter I posed the question, should brands join existing social networks (like Facebook, MySpace, etc) or build their own social network (like these many white label tools)? I asked my Twitter network: “Should brands Join or Build their own Social Networks?” Here’s the tally from the many responses: · Join 10 · Build 5 · Both 10 · Mixed reactions.
- Google exec blames agencies for weak social-network ad spending [Online Advertising]
It might as well be 2006 for all the cash social networks aren't raking in. During its recent earnings call, Google complained that ads on social sites like MySpace and YouTube weren't meeting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
- Power.com: A One-Stop Shop for Social Networkers
Power.com, a Web start-up from Brazil with some prominent backers, aims to become the portal through which people access their online social lives. It's up against no less than the world's biggest Internet companies. Power.com’s investors include the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Esther Dyson, the technology investor and analyst. It pulls users' social network updates.
- Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 3, 2008
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- Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 9, 2008
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