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• Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Dec 19, 2007

  I’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly summary, read the summary, then quickly scan headlines, read the bullet, then click to learn even more. I’ve created a category called Digest where you can start to track and access these going forward. Quickly scan the succinct and categorized headlines, read summary for analysis, and click link to dive in for more. You can subscribe to this digest tag only.

• Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Dec 12, 2007

  I’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly summary, please send to your busy executives. I’ve created a new category called Digest where you can start to track and access these going forward. Quickly scan the succinct and categorized headlines, read summary for analysis, and click link to dive in for more. You can subscribe to this digest tag only, which filters only these posts tagged digest.

• 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.

• Website Of The Week : Mobilize Your Favorite Social Networks With MoDazzle

  Website Of The Week : Mobilize Your Favorite Social Networks With MoDazzle December 28th 2007 Posted in Mobile 2.0, Recommended Websites

• Google: Social Networking Inventory Not Monetizing as Well as Expected

  Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Speaking on the company’s post-earnings conference call, Google (GOOG) CFO George Reyes said the company has found that “social networking inventory is not monetizing as well as expected,” leading to higher than expected traffic acquisition costs. TAC of $1.4 billion was 30.3% of ad revenue, up from 29.1% in the third quarter. Complete Story »

• Musicians take social networking into their own hands (Reuters)

  Reuters - 50 Cent has more than 1 million friends on MySpace, but if the rapper ever decides to leave the sociuters - 50 Cent has more than 1 million friends on MySpace, but if the rapper ever decides to leave the social network, he’ll be leaving behind those friends, too. So like a growing number of artists, he’s started [...]

• Calculating the Real Market Value of Social Networks

  Michael Arrington submits: Is MySpace worth $3 billion, or $20 billion? It depends on how you value a user. It’s time to start comparing the big global social networks on something other than unique visitors and page views. I believe an effective way to value a particular user is based on the average Internet advertising spend per person in the country they live in. The higher the spend.

• The spam-happy history of Amazon.com's new social network Shelfari [Acquisitions]

  Amazon.com's newly acquired book-readers social network, Shelfari, has a bad reputation. The main charges lodged: It has grown its userbase through a shady techniques such as automatically sending site invites to everyone in a new user's email address book. It's also believed to engage in "astroturfing" --- specifically, pretending to be users in blog comments to buff up its image. Gawker last year described the site as "basically social networking rapists" .

• 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.

• DoctorsHangout.com: Real Social Network

  There are plenty of social networking sites created by and for medical professionals, but here is a real social network that is focused mainly on the hobbies and recreation of physicians and medical students. DoctorsHangout.com is an exclusive next generation social networking service for Medical Students, Residents and Doctors. DoctorsHangout.com social network can help you maintain existing personal and professional relationships and establish new ones by reaching out to Doctors you’ve never met before.