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The best thing about Facebook is that it isn't a blinking mass of glittery images and horrendous, unreadable "designs," right? Perhaps not for long. Now application developers can use Adobe's Flash. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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:
Participation in social networks continues to grow seemingly without bounds as more people seek to connect, share and collaborate with likeminded individuals online. Today, hundreds of millions of online users have already signed up, with an increasing number belonging to more than one network.
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?
Social Networks are widely accepted to be the latest evolution of online communications, tracing a line back through instant messaging, webmail, chat rooms and bulletin boards. Now that we’ve had a little more time and perspective on how they are used, we’re starting to see a few differences between how social networks are used for online communication and previous forms of online communication.
I see that Yahoo has joined up with Google’s Open Social. That’s cool because it will let developers build gadgets, widgets, social networking applications, or whatever we’re calling these things that are like Facebook apps, twice, instead of dozens of times. Once for Facebook and once for everyone else.
It will be the social event of the season. My second daughter is the social one. I worked so hard on this start-up, I have no social life. Let’s check our common-sense understanding of the word social. It’s mostly about people talking to one another. Sometimes it’s about dancing, bowling or doing other stuff with people.
Reader of this blog will know that I have a high degree of interest in Social Games. There are a couple of social gaming conferences coming up in the next couple of months. The first is Interplay which is being held on May 22nd at the Kabuki Hotel in San Francisco. It specifically is focused on games being played on 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.
Inside Facebook has a terrific interview with $uperRewards, one of the two major CPA ad networks for social networks (and increasingly outside of social networks as well). Offerpal is the other major CPA ad network for social networks]. In the interview the $uperRewards team give some great stats and advice for game designers:
The soon-to-be-shuttered Yahoo Mash is not Yahoo's first failed social network. It's also not its second, third, or fourth. It took one whole hand for us to count Big Purple's failed attempts to get social, either through mergers or in-house development, below. Born on March 16, 2005 as "an innovative and engaging way for people to share their lives, leverage their community and get the most out of their online experience," according to Yahoo's then-COO Dan Rosensweig, Yahoo 360 isn't technically dead yet.
Sheryl Sandberg's right! We've teased Facebook's overserious COO for talking up Facebook's need to sign up more users before figuring out how it's going to make billions of dollars off of them. But analytics firm eMarketer says only 42 percent of the Internet-using world knows about social networks.
Website Of The Week : Mobilize Your Favorite Social Networks With MoDazzle December 28th 2007 Posted in Mobile 2.
Creative Capital got ahold of the December 2007 ComScore numbers for the top social networks in the U. S. and they are, on the whole, not good. Engagement -- average minutes spent on the site per. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
Social Networks hacking - maybe not the most technical skill you can learn from the street but definitely the one that will prove to be extremely useful today and in the future.
Abondance: Yahoo! rejoint Google et MySpace dans OpenSocial . Abondance -Il y a 4 heures Yahoo! a annoncé cette semaine qu'il allait rejoindre Google et Microsoft dans OpenSocial, alliance créée pour proposer une plateforme de développement .
Lately has been a growing dissatisfaction in the user communities of social networks and other user-based websites which were built with an intention to lock and control the data that users provide. Users complain about not having control over profile data and social relationships they have established and not being able to export them in machine readable formats, which makes reuse and integration of this data virtually impossible.
Social media ad platform Lotame says it reaches 53 million users through a bunch of social media sites that aren't any of the one's you've heard of or use, such as Fotolog, Meez, Flixster, and PalTalk. But that didn't stop Battery Ventures and Hillcrest Management from funding the company with $10 million in February or from announcing a further investment of $13 million along with new investors from Emergence Capital Partners today.
Totspot, Odadeo, Lil'Grams and Kidmondo are social networks where thousands of people in their 20s and 30s pretend to be their children. For example, Dominic Miguel Alexander Carrasco's Totspot page insists his favorite nicknames are Buddy or Big Boy and that his favorite book is Green Eggs and Ham.
For months now, we've watched as Facebook served users pornographic ads, as well as less expertly targeted come-ons. Now, with a new feature that lets users review the ads they've been served, the company's figured out a smart way to fix the problem. We're a little sad. Who won't miss the days when straight men get pitched as gay, or a NSFW banner ad ran here and there?