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by Linda Roeder on December 06, 2007
It looks like Yahoo! is up to something more than just redesigning their social networking platforms. They may be trying to find a way to integrate social networking right into your email. When...
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by Linda Roeder on December 03, 2007
Remember the question I had about whether Yahoo! 360 is closing or no? Well, I've found the answer. Kee tells you all about it. On her blog she tells you what's they're doing and what you...
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by Linda Roeder on November 13, 2007
I came across this blog post from Web 2.0 Weblog claiming that Yahoo! 360 has closed down. There's a post from Jerry Yang, CEO and Chief Yahoo, on Yodel Anecdotal that seems to confirm this. But...
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by Linda Roeder on October 04, 2007
Skype is an Instant messaging program that lets you keep in touch with your friends and see if they're online. Send them a message with the click of a button and find out more about them by...
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by Linda Roeder on July 26, 2007
HipMojo.com (Jul 16) asks the question, "what is the shelf life of a social network?" Who will ultimately win the social networking battle and what will happen to all the other, little,...
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by Linda Roeder on July 21, 2007
"In an interview with silicon.com, futurologist Ian Pearson (whose job title we covet) says that folks will wear devices to "radiate their Web presence" and connect with people who...
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by Linda Roeder on July 20, 2007
Rumor has it that Google and Yahoo are both creating their own social networking sites from the ground up. Google's is called Socialstream and it proves to be different from all the rest in that...
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by Linda Roeder on July 19, 2007
"It's designed for people that want to engage, interact, collaborate, learn, network, and share ideas within a community that has common professional or recreational aspirations.......
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by Linda Roeder on July 05, 2007
I see one major deficit that Facebook needs to overcome if they want to beat out MySpace by next year. They need to find a better way to let people modify their profiles. People love to play with and...
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by Linda Roeder on June 28, 2007
"the fight between MySpace and Facebook is intriguing because they are not only rivals but also opposites. MySpace is messy and Facebook is clean;" ~Business Day (June 19) What this means is...
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by Linda Roeder on June 26, 2007
Everything moves in phases, the moon, kids, moods, everything. So be it for social networking sites. There are ways to connect YouTube to MySpace already, but what if someone came up with a way to...
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by Linda Roeder on June 26, 2007
"Eventually, soon I think, we'll see an explosive unbundling of the services that make up social networks. What was centralized in the form of Facebook, Linked-in, even YouTube, is going to...
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by Linda Roeder on June 25, 2007
"the answer: because elgoog is planning to launch the world's largest social networking application within 12-18 months. it will dwarf everything else out there and rattle the entire internet...
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by Linda Roeder on May 10, 2007
Stefanie Sigurdson of the blog Ch.aoti.ca brings up a good point. What would aliens or futuristic people think of us if they came across our Internet? It's a chilling thought to say the least. I...
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by Linda Roeder on April 04, 2007
"Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? Can such networks acquire the critical mass to provide meaningful and new connections?" ~Beth's...
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by Linda Roeder on March 12, 2007
Tech Trends IV -- Feb 26 -- "When humans first walked the Earth they lived in individual family units, eventually families came together to form villages, towns and then cities. In building...
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by Linda Roeder on March 11, 2007
Soon you will see features of social networking integrated into some of your news sites. News sites will start to use social networking as a way to increase reader participation on their sites. News...
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by Linda Roeder on March 10, 2007
There are tons of social networking sites popping up all over the place and for just about anything you can think of. Many of them won't survive. That's just the nature of things. Most...
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by Linda Roeder on March 07, 2007
Features of social networking will soon be found on your favorite shopping sites. Shopping sites will start to use social networking as a way to increase shopping on their sites. Shopping sites will...
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by Linda Roeder on February 19, 2007
With so many targeted social networking sites starting that all cater to a specific need do you think open social networking sites like MySpace have a chance or do you think it's days are...
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by pete on May 30, 2006
Martha Stewart has announced that she will launch a myspace clone for adult women: The network would appeal to women aged 25 to 45, and allow members to share photographs, scrapbooks, recipes and...
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by pete on April 29, 2006
BusinessWeek has the story: The avatar named Anshe Chung may be a computerized chimera, but the company she represents is far from imaginary. Second Life participants pay "Linden dollars,"...
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