Archive for the ‘Social Networking Success Stories’ Category

Who Won the Webby Awards

Every year, since 1997, the Webbys are awarded to websites that are the best at something they do. There are many different categories and many different awards to be awarded. On Mashable you can se…

How She Makes $1000 a Month

It is possible to make money from your blog, believe it or not. Amy Derby does it. Now she's telling all about how she makes $1000 a month from her blog. You may find some helpful tips here to hel…

Forget MySpace, Facebook Is A Bigger Threat To LinkedIn

INFORMATION WEEK – July 11 – When it comes to social networking, it seems everyone is obsessed with Facebook. The big meme du jour is that Facebook will soon surpass MySpace as the biggest social netw…

Faking a Presidential Campaign

"By creating a character with an interesting story, they have designed a campaign that uses entertainment with an angle to get attention for BigFix." ~Buzz Networking (July 3)

They did it a…

Facebook Helps iLike Growth

BILLBOARD — July 2 — Ilike, a relatively unknown online music community, is now the fastest growing digital music service on the Internet, thanks to Facebook's recent changes. Facebook, which ha…

Facebook’s Viral Growth Gets a Vaccine

GIGA OM — June 29 — Valleywag today published a letter from an anonymous Facebook platform developer complaining about the abusive limits facebook is imposing on viral growth. The change limits the …

They’re All Connected To Each Other

According to Information Week (May 22), social networking sites are drawing traffic from each other.

I can tell you why. Most people with a social networking profile also have social networking prof…

UserPlane Acquired by AOL. Bootstrapped Flawlessly to an Exit!

I don't want to rehash the news that you've read on 10 other blogs already. Suffice to say that Michael Jones' UserPlane has been purchased by AOL. Tech Crunch, GigaOM, Download Squad and …

Social Networking for Local Businesses

John Battelle, Greg Sterling and Garrett French have written critiques of merchant Circle, a new free listings tool for small businesses. Garrett was the first to highlight the social networking viral…

Google Enters Online Photo Sharing Space?

Phillip Lensen of Google Blogoscoped points out that Google may be webifying their a-little-while-ago acquired Picasa photo management software, to compete with flickr. Of course, not sure why anyone …