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Archive for January 2007

January 16th, 2007

Is social networking on the decline?

While everything I have read in the last few months have talked about the explosive growth of social networking there has been one or two articles that talk about the decline of it.
I find most of these articles a little laughable though, this one from the San Fransisco Chronicle though cracks me up.
The one quote […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

January 15th, 2007

Niche social networking

As we continue to look at the world of social networking we need to not forget that there are niche sites that are set up with special interests in mind. Sites have been created for dog lovers and cat lovers to gear heads and stay at home mothers.
Some companies are able to take advantage of […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

January 12th, 2007

Virtual Worlds the next trend?

The LA Times had a year end article about some of the future trends that they see happening. One that has been talked about for awhile is the growth of Second Life, a website that boasts over two million current users.
Neil Sherman from digitalmediawire.com gave his take on the future of these virtual worlds.
THE TREND […]

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January 11th, 2007

Some demographics about myspace.com and other sites

In an article from infomaticsonline.com I found some interesting stats and facts about myspace.com and other social networking sites.
-Myspace.com accounts for 4.6 % of all visits to US web pages.
-Bebo.com is rumored to be about to purchased by Viacom.
-36% of myspace users are aged 35-54
The social networking phenomenon isn’t unique to English only sites either.
-Mixi […]

By Kevin -- 1 comment

January 10th, 2007

The growth of Bebo.com

In an article on brandweek.com about the evolution of advertising on Bebo.com I found a few tidbits of the growth of bebo.com that I found interesting.
I did my initial review of bebo.com, which you can read here, wasn’t all that positive from a users standup I feel the site is really lacking.
The fact is […]

By Kevin -- 4 comments

January 9th, 2007

Stickam.com a streaming youtube.com?

Social networking site after social networking site continue to be launched. I have covered a lot of them so far and will continue to do so. The question seems to be will there be a “new myspace” which really seems to be the goal of all these companies.
For us we want to be able to […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

January 3rd, 2007

Even the King of Rock and Roll can’t resisit social networking

Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. have announced their plans to begin to market on social networking sites according to yahoo.com. In an interview with yahoo Paul Jankowski, the chief of marketing for EPE Inc. made some interesting statements:
“We will take our MySpace page and we will focus on expanding our
number of friends on MySpace, that kind […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

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