Buzz Networker - Social Networking

June 5th, 2007

Review: Hi5.com

Site: Hi5.com

Members: According to the Hi5’s information page they have over 50 million registered users, with 18 million unique visitors per month.
Their age demographics breakdown:
13-17- 23%
18-24- 20%
25-34- 15%
35-44- 18%
Features:
Hi5 has standard social networking features: messaging, groups, schools, classifieds, and forums. The pages are customizable, not as much as some other sites, but customizable […]

By Kevin -- 6 comments

May 18th, 2007

Windows Live Spaces, should we stop ignoring them?

When I talk about social networking the first sites that come out of my mouth are usually myspace, facebook, bebo, friendster, and tagworld. I ignore the offerings by Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft on a regular basis, not out of spite or any other preconceived notions, I just see them as extensions for products they already […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

May 17th, 2007

Maybe I can finally ad Pat Robertson as a friend?

In my on going quest to join every social networking website on the planet and write about them, I have found a few new religious themed ones that were talked about in this yahoo! Canada article. As with most niche social networking websites, these sites aren’t going to help your business out unless these markets […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

May 14th, 2007

Review: LinkedIn

Site: LinkedIn

Members: 10 million+
Features:
-you can import your contacts via webmail or other contact programs such as Outlook and Act-ability to send messages, post job openings, review resumes-ability to ask a question where other users are able to reply, here is a sample question that was posted on my network the other day:
What are your […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

May 7th, 2007

Review: Twitter

“I don’t get it.”
-Josh Baskin, Big

Twitter has been a social networking site that has been garnering more and more attention as of late. This website allows you to update your status, notifying your contacts via text message or IM whatever status message you post. You can also create a widget for your blog or webpage […]

By Kevin -- 2 comments

November 25th, 2006

Review: Bebo

Site: Bebo.com

Members: 22 million, 28.5 million users, it seems mostly focused on UK and Australia people
Features:
-Standard social networking type features messaging, blogging, friends, comments, photos
-Special white board feature where you can draw a picture for a friend
-There is a special media plug in right on your page where you can choose different flash media to […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

November 24th, 2006

Review: Tagworld

Site: Tagworld.com

Members: Over 2 million members and growing
Features:
-highly customizable profiles especially for people with limited css knowledge
-standard social networking fair such messaging, friend adding, bulletins
-you can create multiple pages within a profile
-your page, posts, and any content you upload is able to be tagged much like a lot of popular web 2.0 applications
-able to do […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments