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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly digest on the Social Networking space, which I cover as an analyst. <\/p>\n
I’ve created a new category called Digest (view archives)<\/a>. Start with the Web Strategy Summary, then quickly scan the succinct and categorized headlines, read text for my analysis, and click link to dive in for more.<\/p>\n You can subscribe to this digest tag<\/a> only<\/em>, which filters only these posts tagged digest. <\/p>\n Need to make decisions about your web strategy? I’m here to help: subscribe to my blog<\/a>, sign up for emails (right nav), or follow me on Twitter<\/a>, (I’ll follow you in return).<\/p>\n Web Strategy Summary<\/strong> OpenSocial: Yahoo could Join<\/strong> Usage: Social Network Visits, Feb 2007 vs 2008<\/strong> Evolution: REM sells next album on iLike<\/strong> Whitepaper: Increasing the Density of Connections to Power Business Performance<\/strong> Deployment: Awareness power travel social network<\/strong> Analysis: Performance of Widgets<\/strong> Interview: Zuckerberg on the future of Facebook<\/strong> Acquisition: Pluck acquired for $75m by Demand Media<\/strong> Features: Newsgator powers Sharepoint to go ‘social’<\/strong> Schools: Don’t get Facebook\/Real World<\/strong> Drama: Zuckerburg Interview takes a very wrong turn<\/strong> Expansion: YouTube extends, Kickapps hosts<\/strong> If I’ve missed anything, leave a comment or send me an email for the next digest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly digest on the Social Networking space, which I cover as an analyst. I’ve created a new category called Digest (view archives). Start with the Web Strategy Summary, then quickly scan the succinct and categorized headlines, read … Continue readingWeekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: March 12, 2008<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digest","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe possible intent for Yahoo to Join OpenSocial (Google’s alliance to allow widgets to freely travel between social networks) is expected. This is an industry shift, and we should be watching –and adapting– to this. Compete shares top visited social networks, where MySpace and Facebook continue to dominate, and growth spurts from smaller players like Myyearbook are good to watch.<\/p>\n
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\nI’m confident this would be a smart move for Yahoo, this is something they should take seriously. Yahoo to join OpenSocial<\/a>. The only player that’s not going to be part of OpenSocial out of the large organic networks will be Facebook. But since they’re sharing a seamless transition with Bebo (who’s part of OpenSocial) it could now be a forced hand for them. <\/p>\n
\nCompete graphs the top visited websites<\/a>, MySpace and Facebook continue to dominate, although Myyearbook makes quick gains.<\/p>\n
\nThe Might Be Giants was the first to sell their albums on MP3 in the 98 or 99, Pearly Jam in 2007, Radiohead in 2007, and now REM sells their album on iLike<\/a>. <\/p>\n
\nSelectMinds, who has made some recent announcements of funding and new products<\/a> is offering a white paper on how businesses can improve by enabling employees to connect<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nAwareness, announced that its Enterprise Social Media platform<\/a> is powering GlobalTravelBlog.com<\/a>, a community where travelers can share their experiences and connect with each other. <\/p>\n
\nInteresting graphs and analysis on how many applications<\/a> are growing –then ‘epic’ failing– through loss of usage and user interaction.<\/p>\n
\nThis short interview<\/a>, which starts with the recruitment of the newest COO sheds light on the direction –and lack of– that Facebook is headed. One thing is clear, cocktail parties are serious social networking events here in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n
\nDemand Media has purchase Pluck, the “social media platform provider to high profile clients including USA Today, The Washington Post, and Fox News.” reports Mashable<\/a (link submitted by Chris<\/a> in last week’s digest)<\/p>\n
\nNewsgator, with strength in embeds now is going to empower Microsoft’s sharepoint to have social networking features<\/a>, enabling it’s strong CMS and collaboartion tools to let members connect and share.<\/p>\n
\nThe education system appears (at least in this case) appears to be completely withdrawn from the fact the real world is about collaboration, and it often happens online. This student, who lead group collaboration has charges brought against him<\/a>, as he created a virtual study group. On the other hand, maybe this was an individual assignment, and he didn’t follow orders.<\/p>\n
\nFacebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg experiences a very awkward interview, too many opinions to point to, just see techememe<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nYouTube announced<\/a> that it would let it’s player be more of an embedded application. Kickapps is the first to let the experience be available<\/a> from it’s own social networking platform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n