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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI took a few weeks off from doing this digest, after my Hawaii vacation<\/a>, but am now back in the groove. If anyone wants to contribute to this on an ongoing weekly basis as a guest editor, let me know.<\/p>\n I’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly digest on the Social Networking space, which I cover as an Industry 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 Web Strategy Summary<\/strong> Funding: LinkedIn gains 53 Million in new investing, valued at 1 billion. <\/strong> Redesign: In a struggle to monetize, MySpace redesigns –ready for brands<\/strong> Awareness (White Label) partners with Sharepoint<\/strong> Asia: Facebook clones appear<\/strong> Aggregation: Ways to easily follow your friends on the web Culture: Is it bad manners to not friend a requester<\/strong> Verticals: Social Network for Truckers<\/strong> Verticals: Social Networks for everyone<\/strong> If I’ve missed a key article or post, leave a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I took a few weeks off from doing this digest, after my Hawaii vacation, but am now back in the groove. If anyone wants to contribute to this on an ongoing weekly basis as a guest editor, let me know. I’m respecting your limited time … Continue readingWeekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: June 18, 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-2567","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\/2567","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=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI’m mainly stirred to write this post as two major occurances have woken me back up: LinkedIn acquires quite a bit of cash, (I met with Dan the CEO last week) and MySpace is trying a different strategy to monetize. As usual, more verticals for social networks appear, and cultures continue wrestle with the impact of these tools.<\/p>\n
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\nWhat will they do with this money<\/a>? Go shopping for a competitor to beef up their portfolio, or move into the enterprise 2.0 space with collaborative tools –or both.<\/p>\n
\nSocial networks (aside from LinkedIn) are struggling to monetize, myspace, the very cluttered self expression network is now redesigning it’s site<\/a>, making it easier for brands to advertise and market.<\/p>\n
\nAwareness is opening it’s doors, making it compatible with CMS\/Collaboration tool Sharepoint<\/a>, which needs ‘social’ features to compete in this market. Expect large companies to make acquisitions in the white label space in the near future.\\
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\nWhite label: yet another launch, Soceeo, Dotster<\/strong>
\nSoceo launches it’s white label solution<\/a> (so any brand can have their own Facebook), as well as Dotster<\/a>, you can already see the very crowded space<\/a> due to commodity technologies.<\/p>\n
\nSocial networking features are a commodity, that’s why there are so many white label vendors. In this article, it discusses how some are directly copying the success of Facebook and creating their own versions<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Content has fragmented on the web, it’s difficult to find all the conversations your friends and colleagues may be having, this list of tools indicates a growing trend<\/a> of aggregators.<\/p>\n
\nI’ve heard of some employees feeling very cautious about adding their boss to their myspace of facebook account –with great reason. Explore what proper netiqqutte is and what’s not<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nLayover.com<\/a>, MyTruckingSpace.com<\/a> emerge for the transportation professional, I’ve seen examples of these in nearly every vertical and niche. <\/p>\n
\nThis 50 most odd social networks listed out by Cnet<\/a> shows some communities for nearly every niche possible, from medical, sports, babies, and even the deceased.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n