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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 Industry Analyst –a good way to get in my head.<\/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 take, 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> Feature: LinkedIn builds community with ‘Groups’ <\/strong> Features: Facebook’s Newsfeed improved<\/strong> Sunset: Yahoo shuts down SoNet ‘Mash’<\/strong> Virtual Goods: Facebook creates virtual currency<\/strong> User Experience: Facebook puts brakes on Wall Spam<\/strong> Deployment: Marriott launches communtiy using LiveWorld<\/strong> Acquisition: Book based SoNet Shelfari gulped by Amazon<\/strong> Mobile: Hi5 moves to mobile<\/strong> Security: MySpace Login Held Ransom to Music Artist<\/strong> Awards: Neighborhood America receives accolade<\/strong> Deployment: McCain launches community via Kickapps<\/strong> Features: Blogger.com launches profiles<\/strong> Advertisements: Contextual ads spit insults<\/strong> PR professionals that have clients in this space, should subscribe to this blog, and ensure their clients are put on this digest by sending me an email, or better yet, leave a comment. If you work for a white label community platform, keep me updated, I want to know of your wins.<\/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 Industry Analyst –a good way to get in my head. I’ve created a new category called Digest (view archives). Start with the Web Strategy Summary, … Continue readingWeekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Sept 3, 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-2714","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\/2714","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=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA smattering of small announcements his week ranges from new features, acquisitions and John McCain launches his own version of MySpace. Sometimes, quiet weeks are good weeks.<\/p>\n
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\nNow launching this groups feature<\/a> (similar to Google Groups and Yahoo Groups) it’ll help users build more of a discussion to self support each other online.<\/p>\n
\nNick O’Neill has a live video showing the interactive and dynamic features of Facebook’s “Live Feed” feature, a real-time life streaming aggregation tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nListed as Yahoo’s fourth failure at social networks<\/a>, they’ve now shut down Mash. Where should they look? Yahoo mail is one of the largest social graphs around<\/p>\n
\nThis analysis suggests that Facebook’s virtual goods are creating virtual goods as currency upwards in the $35 million range<\/a>, yet we must remember it’s only worth as much as what people buy it for.<\/p>\n
\nAn interesting dilemma, this popular social network encourages developers and brands to participate, yet they’ve got to control the user experience above all else, and look to control wall spam<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nInteresting how hotels are getting on the bandwagon as Marriott launches online community<\/a> for Marriott Rewards. Link via Henry Harteveldt<\/a>. Congrats to Liveworld<\/a> for earning the customer, I had to go hunt online to find out who the vendor was.<\/p>\n
\nAmazon to move into the social networking arena with this recent purchase of Shelfari<\/a> a community based application that let’s people create virtual ‘bookshelves’ to share with others.<\/p>\n
\nExpect Hi5’s online growth to fuel it’s recent launch of 26 languages of it’s mobile version of it’s social network<\/a>, given that many cultures lean on mobile communications over US based browser, this could be a medium for growth.<\/p>\n
\nNot sure how to react to this, but Soulja Boy hip hop artist had his logins to MySpace and YouTube<\/a> held ransom from a 12 year old boy demanding 2500 dollars. <\/p>\n
\nInsight community vendor, Neighborhood America receives award at the Always On AO ‘Global 250 Winners’<\/a> for innovation.<\/p>\n
\nMcCain launches his online community<\/a>, in sync with the announcement of his new VP. This online community (the URL indicates it’s from KickApps<\/a>) energizes young republicans to connect to each other, and then spread word of mouth.<\/p>\n
\nThis trend, in which blogs like blogger.com are now becoming more like social networks<\/a> emulating MyBlogLog features or even SixApart’s intention to make blogs more ‘social’. Expect to see a more formal announcement for wordpress.<\/p>\n
\nThis reporter isn’t happy being called “muffin top”<\/a> in her contextual Facebook ads. We shouldn’t blame Facebook for this, it was likely the advertisers choice, and besides…it worked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n