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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. By creating this digest (I started this over a year ago) it really helps me to stay on top of the space I cover.<\/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 Subscribe to this blog in your feedreader<\/a>, or use the email subscription box in the right column. Or you can subscribe to this digest <\/em>tag<\/a> only and not receive my other posts.<\/p>\n Web Strategy Summary<\/strong> Military: Vets and US Military get their own social networks<\/strong> Politics: Obama to have weekly YouTube address to nation<\/strong> Leadership: Jerry Yang resigns CEO role<\/strong> Viewpoint: P&G asks Should brands be in Facebook?<\/strong> Funding: Social Network Multiply Raises $5 Million <\/strong> Applications: Facebook to enforce quality applications<\/strong> OpenSocial: Social Networks vie for Developers<\/strong> Partnership: Facebook and SalesForce team up<\/strong> Growth: Twitter’s rapid growth<\/strong> Launch: Liveworld launches light edition<\/strong> Deployment: Passenger wins Mercedes Deal<\/strong> Future: Social Networks to predict your buying behavior<\/strong> Culture: Teachers critiszed for use of Social Networks<\/strong> If you’re a social network, or widget company, I want to know of your news, send me an email, or leave a comment below. Help me stay up to date.<\/p>\n I slowly work on this digest through the week in draft format, collecting information that I see is interesting, and it only takes me a few minutes on wed morning to publish.<\/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. By creating this digest (I started this over a year ago) it really helps me to stay on top of the space I … Continue readingWeekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Nov 19, 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-2839","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\/2839","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=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDeployment of social networking technology in verticals such as military, vets, and the Philipines continues to occur. Soon to e president Obama to publish weekly YouTube videos. Expect to see an increase in social networks adoption around politics and government. Jerry Yang removed from CEO role. <\/p>\n
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\nAfter banning YouTube, soldiers need an outlet to communicate with their families, introducing TroopTube<\/a>. On a similar note, veterans get their own social network<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nForget Saturday morning cartoons, Obama will be on YouTube each weekend discussing the state of the nation, go to his channel at Change.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nCEO of Yahoo steps down from his position, here’s why Forrester’s analyst Shar Van Boskirk thinks this is a good move for Yahoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nOne of Proctor and Gambles top digital marketers questions should brands be in Facebook<\/a>, or is it too invasive? There are thousands of brands already in Facebook, and most are doing it wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nFlorida-based Multiply, which boasts 10 million users (not sure how many are active), has raised funding through equity investment, and seeks to take on the Filipino market.<\/p>\n
\nAlthough announced a few months ago, Facebook’s program to anoint applications that pass the user experience and security test has started<\/a>. Interesting to read how developers must pay to be in the program –resulting in incremental revenue for Facebook.<\/p>\n
\nPlatforms continue to seek developers to build on their containers and platforms (aka social networks that can have apps built on it), from Bebo, Hi5, MySpace, and Facebook. Google inserts themselves right in the middle by trying to be the open protocol<\/a>. Also, continued adoption occurs for the OpenSocial protocol after 1 year<\/a> of launch.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s key to watch how businesses will be impacted by social networks, and this announcement, to enable games and productivity to work together<\/a>. Expect to see a new category of applications to be built that meet both these needs.<\/p>\n
\nComscore tracks an increase of 25% more tweets<\/a> in twitter due to political debates, as well as as ‘hockey stick’ curve of growth.
\nFacebook bans racists
\nhttp:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idUSTRE4AD3KZ20081114<\/p>\n
\nReaching the mass markets, LiveWorld launches a lighter version of their product, although the price is indicated in their press release<\/a>, I’ll find out from Bryan and team<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nPassenger, an ‘insight community’ vendor wins deal to run Mercedes community for private label community<\/a>. Passenger offers brands unique ability to glean customer insight –a real time focus group within a community.<\/p>\n
\nPerhaps the holy grail for retailers, the ability to predict consumer buying behavior<\/a> based on demographics, psychographics, technographics and social network behavior.<\/p>\n
\nAre teachers sanctioned to give their honest opinion in social networks, what if the content is intended to be private? This North Carolina school district is getting some heat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n