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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> Partnership: Linkedin integrates with IBM’s Lotus<\/strong> Politics: Inauguration spurs social network activity<\/strong> Feature: LinkedIn launches polls<\/strong> Revenues: Lithium has 100% revenue growth<\/strong> Privacy: Chinese gamers must reveal names<\/strong> Partnership: KickApps Integrates Meebo And Yahoo! Maps Layoffs: Mzinga cuts 6%<\/strong> Culture: 10 top social network annoyances 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 Hungry For Social Networking Stats? <\/strong>Then you should see my collection of Social Networks Stats for 2008<\/a> and 2009<\/a>. Bookmark them, then share it with others as I continue to update it.<\/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: Jan 21, 2009<\/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-2927","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\/2927","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=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt’s important you track LinkedIn’s movement as they truly become an enterprise web service, their announcement partnering with IBM is a key step in their opportunity to become the future intranet of any company. Various community vendors have had some partnership announcements such as Pluck and Lithium boasts a large revenue gain over this past year. Social Networks reflect life, and we’ve seen a bump in activity around Obama’s inauguration.<\/p>\n
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\nPerhaps the most important news of the week, but overshadowed by election news is LinkedIn’s partnership with IBM which extends it’s social graph info to Lotus collaboration and community suite<\/a>. Why is this important? It means that workers can now connect with people outside of work to get jobs done –the network has expanded significantly.<\/p>\n
\nRWW reports how the live player at CNN connected to Facebook connect helps to spur social interaction online <\/a>–no one is watching by themselves now, it’s all one connected community.<\/p>\n
\nIn a way to better understand the community, LinkedIn’s polling feature will help brands<\/a> and others understand what’s top of mind for it’s members.<\/p>\n
\nAlways a good sign: Lithium boasts that their<\/a> “100% percent growth in new monthly recurring revenue in less than one year” as a result of growth in the community space. <\/p>\n
\nOnline games in China have exploded, which has caused changes in culture, both good –and bad. As a result, a movement to force gamers to share their real names online<\/a> has been put in place.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Media savvy KickApps launches some key partnerships with Meebo, Yahoo Maps<\/a>, and combines video players to allow brands to extend the experience of Meebo and Yahoo, but to also make community sites more engaging.<\/p>\n
\nAs with many tech companies, startups are a reality, Mzinga cuts 6%<\/a>, which could mean good news for long term sustainability, but could challenge their ability to execute against their goals. Interestingly, I didn’t see an announcement from Mzinga folks (although they left a comment last week)
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\nFuture: Social Networks of the future? the car<\/strong>
\nThought leader David Berkowitz<\/a> interviews Ford executive on how the car (using Sync technology) will soon become a social network hub and node<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Thank god, someone finally made this list<\/a>, #1? MySpace Kitsch. Someone needs to create a ‘de-bling’ app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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