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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> Privacy: Facebook asks for Communtiy Feedback for ToS<\/strong> Usage: LinkedIn usage up, even during recession<\/strong> Adoption: Twitter takes Washington DC by Storm<\/strong> Data: How people interact with Twitter<\/strong> Data: Why Facebook Dominates MySpace<\/strong> Headcount: Changes in MySpace Exec Board<\/strong> Usage: Facebook users only interact with a few<\/strong> Launch: Radian 6 releases new features<\/strong> Culture: When ‘friending’ celebrities becomes in style<\/strong> Twitter: Brands jump on the Twitter wagon<\/strong> M&A: Why the Twitter and Facebook deal fell through<\/strong> Future of Social Networks<\/strong> Expansion: UserVoice shoots for global<\/strong> Humor: Comedian Jon Stewart Tweets<\/strong> Humor: Stats about Social Networks that ought to be true<\/strong> I’m listening: 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 but first, read how to score your announcements<\/a>. <\/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: March 4, 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-2986","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\/2986","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=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe big trends? Facebook recoils from PR nightmare over terms of service and goes democratic style “let the people decide”. Social network adoption continues to increase with tools like LinkedIn, Congress, and takes the mainstream media as it gets overhyped. Several minor announcements from vendors, with more studies being done on how people actually interact with each other in these social tools.<\/p>\n
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\nMark composes this well crafted PR blog post<\/a> asking for community feedback on the next Terms of Service, that stirred a community revolt a few weeks ago. The question is, why didn’t they just do this in the first place? You can start to see some of the sample ToS that venturebeat is highlighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nUnsure about what goes up when everything else goes down? LinkedIn is in the midst of a growth opportunity<\/a>, as well as other social networks as usage goes up from those that have more time –and need to connect to each other.<\/p>\n
\nAFP news reports that more political folks are now on twitter, and are tweeting live from congress and meetings<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nTwitter, a social network with microblogging features provides users the ability to rapidly exchange information. See how the breakdown of tools is used<\/a>, most are using the web browser, and a few clients.<\/p>\n
\nCompare the dominant Facebook vs MySpace traffic, stickablilty, and engagement, in this report from Compete<\/a> which shows a few tipping points at the end of 2008.<\/p>\n
\nRelated to the above: It appears that three executives are leaving MySpace, reportedly to start a new company<\/a>. When you have this many leaders leaving at the same time, there was either a cleaning of the house by the board, or a revolt against upper management. Either way, MySpace must innovate to keep up with growing Facebook.<\/p>\n
\nDespite those that have over 100 friends, most only communicate with a smaller subset of friends, and the rest is broadcasting to others<\/a>. Now there’s not enough data presented to see if if content actually can still spread across those that do not interact. On a similar thread, primates appear to be prone to grooming<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nSocila media management company Radian 6 launches<\/a> alert features, management features to tag information, and route ‘tickets’ to different team members could help brands manage their online reputation.<\/p>\n
\nThis interesting WSJ article tells Jeff Shapiro’s story of how he befriended (virtually that is) a few celebrities<\/a> which quickly launched him into the inner circle of friending other celebrities.<\/p>\n
\nThe twitter wagon is getting more brands on board, the barriers to entry are low, there’s media hype, that results in these top brands to follow on Twitter and why<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nBusinessWeek digs into why Twitter walked away from Facebook’s offer for acquisition, the quick: Uncertain valuation made the equity trade a risky bet for Twitter, that was already gaining traction<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nFred Wilsons vision of the future of the social web<\/a>, showcases some key attributes that entrepreneurs, investors, and others must know.<\/p>\n
\nThis young startup provides ’embracing’ software for companies and employees to submit ideas. They are now expanding with global reach by launching in different languages<\/a>. I’d like to see them partner with Yammer to bring in-house innovation to companies.<\/p>\n
\nThis silly video pokes fun at Twitter —now we know it’s going mainstream<\/a><\/p>\n
\nGotta give credit to the brainz folks for coming up with this silly<\/a> –yet sad– truth about the citizens of social networks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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