Facebook’s Zuckerberg must be laughing right now as he reads the latest buzz on the web about OpenSocial, a group of “other” social networks headed by no less than Google representing Orkut. Joining Google in OpenSocial are social networks LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning. The New York Times is reporting that “it learned of …
Digg rolled out a new feature for its user profiles which is clinging towards transforming the social news site into a social networking site. Think of it as Pownce with user-submitted news feed minus the cool green background. There are many things that Digg users can do with the new user profiles. They can add …
Digg, much like many other social bookmarking tools, is built around a small community of highly “ranked” users that control ninety percent of the overall success for the other millions of registered members. It is not a big secret that an article does not have to be excellent in order to climb through the Digg …
Yahoo and Bebo, UK’s number one social networking site, reached an advertising agreement that would let Yahoo serve advertisements on Bebo’s sites in both UK and Ireland. With an estimated 11.6 million users in UK and Ireland, the deal would tremendously increase Yahoo’s inventory of advertising expanding to a younger audience dominates the user demographics …
Finally, after more than a year of being in beta stage, NY Times opens the doors of its start page personalization portal, My Times to the public. My Times is a web portal that lets NYT readers organize not only NYT articles but articles from all over the internet. My Times is like your other …
Despite establishing itself as a contender into the social networking arena, Facebook up to know is still uncertain on how to put in more revenues into its bank accounts. Facebook has been struggling on the financial side especially since owner, Mark Zuckerberg has consistently turned down buyout proposal from several giant companies. But things seems …
Stumbleupon.com launched a new beta interface tonight. I just noticed the change when I stumbled a few pages. I was playing around with the new interface and I have to say that I like it. It is IMO much more intuitive to use. It also looks much more organized and overall better and more visually appealing. …
Data from a recently concluded study of the mobile media authority, M:Metrics shows that there are around 12.3 million American and European mobile users who access social networking sites through their mobile phones. The study which covers consumer data culled for the month of June also shows the following data on mobile social networking usage …
Watching the YouTube democratic debate last night I started wondering, “wow”, what a great idea… but why did they do it? Just like anything else in the world of business, these debates are purely based on the marketing of all parties involved in monetizing from them (TV ratings, etc) to the candidates themselves. Two factors …
A fellow affiliate marketer and blogger with the name Andrew Wee from WhoIsAndrewWee.com was writing an interesting post while I was heading to Affiliate Summit East in Miami two weeks ago. I liked the post, because it had two nice paragraphs about what I am doing as well as a link to my site. I …
