Yahoo Mash – Yahoo!, don’t forget about Yahoo! Mash
Yahoo’s social networking tool “Yahoo Mash” offered up a good first entry into the social networking space by a major player. But I’m noticing how it seems to be languishing after the initial...
View ArticleUser content myth?
Chuqui 3.0 has a nice piece challenging the hype over “user generated content”. He suggests that it’s inappropriate to call simple profile pages at Facebook or Myspace “user content”, and that only...
View ArticleGoogle Open Social opens Social
Google’s OpenSocial launches Thursday and will be a set of 3 APIs that will allow interface with a stable of early partners in the project incluing Friendster and LinkedIn. Unclear to me is if the...
View ArticleMyspace to join Google’s Open Social. Facebook’s value plunges.
It is a mildly risky but potentially brilliant counterstrike against Facebook’s rising popularity. Myspace will announce shortly that they are joining the Open Social movement spearheaded by Google...
View ArticleThe Social Network Reality Show: High stakes, big money, false rumors.
The game is social networks. The stakes are very high, and the news and rumors are flying fast, furiously, and inaccurately. Here is the latest in the saga of Google’s Social Networking entry which,...
View ArticleNews Corp Advertising Network. Under the Radar?
Facebook’s targeted advertising was criticized heavily last week by bloggers despite Facebook promises to create a better user experience through better targeting of the ads. I’m guessing users will...
View ArticleYou are killing people in your Social Network?
Massive multiplayer online gaming is increasingly becoming a mainstream social activity. Leaving aside for the moment many interesting questions about how this affects the offline behavior and...
View ArticleSocial Networking = Facebook? Myspace is more likely to be an average...
Marshall’s at Read Write Web is right to question some of the prevailing social networking wisdom. He notes that the ongoing Facebook frenzy is driven in part by folks who are infatuated with Facebook...
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