Just read some analysis on the latest Hitwise traffic trends for social networking sites (thank god they have not succumbed to the newly blogger blessed “social graph”). Here’s the big reveal:

So you can see that MySpace still owns 72% of the traffic compared to Facebook’s 16%. From this Mr. Kirkpatrick argues that Facebook is getting [...]

Categories: social networks

So, Scoble got banned from Facebook for running a script that pulled all sorts of data off the social network. Uproar ensues. In addition to all the “Facebook is the tool of the devil” blogging there was some, “well, he did break the terms of use and take information that wasn’t his own personal information…” [...]

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So, Google is launching Profiles across some of their products - right now it is apparently in Shared Stuff, Maps and Reader - some of the bits of Google that have social aspects to them.
It’s super, super basic now - I set up my profile off my Reader account (where it handles any posts [...]

Categories: google · social networks

You know I was skeptical of the Open Social - Google’s social networking api alliance thing. For a variety of reasons not least of which is that it’s an API designed by huge committee. A committee of container hosts, developers and Google - everyone scratching for their input. I just don’t see how that’s going [...]

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Huh, well it turns out that Facebook backs down - it couldn’t ride out the media on it’s most recent beacon “feature”. I’m honestly kind of a little surprised - it seemed to me like the sort of thing that was big noise in the blogger world but very little noise in regular people’s world [...]

Categories: privacy · social networks

Project Beacon is the latest controversy surrounding good ol’ Facebook. It’s a “service” that third party stores can use that will publicize your purchases at said store into your facebook news feed, so you go to a participating online retailer buy widget X and all of a sudden all your friends and coworkers get to [...]

Categories: politics · privacy · social networks

I’m stepping in front of the bus again. After the posting on how I’m not overly impressed with Google Android and the Open Handset Alliance, I’m similarly not impressed with the Open Social. It has nothing to do with the hacks that are starting to happen already, this is a fixable problem. And I’m not [...]

Categories: social networks · web2.0

I got an invite to Yahoo Mash and played around there for a bit and then I was reading Hsin’s blog and came across his post on social networks. And it got me thinking. I don’t necessarily agree with his rage against social networks being an old concept. Like it or not MySpace did pioneer [...]

Categories: social networks · web2.0 · yahoo

K.I.S.S.I.N.G. First comes love, then comes… ok, that’s it, just a little love.
Microsoft said they weren’t playing and lo and behold, 1.6% stake in Facebook later, they prove it. But it wasn’t an acquisition, it isn’t even really that massive a stake and despite giving a completely out of this world ridiculous valuation of $15 [...]

Categories: m&a · microsoft · social networks · web2.0

by sean9
They’re all over the news these days, the latest community networking site to make a lot of waves, Facebook. If you’re watching from the outside, you might see another in the long string of community networking sites, from Friendster to Tribe, MySpace and all the rest. So why is facebook pulling any surprises?

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