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Ning is a Social Media community. Kinda like Blogspot, except they cater to making it feel more like a Social Network rather than a Blog Network. You can sign up, create your community and invite all your friends to enter pictures, forum posts and lots more. WidgetLaboratory is a site that offers Products that are free and site licenses priced
That is presuming you are still actually looking. If you look at this article from O'reilly you will see that while the number of subscribers are increasing the number of active users is slowly declining. Meaning that more people are falling off the site than are joining. If I take a quick poll among my peers this matches what is
I kinda knew this was going to happen. I pondered doing something on twitter myself, but also knew it was going to be a big undertaking. -- I am doing this post 140 characters at a time. I am separating it at every post length. Why? Well, would you continue to read this post at -- 140 characters at a
CNet is reporting that Facebook has banned the "Top Friends" by Slide because it violated the app agreement. The installed application would apparently bypass information a user set to private. CNet found the error and reported it to Facebook. The Social Media giant then suspended the app from running on the site. There have been a couple other applications that
While it is a bit of a slow news week, the addition of chat functionality to facebook seems to be getting a lot of interest. Is this really a functionality that is particularly life changing? There is some good use for this if most of your friends are on FB and this has become your main tool of connection, but
Read an interesting article on how to build up your popularity on facebook. The suggestions seem well thought out, and if you are trying to increase your profile, would be well worth following. What it doesn’t go into though, is why you would want to. Unless you are trying to engage in a Myspace-esque “who’s got the most friends” game, I am not sure why you would want to use Facebook in this way.
A group of prominent bloggers have proposed a bill of rights for users of the social web. It is a very concise and focussed statement that accurately covers the issues most people would have regarding their personal information. I have two uncertainties with this document though.