eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First Social Site to Integrate Blogs with Social Networking & Online Dating Features
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Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.
Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.
09/15/2004 02:13 AMeTwine.com has officially launched its unique online dating and social
networking website after several months of beta testing. eTwine
integrates online dating with social networking, event planning &
management and an interactive blogging tool to create the most
complete social site on the net. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]
eTwine Offers Social Networking And More
eTwine Offers Social Networking And More
09/16/2004 03:25 PMDirect and Related Links for
'eTwine Offers Social Networking And More'
Internet Week reports that “eTwine has officially launched
its social networking Web site”. I must say that on the surface,
it sounds a lot like Friendster or one of the other social hubs that
people are flocking to these days. At any rate, it will be interesting
to see how the whole thing turns out….
Interactive Social Networking Industry
Analyzed via the Value Framework
Interactive Social Networking Industry
Analyzed via the Value Framework
01/22/2004 02:08 PMsure it's academic and pretentious, but we like that sort of stuff,
don't we?
Blogging & Social Networking: Who Cares?
Blogging & Social Networking: Who Cares?
05/22/2004 05:16 PMI'm speaking at the Churchill Club on blogging and social networking,
June 3rd in Palo Alto. Should be lively event, moderated by Dan
Gillmor and Tony Perkins. Other panelists include Jason Calacanis,
Charlene Li, Mark Pincus and Ben Smith. These...
Yahoo 360! Gets into Blogging and Social
Networking
Yahoo 360! Gets into Blogging and Social
Networking
03/17/2005 02:33 AM"Yahoo Inc. is preparing to introduce a new service that blends
several of its Web site's popular features with two of the Internet's
fastest growing activities — blogging and social networking."
Date Now! Online Dating Innovator
eTwine.com Unveils Unique Tool That
Allows Members to Plan Dates & Meet
Singles According to Their Own Personal
Schedule
Date Now! Online Dating Innovator
eTwine.com Unveils Unique Tool That
Allows Members to Plan Dates & Meet
Singles According to Their Own Personal
Schedule
09/21/2004 02:44 AMOnline dating and social networking leader eTwine.com
(http://www.etwine.com) is excited to announce the launch of its
newest feature for singles: Date Now! This unique tool allows singles
to plan their dates according to their own personal schedules. [PRWEB
Sep 21, 2004]
Mix and Match social networking features
Mix and Match social networking features
01/12/2004 03:01 AMCh
ristopher Allen on Social Network Services....
Christopher Allen on Social Network Services…
Posted Jan 11, 2004, 11:11 PM ET by Judith Meskill
Christopher Allen, founder of Alacrity Ventures, an angel capital
investment firm, writes a two part series in his weblog — Evaluating Social Network
Services and Followup to “Evaluating Social
Network Services”……… — on the
accounts he has created with Ryze, Tribe.Net, LinkedIn, and
Friendster. Chris reflects, on what works and what doesn’t work
for him with each of these services. He concludes his first post with
a description of what he feels would be “The Perfect Social
Networking Service”:
My ideal service would have the the multiple professional
affiliation features of LinkedIn, but also allow me to show
non-professional affilations. It would allow me to form intentional
communities like Tribes.Net, but would also let me do a Wiki in
addition to a message board. It would have meeting/party invite
services like eVite, and blogging features like LiveJournal. It would
have an endorsement system like LinkedIn integrated not only with
professional endorsements, but personal endorsements as well, and you
could even endorse intentional communities. It would let me better map
and control my network, giving different friends different privileges.
It would handle the release of my personal information like Ryse, but
less clunky.
What would your “Perfect Social Networking Service” look
like?
[The Social
Software Weblog]
The game of mix and match social network features has
started.
Perhaps some VC will fund a 'social networking' reality TV show -
where three young entreprenuers (one blond hottie, one husky Cowboy
type and a dorky black guy) will star and launch their OWN social
network - as defined by Chris Allen (yes - you're right, it'll
probably be FUNDED by Chris Allen.)
Yahoo 360 blends bl0gging, social
networking
Yahoo 360 blends bl0gging, social
networking
03/17/2005 03:49 AMXinhua News Agency Mar 17 2005 7:19AM GMT
Yahoo To Combine Blogs, Social
Networking (TechWeb)
Yahoo To Combine Blogs, Social
Networking (TechWeb)
03/17/2005 04:08 AMTechWeb - Yahoo said it will launch in beta at the end of the month a
service that combines web logs with social networking.
Blogs + Social Networking + Photo
sharing = Yahoo 360š
Blogs + Social Networking + Photo
sharing = Yahoo 360š
03/17/2005 02:48 AM360.yahoo.com
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Yahoo Service Combines Blogging, Social
Networking
Yahoo Service Combines Blogging, Social
Networking
03/17/2005 03:23 AMYahoo will begin beta testing Yahoo 360, which combines blogging tools
with social networking, as it aims to help people "do a better job of
keeping up with the relationships that they already have."
Churchill Club Event: Blogging & Social
Networking: Who Cares?
Churchill Club Event: Blogging & Social
Networking: Who Cares?
06/20/2004 05:17 AMChurchill
Club Event: Blogging & Social Networking: Who Cares?
Marc Canter, The Devil's (or Angel's?) Advocate
Last night, the Churchill
Club sponsored an event entitled, "Blogging & Social Networking:
Who Cares?" As it turned out, at least 250 people who attended the
event care. In fact, by the time we arrived, the Crowne Plaza Cabana
Hotel parking lot in Palo Alto was already filled with Mercedes, BMWs
and Porsches. (Somebody must have made money during the dot com
boom.)
The whole evening had a "1994" feeling to it. There was a sense of
optimism and enthusiasm that we hadn't seen since we attended the
first Internet World Conference held in San Francisco in September
1994 at the beginning of the Internet boom.
The meeting was a moderated discussion with the following
participants.
Panelists:
* Antony Brydon, CEO, Visible Path Corporation
* Jason Calacanis, Chairman, The Weblogs, Inc. Network
* Marc Canter, CEO, Broadband Mechanics
* Charlene Li, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.
* Ross Mayfield, CEO, Socialtext
* Ajit Nazre, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
* David Pell, Electablog.com
* Mark Pincus, CEO, Tribe Networks
Moderators:
* Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News
* Tony Perkins, Creator & Editor-in-Chief, AlwaysOn
The stage when thus set to talk about what many of the panelists
described as Internet 2.0, with Internet 1.0 spanning the 1994-2002
timeframe. Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News said that blogging
and social networking have now enabled the Tim Berners Lee's initial
vision for the web as a "read-write" environment as opposed to the
"read-only" content consumption focus of Internet 1.0.
Ross Mayfield of Socialtext put further meat on the bone by asking
the question: What changes might we expect when:
1) Weblog software platforms drive the cost of publishing to
zero?
2) Social networking platforms drive the cost of creating and
organizing group activities to zero?
A number of the panelists pointed to the significant impact of
weblogs and social networking on politics with Howard Dean's
presidential campaign held up as a prime example of the savvy use of
these platforms. As a San Jose Mercury News article dated 2/10/2004
said, "The forces the [Dean] campaign unleashed -- and the people who
discovered they had a chance to change things -- aren't going to be
rebottled anytime soon."
Dan Gillmor asked the most interesting question of the night
saying, "How long will it be before a President of the United States
is elected that had a weblog as a teenager?" What makes this an
interesting question is that anything that we contribute to the Web is
effectively "unerasable."
Staying in the political realm, David Pell of Electablog.com
imagined that, "Sometime soon, maybe even now, oppressed women in Arab
countries will begin using anonymous weblogs to draw attention to
their plight in a way that 60 Minutes never could."
Politics aside, the real question on many people's minds was: "Can
you make money doing this stuff?"
There was a significant amount of disagreement on this topic with
the CEOs of the social networking companies predictably saying that
"There's gold in them "thar" hills," and Marc Canter, also
predictably, playing the devil's advocate, telling the VCs to "Stay
away and not screw things up."
My own personal feeling is that the impact of both the social
networking and weblog platforms will be significant but, speaking from
a biased perspective as an entrepreneur in this space, the financial
benefits will accrue to the "little guys." I believe this because, I
share the viewpoint made last night that, both weblog and social
networking software platforms will become open-source commodities. The
value-add will come as entrepreneurs apply these platforms to
under-served niche markets. These markets, by definition, will be
small in scale creating many small profitable private companies but
very few, if any, large public companies.
Perhaps Internet 2.0 will allow thousands of entrepreneurial
flowers to bloom creating an era of "Cottage Commerce," a term coined
in the early 90's by my long-lost friend, Michael Grant, formerly of
Apple Computer and Macromind.
Then again, I could be dead wrong. What do you think?
Use the power of Internet 2.0 to share your comments.
-Tim Fredel, Co-Publisher, RuggedElegantLiving.com
Nutty social network tool/dating service
with funny-ass copyright warning
Nutty social network tool/dating service
with funny-ass copyright warning
05/05/2004 02:07 PMClay Shirky has just blogged an high-larious deconstruction of
SocalGrid, a FOAF-meets-dating-service social networking tool where
users rate their physical attributes (5'10" blonde with "model looks")
and the social attributes of their ideal mate and the service does the
rest. The service commits every socially retarded gaffe imaginable,
has attracted 9 men for every woman who's signed up, but the very best
part is the "warning to copycats:"
SocialGrid has retained one of the top intellectual property law firms
in America. Everything on this site is copyrighted and trademarked,
including our search and coding system. Our patent application claims
coverage on searches for all complex objects using Internet search
engines. Our goal is to ensure a search system that will be free to
our members and keep individuals and corporations from profiting by
charging for searches. We will marginalize every profit margin. There
is no money to made in creating another ID coding system. The world
needs only one system. If necessary, we will give SocialGrid and the
patent to Google to insure one standardized coding system. Any
copycats and clones will have to answer to Google. Please be advised
that any copyright, trademark, and patent infringement will result in
legal action.
LinkOnline Dating Magazine Launches Free
Online Dating Newsletter
Online Dating Magazine Launches Free
Online Dating Newsletter
07/20/2004 02:48 AMWith online dating more competitive than ever (and the industry
growing by $100 million a year), Online Dating Magazine has launched a
newsletter to help users get better results from online dating
services, while improving relationships. [PRWEB Jul 20, 2004]
Thousands Flock to New Social Networking
Web Site ConnectU.com
Thousands Flock to New Social Networking
Web Site ConnectU.com
08/22/2004 02:37 AMConnectU.com is a free online community that connects people through
networks of friends and common interests at over one-hundred different
colleges and universities. ConnectU can be used for friendship, class
work, dating, and developing professional relationships. The Web site
was founded by Harvard alumni Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and
Tyler Winklevoss, in an effort to increase social opportunities at
Harvard and among Boston schools, and has since spread quickly across
the nation. [PRWEB Aug 22, 2004]
SocialGrid Launches Unique New Social
Networking Service
SocialGrid Launches Unique New Social
Networking Service
05/31/2004 07:05 PMSocialGrid is a free decentralized social network that helps people
meet through Google. SocialGrid helps people find their "perfect
match" and extend their social network by making it possible for them
to use Google to search throughout the Internet for people with
similar interests, goals, desirable traits and characteristics.
Discover a whole new way to "Google People".
Online Social Networking MiniGuide
Online Social Networking MiniGuide
08/27/2004 01:30 PMI have just completed my latest Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link
Compilation titled "
Online Social Networking" and
this 13 page research paper lists many resources both new and existing
that will help anyone who is attempting to do information and
knowledge research about
online social networks currently
available the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (674KB)
at the below link from the
Virtual Private
Library™:
Online Social
Networking an Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation
by
Marcus P. Zillman,
M.S., A.M.H.A.http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Online Social
Networks.pdfOnline social networking: Friend or foe?
Online social networking: Friend or foe?
01/26/2004 07:41 PMGoogle recently unveiled an online social networking service, dubbed
Orkut www.orkut.com, that it hopes can successfully compete with the
likes of Friendster. ...
Social people don't need social
networking
Social people don't need social
networking
12/14/2003 09:54 PMKevin Werbach points out that social networking sites like LinkedIn
and Tribe and so forth have very little to offer highly connected
people like Esther Dyson, who would nevertheless be a real asset to
the network:
Esther and Pierre don't need LinkedIn to reach pretty much anyone they
want to contact. Yet there are a whole lot of folks who want to reach
them, and don't have a personal connection to do so. So the service
worsens their email overload with little corresponding benefit.
LinkPolyclothery: online social networking
service in-joke in S, M, L
Polyclothery: online social networking
service in-joke in S, M, L
09/11/2004 09:54 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Nothing says sxxy nrrd like T-shirts with "FLAG PROFILE AS MATURE" on
the front, and the Tribe.net logo on the back. I think former
BoingBoing guestblogger Karen Marcelo is behind this, but I'm not
sure.
Link
Google unveils online social networking
service
Google unveils online social networking
service
01/26/2004 03:31 AMBoston Globe Jan 26 2004 7:34AM GMT
Google launches social software tool
Google launches social software tool
01/26/2004 02:21 AM
Google, the world's leading search engine, has
quietly released a social
software application. Orkut
is invitation-only, and represents a potentially significant intervention within
that new, burgeoning field.
(via OLDaily )
Sharing Ideas Just Got Easier: Blogging,
Keyword Tagging, File Sharing, Social
Networking … And That’s Just For
Starters!
Sharing Ideas Just Got Easier: Blogging,
Keyword Tagging, File Sharing, Social
Networking … And That’s Just For
Starters!
03/23/2005 04:46 AMLaunched this month, Apcala is a web system that allows you to share
photographs, audio, video, documents and personalised profiles with
friends, family, other Apcala users and the Internet at large. It’s
advertising free and free to use. [PRWEB Mar 23, 2005]
New Dating Site is Introducing Features
Never Before Offered to Online Daters
New Dating Site is Introducing Features
Never Before Offered to Online Daters
06/04/2004 02:45 AM4all2date.com offers their members unique design and personal
treatment by a virtual site staff; new photo-zoom technology for
viewing profile photos never before available at an online dating
site; Random Match Poll feature entertaining the odds of being matched
with a random member by collective opinion. 4all2date.com wants
members to have fun and be entertained while they are searching for
that special someone. [PRWEB Jun 4, 2004]
V2N51 December 20, 2004 Current
Awareness Happenings on the Internet:
Online Social Networking
V2N51 December 20, 2004 Current
Awareness Happenings on the Internet:
Online Social Networking
12/22/2004 01:18 AM
Online Social
Networking Internet MiniGuide
This edition of
Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A. December 20, 2004 V2N51 discusses his white paper
Online Social Networking - An Internet MiniGuide
Annotated Link Compilation . Click on the below audio posting to hear
an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this very exciting white paper
featuring many excellent resources and sites for online social and
business networking ... the next wave of the Internet! View this white
paper at:
Online Social Networking - An
Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/09/online-social-networki
ng-internet.html
Get Yer Social Networking Here
Get Yer Social Networking Here
01/24/2004 09:30 PMSometime in December, somebody flipped a big switch and all of a
sudden everyone was inviting me to join their
Linkedin network. Then suddenly
last week the Kozmick Finger pointed at
Orkut, and near as I can tell, all
the geeks on the planet have spent this weekend busily inviting each
other to be Orkut pals. It all seems mostly harmless; mind you, I
haven’t actually got any use out of either of ’em. For what
it’s worth, all the Orkutians seem to be heavy geeks, while about
half the Linkedincrowd is VCs and businesspeople. I don’t think
it’s gonna change the world, but I’ve been wrong before. To those
whose invitations I’ve declined: sorry, nothing personal, it’s
just that I feel I ought to either have spent some face-to-face time
with you or been in some substantial online interaction.
Social Networking?
Social Networking?
08/17/2004 05:42 PMSo I have this account - that I spent some time setting up and
inviting people to by the way - on one of the social networking
services, but I can't remember which one.
AnimalAttraction.com, An Online Dating
Site for Pet Lovers, to Distribute Free
Video News Release Via C-band Satellite
Feed on September 24 & 25
AnimalAttraction.com, An Online Dating
Site for Pet Lovers, to Distribute Free
Video News Release Via C-band Satellite
Feed on September 24 & 25
08/23/2004 02:49 AMAnimalAttracion.com is an online dating site targeting the 40 million
single pet owners in the U.S. and millions more singles who don’t own
pets, but love them just the same. The company is making available to
U.S. television news stations a two-part video news release about
people forming connections through their passion for pets. Advance
viewing of the two-part feature package is available online at
http://www.animalattraction.com/press.asp [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004]
Social Networking Hangover
Social Networking Hangover
02/10/2004 02:41 AMAs many, many people have predicted, there's a point at which all of
these social networking services become... kind of pointless.
Everyone piles in, and "connects" with anyone they've ever emailed and
then you get the big
"um... what do we do now?" question. It appears that
despite the early rush into sites like Friendster, the fad is losing
steam, just as it did five years ago with sixdegrees.com. It's cool
for a few months, and then you realize there's nothing else to do.
The various services are desperately trying to add on features that
will bring back users and keep them engaged, but it turns out that the
thing that seems to attract most people to these sites is the signing
up and linking part - and after that, there's not much interest. The
article includes the interesting stat that, despite five million
registered users, Friendster received less than 1 million unique
visitors in December.
Transcendental Social Networking
Transcendental Social Networking
02/10/2004 09:21 PMStewart Butterfield and Co with some really groovy stuff. Motto: Don't
build application, build contexts for interaction. The architecture of
entertainment has been shaped by the idea of Immersion. Play is about
people, not places [Thumbs Up] to this. Architecture...
Lycos tries to tap into social
networking with new look
Lycos tries to tap into social
networking with new look
02/11/2004 08:34 PMAnother recently debuted site is Orkut.com, designed by a Google
engineer, though the site's connection to the search company is
unclear. ...
Social Television Networking
Social Television Networking
06/28/2004 05:22 AMWhile lots of media companies have been trying to figure out how the
whole "social networking" phenomenon impacts their business, it looks
like AOL is trying to take the concept to the next level while also
being true to their plans of "convergence." They've patented the
concept of
buddy
list TV sharing. The idea is that you could see what your friends
were watching on TV and immediately tune in yourself. It's not too
hard to see how this would work. Already, the latest version of Yahoo
Messenger includes the ability to see what music your friends are
listening to and immediately tuning in yourself. This idea tries to
go a bit further. For instance, someone could set up a chat room
around a particular TV show, and could then play that show, while
everyone else could discuss it in real-time. To understand what
you're watching, it would require a set-top box that would tie into
your internet connection as well. Of course, it's unclear how such a
system will work in an age of TiVo when no-one watches a show at the
same time.
Decentralised social networking
Decentralised social networking
01/05/2004 10:24 PMI know I'm late to the party, but my recent experiments with
LinkedIn and Friendster have got me all interested in the potential of
software that bulids on top of people's own social networks. There's
just one thing that's been bugging me, best explained by this quote from Om Malik:
The question I have is: why the F**K should I share my network of
contacts with these commercial entities. They are like BlogSpot that
does nothing for my brand equity and in many ways chews me out after
making the network connections. Thus what I want is a "MoveableType"
of social networking. Blogs took off because it was about one person -
me. My social networks should be of my making for me. Lets figure out
a way to cut out the middlemen.
Via John Battelle, here's the
answer: Plink, a social search engine which uses information crawled
from decentralised FOAF
files. It's nicely put together and could be just the incentive I need
to finally put together my own FOAF file.
Plink is also a nice example of the kind of thing the semantic web
hopes to offer. People provide information in easily parsed formats,
then others bulid third party applications on top of them that may
never have been envisaged by the creators of the original standards.
Feedster is another great
example of this effect in action.
social networking as a web service
social networking as a web service
01/27/2004 02:23 AM
These folks totally groks it..... (their names
are Grant and Cyndie Berg.)
back and
forth over the social portal play. Zawodny on the point
missed: Stokes misses it not just once
, but twic
e.
Om nearl
y follows him off the "they just want my rolodex and why should I
give it to them" cliff, but veers at the last instant and manages to
strike a glancing blow at a worthy target by alluding to social
networking services embedded in client applications -- and spawns some
interesting comments.
Marc Canter's beating the FOAF drum
again. I'm looking forward to peopleaggregator's next
rev. Sifry's apparently working on FOAFing up Technorati, too. It isn't an
accident that Sifry's tagline is web services for
bloggers.
Anyway... back on topic...
Look, Friendster didn't get
$10m solely on the basis of its current business model. It sure as
shit didn't get it on the basis of its software / infrastructure [and
I hope they're spending some of that money on some
engineers].
They got it because, as Jon Udell and others have
pointed out (can't find link -- may be misattributing),
user-contributed data is a valid currency for the next generation of
online [web] service[s] businesses. And anyone who can succeed at
being a primary conduit for user contributed data which has bearing on
purchase decisions and product / technology adoption/popularity has a
great opportunity.
What Stokes seemed to miss, which Jeremy
alluded to initially and Marc re-iterates from another
vector:
"The place to make the money
is by adding value added, functionality, tools, services - what have -
AROUND these most basic of all instinctful notions. Not by charging
for the right to do them - in the first place!
So a
PeopleFinder or FriendRanking or Introduction manager or Private email
or IM enabler kind of platform - would be augmented with value added
tools - to become a new business model. This what I mean by 'new kinds
of tools."
... is that web services technologies
are going to enable a Friendster, an Amazon, and a Google to operate
in a unified manner delivering synergistic services to groups of
connected (define it any way you want) people with shared
interests.
This is what people are hopping up and down about,
and I think there's some solid cause [lineofsight - code + words +
pictures]
I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy. 2004 is looking to be pretty
interesting.
Is Social Networking a Snore?
Is Social Networking a Snore?
06/25/2004 05:22 PMDavid Hornik (Venture Blog): All
Social Networking Panels Are the Same. So in an effort to save
you a bunch of time and aggravation, here's a transcription of this
evening's event. I believe that it is essentially a transcription of
all past and all future social software panels, so read it and free
yourself of the need to ever attend such an event yourself.
Really, read it for yourself...
Fees come to social networking
Fees come to social networking
01/27/2004 12:09 AMTickle, the Friendster competitor formerly known as Emode, is first
out of the gate with fees for some social networking services.
Anti-social networking
Anti-social networking
06/17/2005 04:25 PMGlenn Fleishman writes in the NY Times about a Seattle cafe that gives
free wifi on weekdays but is wifi-free on weekends in order to
encourage conversation......
Social networking for fish
Social networking for fish
11/17/2003 03:07 PMKen Rinaldo's amazing 'augmented reality robotic fish tanks' will have
their first showing in Lille on the 6th Dec: "Augmented...
Bringing social networking to everything
Bringing social networking to everything
04/25/2004 02:40 AMI'm sorry I disagree.....[read response after
article].......
The next
big thing in online social networking.
According to Reuters Social networking sites, which look to
introduce friends of friends or people with common interests, have
grabbed the attention of Internet users and venture capitalists but
many are still looking for ways to make money.
Online dating siteTickle (
>2million profiles) launched a People Search
service on its network that includes AskJeeves' . The partnership fuses the
uncertain social networking phenomenon with a search model that has
proven invaluable to both consumers and marketers on the public
Internet.
Kolabora news expert Scott Allen blogs in his Social Networking
News: According to Tickle CEO James Currier, “Search is a natural
way for online social networking to move forward”. (..) "Tickle
people search brings online search full circle, back to letting us
find the right people to talk to.”
Reuters press release (April
22)
read more in the full articles quoted from three blogs
- Ask Jeeves Brings Search to Tickle (ClickZNews)<
BR>- Jeeves, what’s the next big thing in online social
networking? (Online Business
Networks)
- Education — the real "next big thing" in
online social networking (Online Business
Networks)
[Smart Mobs]
I'm certainly in favor of putting social networking into context -
but search is not a context. It's sort of like getting it
backwards.
It's not about bringing search to social networking. It's
about bringing social networking to everything.
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AlstraSoft E-Friends
AlstraSoft E-Friends
03/06/2004 01:49 AMStart
You Own Social Networking Company: For $280!.
Start Your Own Social Networking Company: For
$280!
Why are the venture capitalists investing millions in social
networking startups when you can start your own SNA service for $280
(with 1 year updates, no less), courtesey of the nice folks at
AltraSoft:
AlstraSoft E-Friends - Run your own online social
networking community just like Friendster. Members create their own
personal friends network, meet new friends, dating and join
groups
AlstraSoft E-Friends
Cost (single license): [was $600] $280 (with 1 year updates)
Language: PHP
Platform: Unix
Release: Feb 15, 2004
Current
Version: v3.0
Last Update: Feb 15, 2004
Product Overview
AlstraSoft E-Friends is an online social networking software that
allows you to start your own site just like Friendster and Tribe.net.
The E-Friends software allows members to connect to people in their
personal networks and community, creating a new online interactive
resource that is based on a trusted network of friends and associates
on the internet.
Members can use this abundant network to make friends, find their
love ones, locate jobs, buy and sell stuff, locate a roommate, and
accomplish much more with the help of groups and individuals who they
know and share the same interests.
Start your own social networking community just like Friendster and
Tribe.net in minutes with AlstraSoft E-Friends now!
How does E-Friends work?
Once members are registered with E-Friends, they will be able
invite people they know to join their personal or professional
network. A member's friends will come to E-Friends and invite their
friends. As the network grows, members will have more opportunities to
interact easily with people they know, make friends, and use the
E-Friends network to enrich their social life."
This is absolute proof that we have reached the bizarro stage of
the social networking exponential buzz curve. [Get Real]
With Social Networking systems available for $280 - what's next -
free, open source social networks?
Oh yah - that's what we're working on - it's called the PeopleAggregator.
I sure hope E-Friends supports FOAF!
AlstraSoft EPay Pro v2.0 has file
include and multiple xss vulnerabilities
AlstraSoft EPay Pro v2.0 has file
include and multiple xss vulnerabilities
04/02/2005 05:37 PMdcrab (Apr 01 2005)
MySpace - is #1
MySpace - is #1
03/06/2004 01:49 AM
According to a PR Newswire this morning Nielsen NetRatings confirms
“Myspace.com‘s market leadership in
Social Networking category”:
LOS ANGELES, March 1 /PRNewswire/ — MySpace.com,
formally launched just over one month ago, today announces it is the
number one ranked social networking site in terms of page views,
according to Nielsen NetRatings, the leading online measurement
tool.
“The latest Nielsen statistics validate what our
users have been telling us for months,” said Chris DeWolfe,
co-founder and President of MySpace.com. “By allowing our users
to dictate the features they want, we’ve been able to develop an
offering that keeps them coming back.”
MySpace.com has garnered an ardent and loyal fan base very
quickly thanks to the technological superiority of its offering.
MySpace.com is the only site of its kind to integrate blogs, instant
messaging, classified listings, voting, groups, user forums, music and
other user-created content. MySpace.com has also taken an active role
in sponsoring music shows, parties and other events for its online
users to socialize offline.
“To become the leader in the social networking space
in just five months is an accomplishment we’re thrilled about,
but we see it as only the beginning,” commented Tom Anderson,
co-founder of MySpace.com. In addition to its technological
advantages, MySpace.com allows a level of flexibility that is
unmatched in the online social networking world. Users are allowed to
create personalized web page profiles, which they can then use to link
up and communicate with others of similar hobbies and interests. As
the site is entirely advertiser-supported, use of the site is
free.
[The Social
Software Weblog]
This exposes what we've all known all along - that nobody goes to
Friendster anymore. And that it's lack of funtionality and
features - makes it a joke.
Now I'm not sure if its MySpace's features, or people themselves -
but they sure look like they're having fun over there.
MySpace????
MySpace????
04/24/2004 03:25 AMMySpace:
The Show. Social networking is definitely going mainstream. I see
in Variety that a reality show is being developed based on people
meeting through social networking service MySpace. [Note: the article
led me to sign up for MySpace, and I will review... [Get Real]
I'd be interested in what Stowe thinks about MySpace. I call
it the "kitchen sink" of social networking. I'm amazed at just
how many features and capabilities it has. For what it seems to
lack in heart, soul and passion - it makes up with Rankings, Blogs and
Games. They even have classifieds! And Yahoo ads all over
the place!
But there's something about that place - which (BTW) they claim
they have more traffic than Friendster right now.
MySpace continues to kick ass
MySpace continues to kick ass
06/30/2004 02:40 AMNetworking website offers marketing opportunities for
musicians.
The networking website trend, while not
exactly new anymore, is still thriving. While Friendster.com was the
first to reel users into the world of organized online socializing,
MySpace.com has since caught up. Many formal Friendster loyalists have
since moved over to MySpace for its added features such as instant
messaging, blogs, and classifieds. (That~s not to say that Friendster
doesn~t still have its own dedicated fan base.) One of the site~s most
recently added features, MySpace Music, is utilizing the networking
space to spread the word about music artists.
Consumers tell us that they mostly find out about new music through
their friends, which is exactly what MySpace Music allows users to do
online. While musicians can also create profiles on Friendster for
friends-of-friends to see, MySpace Music takes the concept a step
further by offering band Web pages and music downloads, thus turning
the site into a potential marketing tool. Similar to how Napster users
can view other users~ music libraries, MySpace users can view each
others ~friends~, thus providing MySpace Music artists with
considerable exposure and access to their fans. With the buzz on
MySpace Music, we expect to see more networking sites offering similar
marketing opportunities in the future.
[trendcentral]
NBC partners with MySpace to stream
NBC partners with MySpace to stream
03/17/2005 03:19 AM
The Office on
MySpace Even though the leaked pilot met
poor reviews on
Metafilter, it's interesting that NBC turned to massive social
networking group MySpace to launch the American version of The Office.
MySpace will stream the whole first episode of The Office on March
16th at 8PM while the episode will air for the first time on NBC
March 24th. Maybe BitTorrent has really gotten
to them.
MySpace party tonight
MySpace party tonight
06/04/2004 12:17 PM
This is where I'll be tonight - recruiting Tom to start a DLA TV
show.
MySpace pushes it all forward
MySpace pushes it all forward
07/10/2004 04:45 AM
Just got this in my mail - and it's 2AM - so I guess Judith must be
asleep - or else she would have blogged it already.
MySpace now has improved their Groups - and added it to their
lineup of better blogging, classifieds, very coolio music features and
special 'band groups'.
MySpace has proven that it really is about the activities and
giving people something to do. IM, Ranking and Games seem to be the
core activities.
Business model? Ads. Sposnorships. Special Band Groups. Watch
for even mroe ''premium' features that folks will pay for. How many
of them - you ask? Over 2M.
Man oh man - I just can't wait for the Reality TV show.
Just gotta convince Tom to support the FOAFnet.
Turkish PM visits Greek Muslims
Turkish PM visits Greek Muslims
05/08/2004 05:30 PMRecep Tayyip Erdogan becomes the first Turkish leader in over 50 years
to visit the Turkish-speaking area.
Turkish Cypriots spurn Greek plan
Turkish Cypriots spurn Greek plan
07/16/2004 08:17 PMTurkish Cypriot leaders dismiss a Greek Cypriot proposal to pull back
troops from both sides of the dividing line.
Greek and Turkish Cypriot Leaders Agree
on End to Split
Greek and Turkish Cypriot Leaders Agree
on End to Split
02/13/2004 01:26 PMThe leaders agreed to a plan by the U.N.'s secretary general intended
to end the 30-year division of the Mediterranean island.
Center for International Development at
Harvard University
Center for International Development at
Harvard University
05/01/2004 06:23 AMCenter for International Development at Harvard University
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/ Established in 1998 by
the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Kennedy
School of Government, the Center for International Development (CID)
is Harvard's primary center for research on sustainable international
development. The CID is currently headed by Professor Dani Rodrik, who
provides oversight and direction for the Center. On the site, visitors
can learn about upcoming international development conferences
sponsored by the Center, read about the various persons working at the
Center, learn about various research programs, along with reading
various reports associated with each area of inquiry. The site also
contains a host of links to online research data sets for persons
working in the field of international development, and to the Center's
working papers and special reports. Some of the more compelling
working papers address the situation of sustainable development in
sub-Saharan Africa and the rise and fall of the Indonesian economy.
This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004 Internet
MiniGuide and has been added to
Research Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The Scout Report,
Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003.
http://scout.wisc.edu/]
A Harvard University study released
yesterday
A Harvard University study released
yesterday
11/02/2003 03:13 AMP.C.U.? ..
reports
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44914-2003Oct30.html
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Harvard University Approves Student Sex
Magazine (Reuters)
Harvard University Approves Student Sex
Magazine (Reuters)
02/13/2004 09:19 AMReuters - Harvard University's newest magazine may
be called the "H Bomb" but its topic is more anatomical than
atomic.
St. Thomas University School of Law
Diplomacy Monitor
St. Thomas University School of Law
Diplomacy Monitor
01/07/2004 03:07 PMSometimes you just gotta let the title speak for itself. And the
announcement. "The St. Thomas University School of Law Diplomacy
Monitor utilizes specially developed proprietary software to monitor
the...
Radio Interview with John Brady Kiesling
and John H. Brown
Radio Interview with John Brady Kiesling
and John H. Brown
03/15/2003 06:05 AMKALW in San Francisco did an
hour
long radio interview with John Brady Kiesling and John H. Brown,
the American Foreign Service officers who resigned over Bush's Iraq
policy. Both are impressive speakers, and Kiesling is as articulate
and as convincing as his letter:
If we can't convince
our historical allies that this is a good thing to do, there is no way
we are going to be able to convince the Arab world.
People have to take a stand. War may be inevitable, but we need to do
what we can to keep our consciences clean.
There is a policy to make America safer, but this is not it.
"America is still the safest country in the world. The
administration is trying to scare people with this talk about terror
and duct tape. We should use our safety and prosperity and our
strength to do good and we can do good."
Brown said his resignation was "in part a result of Andrew Card's
comment, 'Never launch a product in August.' War is not a
product."
I learned a lot from listening to it. Recommended. Requires
Real Player.
Register for the ILAW Conference at
Harvard University/Berkman Law Center,
June 22-24, 2005
Register for the ILAW Conference at
Harvard University/Berkman Law Center,
June 22-24, 2005
06/05/2005 11:40 PM
Cambridge, Mass. will be the site for this year's Internet Law
Program. Our very own Lawrence Lessig, CC Chairman and CEO, will be
one of several notable professors and scholars of the Internet who
will be lecturing on the ever-developing landscape of Internet law. No
prior background in the subject of Internet Law is required; however,
American lawyers may be eligible for Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
credit. To register and/or download a program brochure please visit
the Berkman Center website here
Interview with Dilip Thomas of WROX
about PHP
Interview with Dilip Thomas of WROX
about PHP
02/07/2003 09:40 AM
Interview with Dilip Thomas of WROX about PHP
Ivan, of the new PHP Traveller blog, just published a good interview
about WROX's direction with their PHP books:
Q: You seem to have been very busy publishing PHP books. Are there any
other books about PHP in the works?
Dilip Thomas: There are *many* more PHP books in the pipeline. We have
a solid commitment to publishing the best PHP books, and that too on
diverse topics. In my opinion, Wrox == PHP in the same sense as ORA ==
PERL. The next best PHP book to look out for is the "PHP MySQL Website
Programming - Problem Design Solutions", that is slated to release in
March '03 - It dissects the creation of a complete application driven
website (using PHP/MySQL/Apache) from design to deployment (using the
very popular Problem - Design - Solution approach).
Q: What will "PHP Web Graphics Handbook" and "PHP String Handbook" be
about?
Dilip Thomas: Wrox Handbook's are new way of providing in-depth
information on a specific task of a technology, by documenting the
options, problems, best practices (to circumvent the problems) in that
particular domain. It endeavours to be a reference for life and
transgresses the rather shallow task-specific coverage that specific
tasks are accorded to, in our Professional books. The "PHP Web
Graphics Handbook" (scheduled for March '03) is an extension of the
"Professional PHP Multimedia Programming" book that was released in
September '02. It will show readers how to write PHP code that will
create professional-looking web graphics and images "on the fly"
(using GD, IM, netpbm, JpGraph etc).
The "PHP String Handbook" will take a close look at text manipulation,
and use of regular expressions in PHP. It will also cover advanced
Regexes and patterns. [_Go_]
Nice job. Thanks man. If I get a copy of these books from WROX, I'll
publish a review. And WROX also now has WROXBASE, an equivalent to
O'Reilly's Safari as best I can tell.
Interview with Dilip Thomas from Wrox
Interview with Dilip Thomas from Wrox
02/06/2003 06:16 PM
Like many others, I noticed a series of PHP related books published by
Wrox in 2002. Curious about what will happen next I got in touch with
people from Wrox to ask them about their strategy.
Thomas Hawk interview of Jeremy Allaire
Thomas Hawk interview of Jeremy Allaire
04/12/2005 04:58 PM
I'm turning into a bit of
a Jerey Allaire stalker - so much so that folks send me interviews of
him.
So thanks Thomas for reminding me how coolio BrightCove is. Here's Thomas' interview.
Interview With BBC Dirac Developer
Thomas Davis
Interview With BBC Dirac Developer
Thomas Davis
09/20/2004 11:21 PM
Interview with Intel's Thomas Loza; High
Definition Audio
Interview with Intel's Thomas Loza; High
Definition Audio
06/08/2004 03:17 PM
Chris Anderson's XAML Editor Tool
Updated for the March CTP
Chris Anderson's XAML Editor Tool
Updated for the March CTP
03/29/2005 06:25 AM
Chris Anderson has updated XamlPad for the March 2005 CTP of Avalon
and renamed it AvPad. As a tool for learning and experimenting with
XAML/Avalon, it can't be beat.
Reason: John Perry Barlow 2.0: The
Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents
his body -- and his politics.
Reason: John Perry Barlow 2.0: The
Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents
his body -- and his politics.
08/13/2004 01:46 AM
Reason: John Perry Barlow 2.0: The Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace
reinvents his body -- and his
politicsreason.com/0408/fe.bd.john.shtml
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" hardball with chris matthews interview
with dr. dean"
" hardball with chris matthews interview
with dr. dean"
12/02/2003 10:19 PM
Dean's World: Interview with Chris Muir
Dean's World: Interview with Chris Muir
03/13/2003 10:21 AM
An Interview With Chris Muir Of 'Day By Day' .. Dean Esmay interviews
Chris Muir .. very nice interview .. interviewtrack this
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Interview with Chris Muir - Bernard
Chapin - MensNewsDaily.com™
Interview with Chris Muir - Bernard
Chapin - MensNewsDaily.com™
08/01/2004 03:33 AM
in this interview .. Check it
outmensnewsdaily.com/archive/c-e/chapin/2004/chapin072904.htm
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Interview with Mozilla Foundation
Director of Engineering Chris Hofmann
Interview with Mozilla Foundation
Director of Engineering Chris Hofmann
05/05/2004 02:39 AM
"Quotes from the Zell Miller/Chris
Matthews interview and video link"
"Quotes from the Zell Miller/Chris
Matthews interview and video link"
09/03/2004 08:22 AM
John Kerry for President - Speech at New
York University
John Kerry for President - Speech at New
York University
09/20/2004 04:58 PM
Kerry's New York University speech today on Iraq .. remarks as
prepared .. newest
attemptjohnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0920.html
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eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First Social Site to Integrate Blogs with Social Networking & Online Dating Features
