Blogs + Social Networking + Photo sharing = Yahoo 360š
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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.
Yahoo Buys Social Photo-Sharing Service
(NewsFactor)
Yahoo Buys Social Photo-Sharing Service
(NewsFactor)
03/22/2005 03:15 PMNewsFactor - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) is acquiring a Canadian
photo-sharing company that lets people share digital images with
select groups or the whole world, expanding its portfolio of
self-publishing and "social networking" services.
Photo sharing social software service
Flickr acquired by Yahoo
Photo sharing social software service
Flickr acquired by Yahoo
03/22/2005 04:56 PM
Flickr , a
popular web site for publishing and sharing digital photographs, was
purchased by Yahoo .
This represents a connection between the worlds of search and
social software, recalling Google's
purchase of popular blog service
Blogger in 2003. Additionally, Flickr is well-known for
pioneering user-generated metadata, or
folksonomy , which may be significant for the larger world of Web
search.
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]
eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features
eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features
08/13/2004 12:47 PMeTwine.com integrates new interactive blogging tool with its existing
social networking, online dating, and event planning features.
Members can share their blogs entries with friends and other members,
as well as rate other blogs, add comments to any entry, and sort
entries by most popular and highest rated in this unique feature.
[PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]
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]
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."
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! 360, Social Networking and Viral
Marketing
Yahoo! 360, Social Networking and Viral
Marketing
04/01/2005 10:39 PMSearch Engine Journal Apr 2 2005 2:58AM GMT
FlashPoint launches fastest photo
sharing on the Internet. Innovative
Qurio Instant Photo Server allows
instant photo sharing with anyone, any
time, anywhere, directly from the
control of your own PC.
FlashPoint launches fastest photo
sharing on the Internet. Innovative
Qurio Instant Photo Server allows
instant photo sharing with anyone, any
time, anywhere, directly from the
control of your own PC.
09/09/2004 03:46 AMFlashPoint prepares to unlock the pictures of more than 40 million
digital camera owners who have their pictures trapped in their PC.
Consumers are tired of trying to share their pictures with cumbersome
email attachments and time consuming uploads to web sites. The
innovative Qurio Instant Photo Server allows you to instantly share
thousands of full resolution pictures over the Internet, directly from
your own PC. And, since your pictures stay right on your own hard
drive, you remain in complete control of your personal pictures.
[PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]
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."
Yahoo Buys Flickr To Boost Social
Networking
Yahoo Buys Flickr To Boost Social
Networking
03/25/2005 04:56 PMCIO Today Mar 25 2005 9:19PM GMT
Yahoo buys photo-sharing site
Yahoo buys photo-sharing site
03/22/2005 09:35 PMBangkok Post Mar 23 2005 1:48AM GMT
Yahoo acquires photo-sharing site Flickr
Yahoo acquires photo-sharing site Flickr
03/22/2005 03:41 PMFlickr on Sunday confirmed that Yahoo has agreed to purchase the
online photo-sharing service...
Yahoo Buying Photo-Sharing Service
Flickr (AP)
Yahoo Buying Photo-Sharing Service
Flickr (AP)
03/23/2005 07:32 AMAP - Yahoo Inc. is acquiring a Canadian photo-sharing company that
lets people share digital images with select groups or the whole
world, expanding its portfolio of self-publishing and "social
networking" services.
Yahoo Buys Flickr Photo Sharing Site
Yahoo Buys Flickr Photo Sharing Site
03/22/2005 04:24 PMJust days after announcing its plans to launch a blog service called
360, Yahoo confirmed it has purchased online photo sharing site
Flickr. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Flickr will
be integrated into the Yahoo Network, and many of its features brought
to Yahoo Photos.
Yahoo Buys Photo-Sharing Site Flickr
Yahoo Buys Photo-Sharing Site Flickr
03/22/2005 03:46 PMAccording to Flickr's Web Site, Yahoo has agreed to buy Ludicorp, and
Flickr's photo-sharing Web Site.
Yahoo acquires Flickr photo sharing
service
Yahoo acquires Flickr photo sharing
service
03/22/2005 05:04 PMYahoo Corp. has acquired the Flickr photo sharing Web site and
Ludicorp Research and Development Ltd., the privately held Vancouver
company that runs it, according to a posting on Flickr's staff blog.
PiXPO image sharing software enables
instant photo sharing, chatting and now
adds free web-hosting of shared images
PiXPO image sharing software enables
instant photo sharing, chatting and now
adds free web-hosting of shared images
07/22/2004 02:41 AMHow2Share Technologies Inc. announced today the release of the PiXPO™
1.5. PiXPO combines photo album management, secure photo sharing, and
instant messaging to enable fast photo sharing without delays. [PRWEB
Jul 22, 2004]
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.
LinkPicasa: Automated Digital Photo
Organizer software, instant photo
albums, sharing & printing: Download
Picasa: Automated Digital Photo
Organizer software, instant photo
albums, sharing & printing: Download
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Flickr (Flicker) photo sharing IM
instant messenger instant message
friendster realtime media sharing real
time online community
Flickr (Flicker) photo sharing IM
instant messenger instant message
friendster realtime media sharing real
time online community
02/11/2004 10:49 AMflickr
flickr.com
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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.
Rescuing Social Networking
Rescuing Social Networking
06/17/2005 03:27 PM
Recent reports of the demise of
Social Networking Applications (SNAs), voted "technology of the year"
by Business 2.0 just two years ago, are increasing. Most recently
C|Net's Molly Wood reported on Five Reasons
Social Networking Doesn't Work. While LinkedIn and eCademy are
hanging in there, many of the other entrants into the SNA space are
really struggling. I reported
last year on what I thought was wrong with the first generation of
social networking applications, and I haven't seen any significant
improvements become mainstream since then.
Wood complains that existing SNAs offer the user little to do, take
too
much time, don't provide a customized audience, are socially awkward,
and don't provide much that other features of the Internet don't do as
well or better. It's not clear what problem they're trying to solve,
other than to provide a list of not-very-well qualified contacts for
people online who are looking (mostly for customers, employers or
dates). They remind me a lot of Chamber of Commerce meetings, with
consultants and agents outnumbering 'real' businesspeople, five
sellers
for every buyer. I belong to several SNAs but use them rarely, since
my
blog provides me with a more robust network than any SNA could ever
hope to do.
The challenge, as with most business and social problems, is getting
attention. Because good stories, useful, researched advice and
helpful,
informative conversations command attention, these are the tools of
the
trade in face-to-face networking events. Face to face meetings also
provide a huge amount of non-verbal information that allows people to
make considered judgements and to establish trust, which virtual
forums
can only accomplish awkwardly, and over time.
The lowly telephone, and Skype, are an improvement. Most of us can
converse iteratively faster and more competently in a voice
conversation than in a message thread, and get past the awkwardness
and
misunderstandings faster as a result. I've had some excellent Skype
conversations with people I have never met in person, and some ghastly
ones. I have proposed
a more robust, multimedia, multi-view Simple Virtual Presence (SVP)
tool such as what is illustrated above. There are people more
technologically competent and agile than I am who are achieving such
presence using a combination of tools now, but for most of us this is
still just a dream.
SNAs are therefore inherently not very good for building relationships
or for collaborative work. How are they at finding people for valuable
personal or business relationships? Once again we're back to the too
many sellers, too few buyers problem (it's the same with dating
services, I'm told). Useful SNAs need to be under the control of the
customer, not the vendor. They would be better advised to reinvent
themselves as a kind of very detailed person-to-person 'yellow pages',
to separate users' 'what I have' and 'what I need' personas, and to
focus specifically on the former, in a lot more detail, with
credentials and samples of offerings. In a way, that's what blogs do,
providing a space for one individual to exhibit as much of himself as
possible in as much detail as possible, which is why many recruiters
are now starting to peruse blogs in the search for extraordinary
people
or matches for very difficult fits. So a good SNA could offer a
condensed version of this: Who I am, What I offer, Who recommends me,
and Samples of what I do. Then the buyer can browse this 'catalogue'
and, if he thinks I might have what he's looking for (personally or
professionally) he is given contact information (ideally with the
richness of Simple Virtual Presence) to confirm through conversation
that my offer meets his requirements. Simple as that. Forget about the
discussion forums and the form-filling and all the other bells and
whistles that just complicate use and chew up time. Just give me a
yellow pages on steroids.
Once some standards emerge on formats for this information, it could
then be possible for people to post this information anywhere, in the
agreed-upon 'SNA2' format, so that we would no longer have to post my
information to each SNA 'yellow page' directory -- the SNA tools could
go out and harvest it automatically wherever we posted it, so we would
only have to maintain it once
(perhaps on our blog-jacke
t, personal website, or other online space).
So then we would have three
easy-to-use SNA tools, working in tandem, all built around the
'customer', the guy looking
for something:
- The
standard-format 'yellow pages' displaying our personal 'offerings',
- A Simple
Virtual Presence tool to qualify those offerings and to enable
powerful conversations, and
- Blogs as
'personal filing cabinets' that people could browse if
we were away from our phone/SVP tool, or if they wanted to see some
more of our stuff before attempting to call us and offer us a job, a
contract or a date.
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What
would really make SVP cool would be if we could meter
it, so that
the tool could track time we spent on each call and, with the
agreement
of the
other party, automatically bill them and pay us for our time at an
agreed-upon rate. Because it's the value you add person-to-person,
helping them in their personal context, once the introductions are
over
and they know they've found the person they want to 'hire', that could
finally realize the promise of online commerce.
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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.
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......
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. ...
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.
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...
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.
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.
Social Networking Blues
Social Networking Blues
01/25/2004 05:16 PMI'm on Ryze. I'm on LinkedIn. I never touched Friendster. For some
reason, Orkut appealed to me. Perhaps its the "in affiliation with
Google" tagline? It's getting to the point where we need a Trillian
for these types of sites. FriendFan is coming. Microsoft already has
Wallop. When will it ever end? How many friends does one really need?
Infinity (plus one). Won't you be my neighbor?...
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 sites are not very
secure
Social networking sites are not very
secure
01/04/2004 06:13 AMlack of security social network sites have .. virtual identity theft
.. SecurityFocus .. Cet article
securityfocus.com/news/7739
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My Take on Social Networking Business
Models
My Take on Social Networking Business
Models
01/25/2004 06:22 PMThe launch of Orkut has re-ignited the debates about whether or not
there's any money in this whole "social networking" game. More
specifically, many folks wonder if a purely social networking company
can make money without becoming part of a larger (Google, AOL, Yahoo,
Microsoft, eBay) company. I'm of two minds on this issue. First, this
social networking craze is really just the beginning. The services we
see today are too numerous and require far too much of our time,...
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