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...definitively friends, having taken a public vow of friendship on friend-based websites, wearing metaphorical friendship bracelets on the earnest Facebook, the punky MySpace, the careerist LinkedIn and the suddenly very Asian Friendster. As if that wasn't enough friendship for you, some of you have also asked me to be friends on the nerdy Twitter, the dorky-élitist Doostang and the Eurotrashy hi5. You message me and comment about me and write on my walls and dedicate songs to me and invite me to join groups. More than once you have taken it upon yourself to poke...
...politicians and musicians and other adults have MySpace pages. But MySpace sees its core market as people in their 20s. Hardly anybody of my acquaintance (I'm 43 and don't know a lot of politicians or musicians) hangs out there. I do know lots of people on LinkedIn, a business-networking site. But LinkedIn is about finding jobs and making deals and getting answers to business questions. It's not a place to while away your days...
...prime asset is MySpace, a site that lets members share their blogs, photos and favorite music. In March, Yahoo! bought Flickr, a photo-sharing website, for an undisclosed sum. All that activity makes sense, given the rapid growth and expansion of both personal blogs and networking sites like Friendster, LinkedIn and MySpace. Harnessing the power of social networking is viewed as a key component of the soon-to-explode local advertising market, which will be worth $10.9 billion globally by 2009, according to analysts Kelsey Group. The individual pages contained on any of these sites or their blogging cousins...
Such largesse is not unheard of in Silicon Valley. Especially when the business of social networking is involved. In October and November 2003, venture capital firms poured nearly $36 million dollars into four social networking websites—Tribe, LinkedIn, Friendster, and Spoke, according to the companies’ websites. Mark Kvamme, a partner at Sequoia capital, has gone so far as to dub the phenomenon “Internet 2.0,” and everyone from Microsoft to Google wants...
aSmallWorld is one of several sites accused by sharp-tongued bloggers, like New York's Gawker, of velvet-roping the Internet. Another site is LinkedIn, which connects in-the-know businesspeople looking for partners and employees. Google has an invitation-only network, orkut, and recently launched an exclusive e-mail service, Gmail. If your invitation to snooty sites gets, um, lost in the mail, you can always check out social-networking free-for-alls such as tribe or MySpace or get-together stalwart Meetup...