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Marc Andreessen, past and present: Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, sits down with John Battelle, founder and chairman of Federated Media publishing at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Andreessen talks about his current social-networking site Ning, and the impact of Facebook apps and Google’s OpenSocial.; Tags: Marc Andreessen, Ning, OpenSocial, Facebook, Browser, Google, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Expo; Videos 2008-04-24
Lonelygirl15 gets some "exclusive" MySpace company: The season finale of the hit web video series, Lonelygirl15, is to be available exclusively on MySpace. Lonelygirl15 already has an ad-revenue sharing deal with YouTube and Revver, so this is a major coup for the News Corp-owed social networking site. And in an interesting and innovative twist, the final...; Tags: YouTube, Video Sharing, Social Networks, MySpace, Bebo; Blog posts 2007-08-02
Facebook's spam machine: I want to premise this post by saying that, of all the social networking sites, Facebook is probably my favorite. I like its clean and functional user interface, and in particular, the -- once controversial -- 'mini feed' which aggregates you and your friends' Facebook activity. The site's explosive growth...; Tags: Social Networks, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-07-30
MySpace, a place for finding talent?: NewTeeVee reports that MySpace, along with the FOX network and the Producers Guild of America, is launching a new video competition, which aims to seek out new television production talent via the social networking site. Dubbed the "Storyteller Challenge", starting September 4, MySpace will ask for 5-to 7-minute television "pilots"...; Tags: Social Networks, MySpace; Blog posts 2007-07-26
Spokeo now a place to track friends: Spokeo, which I profiled at the start of the year, has re-launched its social network aggregator -- taking the unusual but refreshing step of narrowing its focus and actually ditching most of its social features. The end result is a slick application that's much simpler to grasp, and does one...; Tags: Social Networks; Blog posts 2007-07-24

MySpace to launch Internet TV show?: It's being reported that News Corp-owned MySpace is about to get in on the Internet TV game, by commissioning its own online video show.Newsblaze reports:It has quietly without fanfare, media flair, or bidding warfare, struck a deal with some Hollywood talent, expecting this little group to start new broadcasts of...; Tags: Social Networks, MySpace; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Facebook's OS ambitions: In a very entertaining and pertinent post, Dave McClure says that Facebook isn't the new AOL as Jason Kottke has suggested but in fact can be compared to Microsoft's Visual Basic VB. McClure's point is that Facebook's Platform -- like VB did for the Windows platform -- has significantly lowered...; Tags: Social Networks, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-07-20
Boxedup, social bookmarking for "things you want": Launching today, Boxedup is a social bookmarking service for "things you want". Think of as a universal wishlist (similar to Amazon's wishlist but not confined to one company's store), with bolted on social networking to make it easier to keep track of what products your friends are interested in, and...; Tags: Social Networks, Social Bookmarking; Blog posts 2007-07-19
Poll: is Facebook Platform good for the web?: When Facebook first announced its new 'Platform' whereby third-party companies could built applications and set-up shop within the social networking site, many pronounced its 'openness' as a good thing, since it gives developers access to the site's millions of users. And whilst access to all of those users is something...; Tags: Social Networks, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-07-18
Should you trust Facebook with your users?: Inside Facebook has an interesting post detailing the affect a Facebook bug or partial outage can have on a Facebook application's user numbers. When there are kinks in the Facebook Platform, to users it can often look like a problem with the third-party app itself. That's because Facebook applications have...; Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-07-16
Marc Canter to Ning: help social networks open-up: TechCrunch reports that Ning, the web service that lets anybody start their own social network see my previous coverage, has a received a series C round of investment ($44 million) which values the company at $214 million. The additional funds will be used to build out Ning's infastructure, and help...; Tags: Social Networks; Blog posts 2007-07-10
Pownce launches in a post-email era: Kevin Rose (of Digg-fame) launched his new startup, Pownce, last month, which some have described as a potential Twitter-killer. And while the application can be used in a Twitter-like fashion, with its micro-blogging functionality, I think it's more an attempt to bridge the gap between asynchronous and Instant Messaging, in...; Tags: Twitter, Social Networks, Social Bookmarking, Instant Messenger, Adobe; Blog posts 2007-07-09
Facebook visitors up 89%: We probably didn't need comScore's latest findings to tell us that Facebook has seen massive growth since it first opened up the site beyond registered college students, but it does help to have the data to prove it. According to a comScore's data, recording activity on the social networking site...; Tags: Social Networks, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-07-06
The Facebook effect: MySpace to open up: The Financial Times is reporting that MySpace may soon open itself up to third-party developers -- in a similar strategy to Facebook -- which would see outside companies able to "plug" their web services into the number one social networking site. This is of course in direct response to the...; Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-06-29
Pageflakes adds social networking: Business2 is reporting on the latest upgrade to Pageflakes to go live later today, which will see the personalized start-page service take its first steps towards evolving into a social network based on shared interests.For the first time, members will be able to establish a public profile and there will...; Tags: Widgets, Social Networks; Blog posts 2007-06-28
Friendster page views up 40%: According to Comscore data, the social networking site, Friendster saw a 40% increase in page views for the month of May. As you may remember, Friendster was the leader over three years ago, before losing pace to MySpace in particular and then a host of others including the new darling,...; Tags: Social Networks, Friendster; Blog posts 2007-06-26
Research: Myspace and Facebook are different class: In my recent post 'Facebook and MySpace are like chalk â€˜n' cheese', I argued that the two sites have contrasting user-bases, and cater for different needs.... essentially I see the two giants generally catering for the needs of different demographics â€” hence their distinct differences in terms of layout and...; Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-06-25
Facebook and MySpace are like chalk 'n' cheese: With talk of Rupert Murdock attempting to 'offload' MySpace to Yahoo in return for a 25% stake in the company, there's inevitably been another round of discussion in the tech media comparing Facebook to MySpace.Â Not only is Facebook growing at a faster rate than MySpace -- though as TechCrunch...; Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-06-21
MySpace to befriend eBay?: MySpace has hinted at a potential partnership with eBay, in a bid to offer e-commerce services to its millions of users. In an article in the Telegraph newspaper, MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe is quoted as saying:"If you're on your site and you have a line of T-shirts you have designed...; Tags: Facebook, Google, MySpace, Social Networks; Blog posts 2007-06-18
iTunes sets up shop in Bebo; CNN/YouTube sponsor presidential debate; Google Video search; social network privacy tested: The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the weekâ€¦ iTunes sets up shop in Bebo. Apple has signed a deal with social network, Bebo, which sees the company selling digital music to the site's 8.8m users in the...; Tags: Apple, Bebo, Facebook, Google, MySpace, Search, Social Networks, The Social Web weekly; Blog posts 2007-06-15