Tag Archives: social networking

Three Types of Video Networking Sites

ShareSharing information is at the heart of social media. Today’s social networking sites harness the power of word-of-mouth and digitize it online. News, music, photos, videos, and more disperse throughout today’s social sphere as people discover and share their Internet finds. Videos have risen as a focal point of shared content. In response, networking sites specializing [...]
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Facebook Set to Capture 500 Million Users’ Milestone

ShareFebruary 2004, six-and-a-half years ago: A small, unknown, self-startup website is born within the confines of Harvard. Today: That network’s presence seeps into almost every website, every search engine and every bookmark bar. Facebook’s initial presence at Harvard spread to nearby colleges, eventually growing to encompass all universities before consuming high school populations, as well. Launched from [...]
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Empire Avenue: How Much Are You Worth?

ShareEver wonder how much your social presence online is worth? Or how valuable you are in your peers’ estimations? Empire Avenue, a new online social game, is here with an answer. Fantasy Stock Market Game: Empire Avenue (currently invite-only beta) launched in February of 2010 under the leadership of Canadian Internet guru Duleepa Wijayawardhana – under the belief [...]
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20 Mommy Bloggers Making an Impact

ShareThey blog. They cook. They raise kids. They swap childbirth accounts and child-rearing anecdotes. These up and coming Internet individuals are the “mommy bloggers.” The Internet’s capacity for social networking has united a demographic that, throughout most of history, has been private in the home.  Today’s mommy bloggers are banding together, revealing and publicizing the homemaker [...]
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How to make FourSquare more social

ShareOver the past few months, I’ve been using FourSquare more regularly. FourSquare is a social networking service/game that you can use to track your whereabouts. It is typically accessed via an app on a mobile smartphone (Droid, BlackBerry or iPhone). The idea is that you earn points each time you arrive at a location and [...]
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