Posts Tagged with ‘social-networks’

Today the multilingual social network XIHA Life (”xiha” means “fun” and “happy” in Mandarin and also “Hip-Hop” in Cantonese so it should be pronounced “ziha” following the rules of Chinese language) officially debuts in the US and offers a global music distribution channel to musicians worldwide. The social network positions itself as a truly multilingual community as it supports 34 languages (with more promised to come soon) and allows users to communicate using as many languages as they actually understand.
The [...]

Today Caroline McCarthy reports that the rumors about AOL buying SocialThing have been confirmed. Frank Gruber has provided some of the background details about how the startup made its first steps and finally reached this acquisition.
SocialThing is a startup that serves as an aggregator for various online services (not many of them for now with a strange omission of regular RSS feeds). SocialThing is obviously one of the competitors to Friendfeed but even after some grudge on the launch date [...]

Big news today is that Friendster got a new CEO and a substantial investment. You thought Friendster was dead already? Think again, it actually seems to have big plans for the future. I thought Friendster was long forgotten myself and after a quick search today I found that we only had one (!) post in the 2 years of Profy existence dedicated to Friendster only. But no matter how long ago we forgot Friendster, today the pioneer in social networking [...]

Eric Eldon over at VentureBeat has two interesting posts today about both Facebook and LinkedIn allowing their employees to sell up to 20% of their stock options in each of the respective company. Eric has a great and insightful analysis of both companies and how these decisions could work out but to me the most interesting part in both stories is that if Eric's sources are correct, Facebook's internal valuation is now at $4 billion while that [...]

Since I am not in the US, it is always fascinating to see some international news going big among US journalists and readers - so today's article in the New Your Times titled "An Innocent Abroad" was a great refreshment to me. The article has a lot of valid points about how the internet Anglosphere views the rest of the internet - I mean those of us that are wired but don't have English as their native [...]

It is definitely great new that today Facebook is rolling out the filters for the News Feed to improve our experience with the feature of the social network. True, I actually expected more improvements right when the redesigned profiles were launched and I still think one huge thing is missing but the filters already make it better.
Logically, the new functionality launched today on Facebook allows for some additional filtering within the news feed where we see the [...]

What a surprise, really! A study released by reputation management service RapLeaf (our previous coverage) reveals that there are more women than men on all the major social networks the exception of LinkedIn and Perfspot.
RapLeaf studied over 49 million people based on the publicly available data to understand social networking trends and their relation to gender and age of internet users. The social networks studied included Bebo, Blackplanet, Classmates, Facebook, Flickr, Flixter, Friendster, Hi5, LinkedIn, Multiply, MySpace, [...]

So now that LinkedIn has allowed search for groups, group functionality has finally become useful, I think. While before today you had to browse profiles of other users to discover some groups you might be interested in joining, now you can actually perform a search to find the interesting groups.
Availability of search within groups was announced 3 days ago and the feature went live today. In fact, it is an interesting approach since I've never seen a [...]

In the time since Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine popularized the term crowdsourcing, the 'wisdom of crowds' has been implemented in several varying ways across the web resulting in virtually eliminated “cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals.”
Digg and StumbleUpon are two examples of crowd wisdom where most of the labor is provided by the user community completely free of charge for each of the companies, though others such as CambrianHouse, iStockPhoto and Threadless compensate users/sellers through royalties and [...]