Tag archives for social networks

hi5 Sucks

By | Published April 14, 2008

Anti Hi5 I just canceled my account with hi5 for 2 simple reasons:

  1. I don’t use hi5 services, probably I am not in the target group but I created my account initially just to see what’s it about
  2. I received complaints from my contacts and friends that claimimg I posted a porn image, linking to a porn site, as a profile comment. I did not do that and as long as Hi5 back-end allows these kind of things to happen, I opt-out.

I am amazed to see that Hi5 is one of the most accessed social network from Romania and this considering that it’s full of spam, malicious code and fake accounts. We have a long way to go. :(

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OpenSocial Foundation – everybody is in!

By | Published March 25, 2008

opensocialYahoo announced today that they will join OpenSocial and that’s not all, they are forming, together with Google and MySpace a new non-profit foundation – the OpenSocial Foundation, following the model of OpenID Foundation. The reason behind this is of course to be fully neutral but still get everybody involved in this project, at full throttle.

The funny part is that opensocial.org gets redirected to a page made with Google Sites, a product of Google Aps :)

A big surprise comes from Apache – they released an "incubator project for OpenSocial and gadgets" called Shindig.

I find all this fuss extremely interesting for the web industry – including advertisers, strategists, developers and designers. Stay tuned for more "global" surprises.

via TechCrunch

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Most used social networks world wide

By | Published March 13, 2008

Social Networks world wideThe image on the right is quite interesting and self explanatory.

I wonder if there is any other audit, more up to date, as this is the result of a research conducted in August 2007.

Please comment bellow if you have more updated data or know some good social networks audit resources.

 

IMAGE SOURCE. Via Andreea.

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Tired of socializing?

By | Published March 6, 2008

Do you have more friends on Facebook than in real life? Do you personally know all your Facebook contacts? Are you tired of getting 24332 invites to install some stupid applications nobody is using anyway and 2894503 notifications of what quizzes your friends took and what movies do they like?
Here’s a funny clip – Facebook Anthem …soooo fucking true!

via Zoso

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