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•New sites associated with social networking•Video/comedy/music social networking sites
•Blogging & Podcasting through social networking sites
Michael KeenBCIS 1405 MW
Sites created due to Social Networking
o 19.5 million hits for “MySpace themes"o “Xanga themes" receives 2.5 milliono Friendster returns 2.1 million pageso Hi5 had the fewest with 1.99M
popular sites: • freeweblayouts.com• bigoo.ws• mashable.com• hi5america.com
photo sharing sites like photobucket &
flickr
YouTube
Online community to share videos Google purchased for $1.67B Message other members & leave
feedback Over 100M videos viewed per day Post videos to other sites.
Comedy & Film
Showcased on Googlevideo, YouTube, and Veoh
YouTube comedy contests/short film contests
Talent agents scout video sharing websites
Webby awards; Oscars of the internet Over 10 thousand channels on YouTube
MUSIC
♪ Post music and videos for free♪ PureVolume features search by state♪ MySpace has over 13 million pages♪ Mindviz is popular with smaller artists♪ Ok Go received notoriety on YouTube
Groups and Communities
Narrow down from millions of users Like minded people can share ideas MySpace has over 3.8 million groups Friendster has over 1.1 million groups Common: business, religion, school &
hobbies
Podcasting
Multimedia files available to download/stream
Podcast.net has over 37k podcasts online
Topics include: politics, sports, business & entertainment
Gaining popularity: MSN, Yahoo, Google
Blogs
Web log or online diary Provides a place to share ideas Blog search engines grow in popularity Technorati.com tracks over
110 million blogs Becoming more specialized
Works Cited History of Blogs. Blog entry @ Wikipedia.com. October 2007.
Wikipedia.com 17 October 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs
About Technorati. About us page @ Technorati.com October 2007. Technorati.com 17 October 2007 http://www.technorati.com/about/
Podcast.net Hopepage. Podcast listings @ Podcast.net October 2007. Podcast.net 17 october 2007 http://www.podcast.net/
Mergers and acquisitions: Google pays $1.67 billion for YouTube. Facts on file world news digest 12 oct 2006. facts on file world news digest @ facts.com. facts on file news services. 17 oct 2007 http://www.2facts.com
Youtube snags 100 million views per day. Reuters reporting @ usatoday.com 16 July 2006 usatoday.com 17 october 2007 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-07-16-youtube-views_x.htm?
Number of hits for myspace themes. MySpace themes search @ google.com October 2007. Google.com 17 october 2007 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=myspace+themes
Number of hits for xanga themes. Xanga themes search @ google.com October 2007. Google.com 17 october 2007 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=xanga+themes
Works Cited cont. Number of hits for Friendster themes. Friendster themes search @
google.com October 2007. Google.com 17 october 2007 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=friendster+themes
Number of hits for Hi5 themes. Hi5 themes search @ google.com October
2007. Google.com 17 october 2007 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hi5+themes
Groups on Myspace. MySpace groups homepage @ myspace.com October 2007. Myspace.com 17 October 2007 http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.categories
Groups on Friendster. Friendster groups homepage @ friendster.com October 2007. Friendster.com 17 october 2007 http://www.friendster.com/group/mygroup.php?statpos=regconfirm
Web video sites mined by talent scouts. AP reporting @ techworldnow.com 20 July 2007. Techworldnow.com 17 October 2007 http://techworldnow.com/?p=100
YouTube tops 10,000 channels. Reuters reporting @ boston.com 02 June 2006. boston.com 17 october 2007 http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/06/02/youtube_upgrade_turns_one_hit_wonders_into_stars/
Webby awards expand scope in 2007. The world almanac encyclopedia @ facts.com. may 2007. facts on file news services. 17 oct 2007 http://2facts.com
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