Social Networking

•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