Knowledge at Wharton published an interesting article about Facebook.
Particularly, it talks about Scrabulous, an application similar to the offline game Scrabble, and the problems faced by the online game in terms of copyright and branding, because of the existence of the offline game.
Entries from January 2008
Scrabulous and Scrabble
January 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Social Networks
Top Social Networking Sites: Traffic Comparison
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Here are the top social networking sites compared in Alexa. The big winner of the last year is Facebook, which is now head to head with MySpace. MySpace has grown too, but less than Facebook. In the third place is Hi5, which keeps growing and growing. Then we find Orkut, with slower growth. In the […]
Tags: Statistics · Social Networks
Top Professional Networking Sites: Traffic Comparison
January 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments
Here is a comparison of traffic, during the last year, of Linkedin, Xing, Plaxo, Neurona (in Spanish), and Ecademy, some of the most important business networking sites. Linkedin is the leader and Xing the second, but Plaxo has been growing a lot lately.
Tags: Professional networks
Never Eat Alone
January 20th, 2008 · No Comments
A book about networking, not only online but offline too.
Tags: Books About Networking · Professional networks
Lists of Social Networking Sites
January 16th, 2008 · No Comments
There are many lists of social networking sites on the Internet. Their length shows the strength of the networking trend. Here are links to two of them: One in Wikipedia (96 websites), and the other one in Answers.com (91 websites). They both include a description of each site and the number of registered users, but […]
Tags: Web 2.0 · Professional networks · Social Networks
Spymac: “Creating Stars”
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Spymac.com is a website to share and vote videos, audio and images. In their website, they say that they have millions of members from all around the world. They also state that they “make stars” through the voting.
The design of the website could be highly improved.
Their Pagerank now is 5.
Tags: Web 2.0 · Social Networks
