It’s 3.30AM in the morning, you’ve been awake now for a couple of hours after getting up for a drink of water.
Hearst Acquires Social Networking Site
Hoping to capitalize on the online teen market Hearst Magazine’s digital unit has acquired eCrush.com a conglomerate of entertainment and social networking sites for teens and young adults. The purchase price has not been disclosed.
Girls Dominate The Social Networking World
The growth in membership and usage of social networking sites has been driven by teens, and older teenage girls figure prominently in driving their rise.
Teens Savvy On Social Networking Sites
Social networking sites have generated controversy and concern for many parents and teachers. Just who is your teen chatting with on MySpace? Is it a friend from school or some dirty old man down the street pretending to be someone else?
Further Social Media Optimization Talk
Posted by Chris Richardson Even though the New Year is awfully young, apparently the popular topic for those who follow the Internet industry (especially search) is marketing via the social media outlets. While this subject has a few titles – linkbait, viral marketing, WOMM – the idea is the same: create compelling enough content to […]
Disney Goes Social
Disney will launch a new site next week focused on social networking for kids. The site will be similar to MySpace.com but will have parental controls and feature chat and video clips. Analysts are skeptical about the success of the site despite the strong brand behind it.
Toyota Introduces “Hybrid” Social Networking
Social networking is a bandwagon; the number of companies that haven’t taken a shot at it is decreasing on what seems like a daily basis. But in its newest incarnation, social networking may have become a reliable and fuel-saving bandwagon: Toyota has gotten on board with a redesigned site for the owners of hybrid vehicles.
Social Networking Meets Stock Investing
TheStreet.com, Inc. has announced an agreement with A.R. Media, a New York-based media holding company, in launching a new Web site entitled Stockpickr – “The Stock Idea Network.”
Gay Community More Active In Social Networks
Extrapolate all you want about why it is or whether it’s good, the gay, lesbian, and bisexual community has found a home online in social networks, taking to the new medium like rams to, well, other rams. According to a poll by Harris Interactive, the GLB community is much more active in Web 2.0 than their heterosexual counterparts.
Social Media’s Future
As the various predictions come out about people’s projections for 2007, I am beginning to see more and more impressive predictions about what will happen in the social media space.