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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Today, MySpace can be grouped under this category. Classmates.com and MySpace are two social networks in their decline stage. I think most of us agree that MySpace is dead. Launched in 2003, MySpace concentrated on the music niche. With hype and buzz, MySpace started to grow.

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15 Tips To Optimize Your LinkedIn Initiative

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

LinkedIn has enjoyed explosive growth since its debut in 2003. Remember, you’re not on Facebook, Google+, or MySpace here – this is a social network for business professionals. Also, the groups on Linkedin are not like your average Facebook group. Groups are great for networking and learning new things.

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Technology for Small Business

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Cameron Laker, chief executive and founder of Vancouver-based Mindfield RPO Group, says his 11-employee recruiting firm often searches LinkedIn for people with the professional and management qualifications its clients are looking for. They can also ask and answer questions and use groups to communicate with people with similar interests.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. Myspace: “A place for friends” (2003) Friendster rival Myspace (originally styled as MySpace) quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace.

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Diva Marketing Talks Online Publications With Deanna Sutton, Angela Benton & Heidi Richards Mooney

Diva Marketing Blog

Follow Dede on Twitter @clutchmagazine Facebook MySpace Angela Benton is the Founder and Publisher of BlackWeb 2.0. Heidi participates in more than a dozen social networking sites including MySpace, FaceBook, Linkedin, RYZE, eCademy, Xing, Yahoo Groups to name a few. Also another great group I stumbled upon was Magazine Launch.

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What really ended EMAP’s golden days?

The Way of the Web

I also took the chance to start playing with social media – we quickly had a Myspace page and Flickr group up and running, to be joined by Facebook and Twitter. Since then, we’ve had Myspace (2003), Facebook (2004), Youtube (2005), Twitter (2006), the iPhone (2007), the iPad (2010), and Blogger (1999) or WordPress (2003).

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

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Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. The idea behind Kluster is that a group of passionate people working together can come up with better solutions for any decision-making problem than a single person. © 2003-2008 ReadWriteWeb.