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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Interestingly, I generated this list (which was a combination of manual labor plus FriendCSV ) and learned that the first adopters are all associated with me through college. The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks. I’ve never even tried friendster.

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R.I.P. Friendster

Ari Herzog

A vertical listing of my avatar, biographical data, friends’ comments, and links to their profiles encompassed Friendster’s simplicity. When the news feed arrived at Facebook , Friendster (and Myspace) began to die. Here’s a screenshot of the first half of my profile : I joined Friendster in July 2003.

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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

Socialized

Any serious adult user of Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace knows these sites are both social and anti-social. These are things that are not learned by showing children how to upload video or add strangers to their contact lists. Togetherville’s banner image. In other words, they are not using a social network.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Real World Events Music labels, film studios pay MySpace for record launches and Secret Shows. Sponsorship straight out sponsorship is a bit harder to do on Twitter -would a “your profile is brought to you by MacDonalds, your Twitter lists are sponsored by Nike&# work? (not Twitter helps to promote the “room&#.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. link] francine hardaway Great list, Jason. 2)Social media exposes your privacy 3)Social media resplaces advertising [link] francine hardaway Great list, Jason. For the reasons you’ve listed here. It’s about humanization.

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Tweet Spinner Review: A Powerful Application to Manage Your Tweets

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

With Tweet Spinner, you get a DM archive listed in an easy-to-read page that is searchable (via Ctrl+F on your keyboard; additional search facilities would be useful for accounts with thousands of DMs). Tweet Spinner also has a “nofollow&# user list that will algorithmically never follow users who meet certain criteria.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

That’s why I recommend the “Similar Posts&# plug-in below, and why I suggest you list recent posts and popular posts prominently on both the right side and bottom of every page. Even though we're all just the text of our name or a simple avatar/pic to each other, we're all real people inside.