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The Next Big Thing in Social Networks

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How much information are you willing to make public in order to improve your social networking experience? What capabilities might the next social networks have to “improve&# our intimacy with our online friends? Pollygraf, as its name implies, is the truthful social network.

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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

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Everyone’s talking about the launch of Togetherville , a social network designed to bring parents and their kids together with the goal of learning responsible social networking. Any serious adult user of Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace knows these sites are both social and anti-social.

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Forget the Social Network, It’s Just Etiquette

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A piece on Forbes.com titled Are You Practicing Proper Social Networking Etiquette? The article goes on to ask, “(is) it wise to accept a colleague or higher-up as a ‘friend’&# on a social network? This question in the previous paragraph involves both social networking issues and pre-Web 2.0

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks. Location-based applications like Foursquare and Brightkite will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

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You’re worth $130 to Facebook

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Warren Buffet thinks social networks in general are overvalued, and we might be headed for the Web 2.0 Facebook was recently valued at $85B on SecondMarket. With a current user base of 650 million*, each Facebook user would be worth $130 to the company. version of the dot-com bubble/bust, but in.

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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Changes announced today to Facebook’s privacy agreement suggest the company is about to flip the switch and add location-based capabilities to the social network. There comes a time in the life of every hot software product’s life (whether a Web 2.0 I don’t think so. I don’t think so.

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What Do They Mean by Social Any Way?

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Many of us take for granted the meaning of the word “social” when we think of social media and social networking. For the techie, social software is most likely built using Web 2.0’s Facebook arguably has more social features and more ease of use than any other site. I don’t think it is one.

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