2008 September | Tips, resources, and strategies for starting and marketing your own social networking site.

29Sep08

Social networking isn’t just for the college-aged kids. 41% of Baby Boomer internet users in the US have visited online social networks, according to a report from The NPD Group. Although young web users (age 13-34) are significantly more likely to visit social-networking sites – and to visit them more often – more than half [...]

7Sep08

Elgg and SocialEngine Updates

With their recent version upgrades, both Elgg and SocialEngine are getting plugin upgrades. Elgg, which has the best support for open standards (OpenID and OpenSocial, and their own OpenDD initiative) and is arguably the most flexible, has posted several plugins on their site. More are being posted in the Elgg Google Group. A key plugin [...]

5Sep08

Movable Type Pro and 4.2: Blogging Gets Social

I noted WordPress’s move into the social network platform arena earlier. Movable Type Pro and 4.2 is headed in the same direction with the addition of social networking features like profiles, ratings, user registration, forums, following, and more. Plugins are following, including a News Feed clone. As ReadWriteWeb correctly notes, these additions make the need [...]

4Sep08

Facebook earning $35 million in gifts?

Lightspeed Venture Partners have been estimating the revenue for Facebook from those virtual “gifts” members can send back and forth. Their most current estimated run rate is $35 million, more than double their January estimate. It’s a beautiful little revenue model, with almost zero cost to Facebook. They do a great job of driving urgency [...]

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