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Hey! Nielsen is an interesting new website. Agree/disagree?

Hey! Nielsen is an interesting new idea from the people who bring us sophisticated web research and analysis along with lots of complex data and graphs. Except this time the site is aimed at users of social networks, not number-crunching analysts. You Read More...
Posted 31 January 2008 02:01 by Alex Horner | 1 Comments

Facebook rolls out its new ad system

Though we're not quite convinced “The next 100 years are going to be different for advertisers" because of it as founder Mark Zuckerberg would have us believe, Facebook's new ad system is very interesting indeed. First and foremost, brands are now able Read More...
Posted 07 November 2007 18:30 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments

Yahoo launches a social network for college grads

Yahoo has launched a new social network targeted at university grads trying to find their first jobs. Kickstart is similar to LinkedIn (albeit targeted more specifically), meaning it's more about employment history and qualifications than pokes and vampires/zombies/pirates. Read More...
Posted 07 November 2007 18:03 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments

Google's OpenSocial makes a lot of sense

Google's soon to launch OpenSocial is a set of APIs designed to let developers easily create applications that will work across any participating social networks. So instead of creating one for MySpace, one for Facebook and so on, a developer will create..well Read More...
Posted 01 November 2007 19:00 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments

O2 score big on Facebook

A Facebook group sponsored by O2 has attracted around 65,000 members in just 11 days. 'The Battle for the UK's Favourite University ' tasks students with representing for their unis by posting messages, discussion topics, videos or photos. For any of Read More...
Posted 16 October 2007 01:33 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments

eBay enters the world of social shopping

eBay's newly launched neighbourhoods are are a great new way to discover more about the products we love or hate. Essentially, each neighbourhood is a mini social network. You become a member of as many neighbourhoods as you wish and are able to browse Read More...
Posted 10 October 2007 21:56 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments

Have you been watching Kate Modern?

The creators of internet sensation, LonelyGirl15 are hoping to replicate their success with a new show airing on the UK's most popular social network, Bebo. Viewers follow Kate Modern , an art student, through her (fairly mundane it would seem) everyday Read More...
Posted 22 August 2007 19:59 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments

Facebook polls: tapping into the social network generation

At the beginning of the month Facebook added the ability to create polls. You ask a simple question, decide what kind of people you want to respond (based on demographic or psychographic data users put in profiles) and pay $0.25 to $1.00 depending on Read More...
Posted 21 June 2007 18:53 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments

Social network aggregators: the logical next step

With the recent and continued proliferation of social networks it's no real surprise that we're beginning to see sites emerge that help you keep track of all your profiles. Profile Linker promises to link together your profiles from all the social networks, Read More...
Posted 21 June 2007 00:20 by Alex Horner | 0 Comments