This post was written by Jody Jonnson
Facebook is not completely immune to fraud but there is room for fraudsters to violate the rules and gain info to user account details. The platform should stay the same; meaning it is up to us, the user to stay vigilant when using Facebook at all times. Overall, it is good at breaking the ice with companionships whether it’s work or play. Long gone are the days that Facebook was predominantly for students; though the student population on Facebook is massive. It certainly looks that Facebook will continue to be versatile in concept building.
The Social Networking Website Orkut lets you reunite with you school buddies. Interestingly, a lot of users have even found their virtual or real love or life partners through Orkut. In This Social Networking Website people are ultimate love going on with Graphics and comments. There is an ultimate Collection of Graphics which u can send to your friends. There have been a lot of controversies for orkut on newspapers. But, it depends on people how they treat and utilize it.
LinkedIn’s current incarnation of InApps does not seem to help it truly compete with Facebook user engagement and third party developer participation. OpenSocial developers who created applications for InApps did not innovate based on LinkedIn’s core strengths relative to Facebook, and LinkedIn itself seems hesitant to truly follow Facebook’s lead based on potential conflicts between InApps and its established business model. Current applications don’t leverage LinkedIn members’ ability to discover people based on three degrees of separation and to forge relationships via LinkedIn’s industry leading tools.
America Online has rolled out a new version of its social-networking website Bebo in a bid to make it a central gathering point for people’s online lives. Bebo used technology from freshly-acquired Socialthing to give users easy access to pictures, status changes and other data routinely shared at communally-oriented websites. Bebo provides continuously updated local news feeds and lets users check Gmail, Yahoo mail or AOL mail without leaving the social networking website. A “recommendation engine” delivers video, music, and games tailored to Bebo users’ tastes.
Property Network, a new dedicated social network for property investors worldwide has been launched this month. The website provides a central online community for investors, agents, landlords and the like to meet, discuss ideas and develop their contacts and business potential. The Property Network ( http://www.property-networks.net) provides members with a space to communicate with people from the industry, upload images and videos, post blogs, and discuss all areas of property investment in the forums.
Relatip.com is the first online community for Intellectual Property attorneys and other practitioners that has been officially launched at the International Trademark Association annual meeting. After the launch, Relatip.com CEO said “Intellectual Property networking goes online.” Relatip.com is a joint venture of a patent and trademark attorneys’ law firm and a software company. It is a social network that allows each IP professional to register, write a blog, upload video content, ask and answer questions at the professional forums, and be updated with the recent news and events in the field.
IBM’s new hub for collaborative development, Rational Team Concert, is due by the end of this month. Rational Team Concert would give the company’s Rational software development platform a social networking injection. Rational Team Concert attempts to let all participants in the development process, apart from developers, collaborate. When a developer sits down to work, for example, he can see all other project members that are logged in at the moment, regardless of their location. Developers, project managers, testers, compliance managers, and other team members can use instant messaging to communicate in real time.
The first faith-based multilingual online community has launched in time for Christmas. Providing an online community for people who want to impact their world, the new www.cross.tv combines the best of social networking with high quality HD streaming and a multilingual communications platform. Not only can users upload videos, pictures, publish blogs, add friends and even develop their own sub-networks for their families, churches, ministries or projects. They can also communicate with others and raise awareness of different causes using cross.tv’s unique “cross pollination” functionalities which allows them to publish content in multiple languages.
Blogtronix has released BTX Enterprise, a next-generation secure and robust high performance Social Media platform that integrates collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation between business users, customers and partners. BTX Enterprise was built from the ground up and customized with specific components for three key markets - Financial, Enterprise, and Publishing. Unlike first generation networking solutions, BTX Enterprise is easy to use, scalable and can be delivered either on-demand or as software and includes rich features such as video blogging, podcasting, flash as well as a fully customizable interface. These applications range from corporate in-house collaboration to global user-created networks.