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Developer Analytics

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 by Kyle Welter

Launched only two months ago, Developer Analytics has found a simple, yet eloquent way of forming a community around social network application developers. Application development is a relatively new market that does not have much data substantiating the value that different applications hold. This database is a much needed source ...

Facebook finally releases message search tool

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 by Kyle Welter

5 days ago, on June 19th, Facebook began to release the heavily requested inbox search tool. This is one of the first steps that we see Facebook taking towards promoting private messaging to replace e-mails as younger generation begin to log onto Facebook. According to Facebook engineer Prashant Malik, Facebook delayed ...

Will Youtube finally generate a substantial cash flow?

Monday, June 16th, 2008 by Kyle Welter

With few exceptions, it is safe to say that the goal of creating a successful social network is to generate profit. While it is tricky to create a thriving social network, it seems to be even harder to make money off of it. This task has proven to be difficult ...

Pepsi Youniverse

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 by Kyle Welter

Pepsi has launched a social network around the Euro 2008 Soccer Tournament based around the innovative picture identification social network site youniverse.com . Youniverse's platform is based on the idea of creating a "visualDNA" for every user which is done at registration through a series of response questions. The users are ...

New Possibilities for Virtual Worlds

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 by Kyle Welter

Launched this past week through a promotion with Carl's Jr and Hardee's, the ExitReality platform has the capability of turning any website into a virtual avatar world. Through a plug-in, one is able to view their own facebook/myspace or anyone else's page in virtual form. ExitReality imports all images, videos ...

Flickr Tag Galaxy

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Kyle Welter

As with about half of the world, I'm kind of obsessed with nice pictures, so anybody that appreciates decent photography will love this site. I've been doing a lot of social networking research and came across Flickr's new Tag Galaxy. Its a German based application that has seriously won me ...