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TechCrunch: Google OpenSocial to be common APIs for building social apps. Instead of building yet-another social network, Google is releasing something this week that provides a platform to link all the partnered social networks out there — Orkut, Xing, Friendster, Hi5, LinkedIn, etc. It allows developers to write applications for all these social networks using [...]

As Facebook has just been predicted as the largest social network on Internet, I think it would be a good time dusting off my Facebook account and check out what the hype is all about. Looks like it is still appealing to those who are in their 20′s, just like MySpace is appealing to the [...]

MyBlogLog, the site that binds bloggers and their readers together. It’s basically a social networking site where you can create profiles, edit contacts, etc. What’s unique is its integration with Javascript based traffic logger, which enables bloggers or webmasters to see which MyBlogLog member is visiting his/her site. These statistics then enables forming of communities, [...]

Steve Rubel wrote: Yahoo 360: The Blog Ghost Town “Yahoo 360 is largely a forgotten product … is largely Geo Cities 2.0″. It was hip only 13 months ago, and was impressed with their access control. But, I still see lots of people hosting their blogs on Blogger.com for its simplicity, and on MSN Space [...]

The word Folksonomy (or commonly known as “tagging”) has to be one of biggest buzzwords on Internet today, as it has been popularised by del.icio.us, Flickr and the like. What is folksonomy anyway? Here is the definition from WikiPedia (as of 4 July 2005): Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using [...]

Burnham reckons that Friendster is in trouble as its model of social network application is not innovative. It still uses the possibility of “dating” as its main attraction, which in reality has very limited audiences and short participation life time. There are many others that are more innovative, and some has just got too much [...]

One thing I really liked about Yahoo! 360 (ask me for an invite if you have not got one) is its implementation of access control. You can choose from multiple level of privacy for different sections of your Yahoo! 360. For example, you might want everyone on 360 to see your real name, restrict your [...]

Sixfoot! 660 is the social network of all social networks. Very funny playing a satire of Yahoo! 360.

Thanks to Oliver T for inviting me into testing out the Yahoo! 360 beta. I haven’t had a chance to dip into it yet, but after a brief looking around, Y! 360 certainly looks very polished. While blog integrated social networking sites have been done to death over the last couple of years (I am [...]

Having used Del.icio.us for the last 5 months as my live bookmark manager, I have found a fancier implementation of the same social bookmarking concept today – BlogMarks. Having spent the last 10 minutes playing with it, I have quickly imported all my Del.icio.us bookmarks (thanks to the built-in Del.icio.us importer), added a few new [...]

It has been a month and half since the beginning of this new year, but just in case you have not had your new year resolution planned, this social networking site allows you to put in up to 43 things that you want to do, blog about them, keep track of your progress, and share [...]

Yes, I am on another stupid social network, and this time it is called “Multiply“. However, it gives you more room to sell yourself, by integrating blogs, personal calendar, etc into social network, so that your friends (and friends of friends) can easily find out what you are up to. Doesn’t a decentralised web of [...]

Quite a few strangers have either emailed me, or left comments on my blog to try to get Orkut invites. For those who I do not personally know, sorry mate, you won’t get a chance. Orkut is Google’s social network where friends’ friends can get connected, but I don’t social well with complete strangers. However, [...]

I was planned to prepare the seminar that I am supposed to lead next Friday with MBF, but not surprisingly I got slack, procrastinated and played around with Orkut for the last hour or two, while trying to listening to PDJ’s talks on CD. I wrote about Orkut a few months ago, but just decided [...]

First of all, thanks to JZ for inviting to the network, so this morning I have a brief chance to register an account and play around the system a bit. Here’s a list of initial impressions. Apparently it is written in C# and ASP.NET. What?! I thought it is done in the spare time from [...]