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Social networks, such as MySpace and Facebook, have reinvented the way we communicate with each other, gather information and determine "friend" status. In the last three years, the major social networks have taken their place among the top Internet destinations, displacing traditional Web portals in the process...
...combine the market share of MySpace and Facebook among U.S. Internet users, their aggregate share only accounts for almost half of all visits to the Hitwise Social Network category. What about the other half? There are 4,713 other sites within that category, which account for the remaining market share. Diving into the rest of the social network pile reveals just how niche some of these hubs have become...
...MySpace and Facebook are like broadcast networks, narrow-focused online cliques such as fixya.com (devoted to tech support and fix-it-yourself junkies) and smokingpassions.com (a social network and dating site devoted to smokers) are like the arcane cable channels in the three digits that, late at night, I might find myself watching for no good reason. Is there a market for these niche sites, and if so, who will go to them...
...answer that question, I turned to the Hitwise database and searched through the 4,700-plus sites for those that had visitors that matched my demographics. Having just reached 42, I wasn't surprised that MySpace and Facebook weren?t on top of the list for my age group; after all, I still haven't figured out the purpose or proper response to a Super Poke. Top of the list for a 34-44 year-old living in the suburbs with similar interests to me is the grown-up social network called gather.com, which is sort of like a slow...
...spearhead efforts to aid Myanmar should be commended. Students are selling t-shirts whose profits will go to aiding Burmese people, organizing dinners at restaurants with members of Boston’s Burmese community, sending out countless e-mails over house lists encouraging people to donate money, starting a Facebook group that will donate money for every person who joins, and encouraging people to sign a petition to the U.N. Secretary General and China. All of these actions are indicative of a much larger global movement to help that the junta would do well to accept. It is high time...