techweb.com— The top 10 sites collectively grew 47 percent in the United States from the same month a year ago to 68.8 million unique visitors, Nielsen/NetRatings said. The sites reached 45 percent of active Web users.
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"social networking is not a fad that will disappear"Yeah, I am still waiting for the day when some renegade hackers somehow overclock the myspace servers and maybe blow them up so that myspace will die.
DIGG, at its heart, is a social networking site.here there are user interaction, comments, replies, friends feature, diggs. the difference is topics here are linux and google, while on myspace it is about music, friends, videos, high school stuff. i am sure a lot of people would not understand why someone would spend a lot of time reading about ajax, bill gates, yahoo acquisitions, ipod rumours, browser wars, drm ...
"A market research firm says."I take that with a grain of salt.More like: half of all the web users whose visiting activity they were able to track -- to the sites theywere able to track.With such vast generalization, it's easy to make such a claim -- weblogs are popular.I presume anyone who's ever clicked on a weblog in a search result is considered to have beena user "attracted" to a social networking site --- so with a broad enough test, it was almost certainto have gotten inflated participation numbers.The problem is; a few hits to a social networking site doesn't really mean that user has become partof it -- it just means that some social network sites are so vast and cut such a wide berth through theinternet, that it's inevitable that most users eventually hit a page or two on one.Just hitting a page doesn't really mean you're part of the network, anymore than following a Wikipedia link in a search result automatically means the user's creating encyclopedia articles.I strongly doubt that a totality of half the internet's users have registered for accounts on socialnetworking sites -- most "attracted" probably just clicked a Google or Yahoo search result.
Everyone that I know that went to college(5-8 years ago) still have thier old edu account, most just forward it to thier accounts they use now. As far as i know the schools provide the address to alums forever.
i smell a lot of fear and denial in this room. LOL.WHAT'S THE MATTER? YOU OLD FARTS AFRAID YOU'RE NOT PART OF THE ZEITGEIST?those damn kids...what are they up to now. when i was a kid....
Yes social networks are the traffic powerhouses but they are the ones which make least money per user...If you want a website a social network which is the indian version of Facebook...and helps you learn something rather than spend most of your time wasting by sending useless application requests then head over to<a class="user" href="http://indianbee.com">http://indianbee.com</a> - an exclusively Indian social network for learningits my better social network which allows you to learn something
Closed AccountMay 13, 2006
"social networking is not a fad that will disappear"Yeah, I am still waiting for the day when some renegade hackers somehow overclock the myspace servers and maybe blow them up so that myspace will die.
Closed AccountMay 13, 2006
@swanny89: yeah, thats a bit difficult if you have no contact info, isnt it?
joewallMay 13, 2006
DIGG, at its heart, is a social networking site.here there are user interaction, comments, replies, friends feature, diggs. the difference is topics here are linux and google, while on myspace it is about music, friends, videos, high school stuff. i am sure a lot of people would not understand why someone would spend a lot of time reading about ajax, bill gates, yahoo acquisitions, ipod rumours, browser wars, drm ...
mysidiaMay 13, 2006
"A market research firm says."I take that with a grain of salt.More like: half of all the web users whose visiting activity they were able to track -- to the sites theywere able to track.With such vast generalization, it's easy to make such a claim -- weblogs are popular.I presume anyone who's ever clicked on a weblog in a search result is considered to have beena user "attracted" to a social networking site --- so with a broad enough test, it was almost certainto have gotten inflated participation numbers.The problem is; a few hits to a social networking site doesn't really mean that user has become partof it -- it just means that some social network sites are so vast and cut such a wide berth through theinternet, that it's inevitable that most users eventually hit a page or two on one.Just hitting a page doesn't really mean you're part of the network, anymore than following a Wikipedia link in a search result automatically means the user's creating encyclopedia articles.I strongly doubt that a totality of half the internet's users have registered for accounts on socialnetworking sites -- most "attracted" probably just clicked a Google or Yahoo search result.
mesachMay 14, 2006
Everyone that I know that went to college(5-8 years ago) still have thier old edu account, most just forward it to thier accounts they use now. As far as i know the schools provide the address to alums forever.
firemillen2May 14, 2006
i smell a lot of fear and denial in this room. LOL.WHAT'S THE MATTER? YOU OLD FARTS AFRAID YOU'RE NOT PART OF THE ZEITGEIST?those damn kids...what are they up to now. when i was a kid....
arulprakasharFeb 13, 2009
Yes social networks are the traffic powerhouses but they are the ones which make least money per user...If you want a website a social network which is the indian version of Facebook...and helps you learn something rather than spend most of your time wasting by sending useless application requests then head over to<a class="user" href="http://indianbee.com">http://indianbee.com</a> - an exclusively Indian social network for learningits my better social network which allows you to learn something