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The Social Media Minute

By John Conroy  |  Friday December 5, 2008   
 
Social Media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here's the week's social media news, in scan-friendly format.
 
This Week:
  • Facebook Connect General Launch
  • Digg 'Not for Sale'
  • FileRide: a Social Network for ... Files(?)
  • Six Apart Buys Pownce, Shuts it Down
  • Disastrous Timewaster of the Week: FireNES 

Facebook Connect General Launch

The long-touted Connect went live yesterday, offering Facebook users the opportunity to bring their Facebook identity with them to other websites for commenting avatar use, and various other interesting activities. The service was already in limited use on a small number of sites like CNN Forums, but now it’s available for implementation across the Web.
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FileRide: Social Networking or Invasive Indexing?

By Chelsi Nakano  |  Thursday December 4, 2008   

fileride_logo_08.png After MySpace came along and stole Friendster’s audience and spotlight, the next big shark to-be to join the pool was Facebook. Yes, the Social Media wars had officially begun. Naturally, after the birth of and bandwagon jumping between those three players, a social network platform boom happened, with products of all shapes and sizes. Today you can say: “I want a micro social network for my business” and we’d suggest Plum as the way to go.

You could even hint at how you’ve been itching for a network based on your creepy love for bellybutton lint and we’d tell you (gingerly) to go make one and bond with other lint lovers using Ning. And now, thanks to a Stockholm-based company called FileRide, you can even dream of social networks for inanimate things like the files on your computer, and we’d still be able to point you in the right direction.

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