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Oh those young persons! How they love their social networks.

New research results indicate that millenials (those born between 1981 and 2000) are also eager to embrace mobile Web 2.0 technologies, which include cell phone-based blogging, multimedia sharing, location-based socialization services, gaming and chat.

Seems like we can't get enough of that Facebook social network these days. Not only do we constantly hear about all the consumer-based solutions that want to emulate and even overrun it, we now have to contend with vendor after vendor offering their enterprise 2.0 version of the popular social networking platform.

Trampoline Technologies SONAR Dashboard is the latest in a string of solutions for an "enterprise Facebook". While we don't discount the need for social networking inside the enterprise, we just really wish someone would think of a better marketing pitch.

Social network sites like MySpace and Facebook started an infectious desire from the public for more social-ness on the internet. The people were tired of chat rooms and IM just wasn’t cutting it. So the social network crazy started.

But MySpace and Facebook aren't the only social networks out there...

Okay, so you've heard the news right? A-List blogger Robert Scoble gets kicked out of Facebook for running a new Plaxo beta script that scrapes his “Friends” (name and email address) from Facebook and inserts them into Plaxo, only to later be let back in.

Should Scoble be allowed to get his data out of Facebook in the format he chooses? Is it even his data to begin with? Does the data belong to Facebook’s? Is it yours? Who owns your data anyway?

There’s an interesting confluence that’s just starting to gain traction in the enterprise. This is the intersection of rich media, social networking, dynamic content management and the on-demand business model.

A recent article in the New York Times discussed the growing popularity of new social networking sites that cater to specific religious and ethnic populations. Sites like Xianz.com and Naseeb.com have become safe havens for users who are frustrated, tired and uncomfortable with the profane and sexually explicit comments generated by users on MySpace and Facebook.

In response to such frustrations, discouraged users sometimes make the jump to cultural safe havens -- some with barriers to entry. Most such social networking sites heavily monitor users' content, often limiting the language members may use. Can such closed spaces thrive in an era of MySpace?

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