social networking

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After several months of testing, Google has finally launched its knowledge-sharing portal called Knol where people can share their opinions and views about a specific topic.

Now orkut is under pressure, its alexa rank is decreasing. Competitor social networking sites are taking lead from orkut. Orkut has lost its position in alexa ranking. It is now behind other giants like myspace, facebook, hi5. Above all, the possible Microsoft-Yahoo Combo will create havoc inside orkut. Why this is happening? Will orkut die? Let’s discuss this.

Hello All Mumbaikars,
Be a part of this mission to make Mumbai United. Here is a platform for all Mumbaikars (strictly for mumbai) to know each other, share views, make friends, do business, write blogs, chat etc. Its Mumbai's own Social & Professional Network with a mission to Unite all Mumbaikars, so come and be a part of it.

Visit: www.Cona.in

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Web Innovation 2007 will be the forum for Designers, Developers, Product Managers, Entrepreneurs, Enterprise, VCs, Marketing Specialists, Strategists, Consultants and others to understand the WEB 2.0 tools, trends and technologies better in order to harness endless business opportunities.

This edition of WEB INNOVATION 2007 will focus on the following:

What does one get when one mingles fun, Senior Executives of BPO industry, Bureaucrats, Industrialists in a coffee shop? A new format of social networking called “BPONews Coffee Un-Conference”…

In a first of its kind initiative, BPONews Coffee Un’Conference unraveled a forum to answer the undercurrent brewing in the BPO

industry for long. The participation list read like a virtual who’s who of the BPO industry like … List of Invitees (below).

Now the search giant's move into health information could be a winner. Google's plans for a service that puts you in control of your health information start to take shape. This service could help you make more informed decisions about your health, get personalized recommendations from specialists and share this information with other people.

Google Health, that will help you find treatments, symptoms or alternative medicine treatments.

About radiusIM
What is radiusIM?
radiusIM is Social IM. It’s the only website that shows you where your friends are hanging out and lets you surf for other people based on location. It supports all the major networks: MSN, AIM/ICQ, Yahoo, and GTalk/Jabber. And you can use radiusIM from anywhere because there are no downloads.

The story
We first became addicted to IM in school and have been online pretty much non stop since. We always thought IM could be more fun and more social — especially if we could see where people were hanging out. So, last year we started kicking around ideas for how we could add location and social features to IM and radius was born.

Yahoo Inc is testing an experimental social network service called Mash that makes it easy for Yahoo users to share tidbits of their lives with friends and family online, the company said on Sunday.

Mash, to which a limited number of public users began being invited as testers on Friday, was described by a spokeswoman as a new, next-generation service that is independent from the company's 2-½ year-old Yahoo 360 degree profile service.

The past couple of years have seen an explosion of sites that are known as Community or Social Networking websites. These sites are intrinsically involved in the rapid development of the Web 2.0 phenomena, hence our interest in them.

No doubt, if you are familiar with Social Networking sites, and have perhaps used them before, you will already be fully aware of their levels of popularity and the reason for such popularity.

If it is Social Networking with a meaning you are looking out for then wait for the soon to be released Bechums.com
Yes,it is planning to redefine Social Networking to Social Cause Networking.Here the concept of Social Networking will be used to carry on charity deeds.So next time your single scrap could mean education to underpriveleged anywhere in the world.And yes surprise! surprise! This webs

One of the first successful Social Networking sites was Friendster, which unfortunately could not scale up due to infrastrucutre problems. FaceBook and Myspace became the new succe ss stories, but Jonathan Abrams' was the first poster boy to have brought in millions of users together to socialize on Friendster.

Wired recently introduced Jonathan to know more about his new venture and the lessons learnt from Friendster, Click here to read the interview.

It was a mixed experience at the Unconference made possible by Entrepreneur 27 , a group started by university students in Singapore after borrowing the concept which they experienced during their year long stint at Silicon Valley.

I am still recovering from the hangover of the event which actually did not serve alcohol! But the experience of the unconference itself was so alcoholic especially for me when I was amongst those energetic youngsters!!

snehaH.com - Where friends meet - Social Community Network from INDIA, a social networking utility portal was launched recently. The portal, a stand out from others in its category, harps on the idea of knowledge sharing between people from creative and professional spheres apart from social networking.

snehaH.com has been launched by Sravan, an software engineer cum web entrepreneur from Hyderabad who has to his credit a list of successful ventures such as www.mavenarts.com - India’s first digital online community and www.Indiagram.com – A Social Bookmarking system, a utility portal. Managed efficiently by a talented team comprising Ram, a graphic visualizer, Xasu23 (Admin) and Kartik to customize the content of the portal. With an ever-growing team of contributors, the team seeks to improve and update the content of snehaH.com in every possible manner. Sravan’s dream is to make snehaH.com a platform for resource and knowledge sharing for people from different parts of the world.

www.yaari.com is desi take on Orkut another successful venture. Its a social networking and friendship site for Indians by Indians.

Membership is by invitation only.

Its interesting to see so many online ventures again coming up from India. Once there was boom of such ventures but most of them simply vanished after the dot com burst.

This time it seems like a more carefully planned and controlled approach which have a revenue model already chalked out. Earlier everybody was simply rushing into the things without giving enough thought to business aspects and was going to market with a half made product.