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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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FileRide: Social Networking or Invasive Indexing?

Microblogging is growing at an exceedingly rapid rate. As a result, more and more services pop-up regularly trying to corner the microblog front. The newest of these microblog innovators is Buzzable. Buzzable brings the idea of having your own social network and applies it to microblogging.

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Microblogging Communities, The Merging of Microblogs and Social Networks

Since we’re sure the added French and German language packs to Bitrix Site Manager earlier this month got you all ridiculously excited, you’d better brace yourselves because hot on the tails of that update is their new Social Network Module.

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Bitrix Goes Social in a Simple Way

It took way too long, but after Forrester Research conducted a 2008 poll, the group has come to the conclusion that social media activity is now mainstream. Okay, so this news is not as shocking as one would expect, but look at sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed for crying out loud. It is obvious that this stuff has gone mainstream. Regardless, the statistics are interesting to review, and that is exactly what we are going to do.

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Forrester Declares Social Media as Mainstream

There are myriad things you can do with social networks to promote your blog or your business. Creating a community on Twitter, Groups on Facebook, Linkedin Associations, FastPitchNetworks articles…
What have you found to work best for you?

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Social Media Marketing: Best Successes?