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Facebook , MySpace , Twitter , LinkedIn and Ning are ranked 4th, 11th, 25th, 89th and 154th among all websites in the world, respectively. Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn , and the Ning family of social networking sites are the most popular social networks with wide business appeal. have taken the time to position my self on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Ning, with approximately The rapid growth of Facebook and Twitter has created lots of excitement. Alexa ranks the world’s most popular websites.

When you join, choose the option to link your Business Exchange and LinkedIn profiles. Your LinkedIn information will automatically be filled in on your Business Exchange profile page, and you will be able to easily send invitations to your LinkedIn connections. You can let Business Exchange automatically post your reactions to LinkedIn and Twitter. Looking over my traffic stats several weeks ago, I was very surprised to notice that a single visitor had been referred to my blog by Business Week . I

One of those dumbass things you notice - Blizzard, makers of World of Warcraft does not have RSS turned on their official press release/media site . I’m always coming across companies not having RSS turned on their press releases - gosh, most of them publish a PDF file, and expect you to open it. By the way, one of my RSS groups is “major social networks”. This means that instead of being able to subscribe to their news in say my.yahoo or igoogle, you have to go to the site and check for new news. None there?

Take for example the recent integration of LinkedIn with Twitter . You can now tweet your LinkedIn status to your Twitter followers and automatically post your tweets to your LinkedIn status. It is easy to see that this Twitter-LinkedIn partnership has many practical implications. We learn nearly every day of developments in the social media world which have the potential for far reaching impact. Based on my research, these are my top 10 takeaways from the new Twitter-LinkedIn hookup:

LinkedIn tells you how many ties you have at each degree of separation, but other than that you are not given much information about those ties. LinkedIn has another problem too: It makes it difficult for you to connect with your weak ties. No wonder LinkedIn is being eclipsed by other social network services! Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About February Issue, 2009

In this episode of Social Media Business podcast, the concept of freemium is introduced – what it is, how Flickr, LinkedIn, SecondLife are making millions of dollars from giving stuff away for free. or subscribe via RSS (video) or RSS (audio). LinkedIn, in October 2009 had over 50 million members (plus 385 staff)   $75-100m – 1/4 from advertising. We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it?

Distributed Social Networking" (DiSO) is what a growing number of people are calling the move to aggregate and integrate our activities, data and social connections built up on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter and our personal blogs. (See Your incoming subscriptions (RSS, friends' new media published, perhaps some email). Long time innovator Marc Canter has made a proposal for a system to let users integrate all their social networks from around the web into one central dashboard. He calls it the DiSO Dashboard .

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