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Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jeremiah Owyang highlights the most important stories.
Snap Summit 2.0 summary: It’s all about Facebook: Absolute must-read.

Dave Morin, the senior platform manager at Facebook, was the event’s main attraction. He opened his talk with a story about a woman he had met outside. She had created a Facebook application [...]

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Facebook dating applications (1,414 and counting) are starting to get some serious traction. Recently week I spoke with Alex Mehr, who, along with Shayan Ghazizadeh and two developers, launched Zoosk, a popular dating application on Facebook. Zoosk was funded by Amidzad, which also funds Plugplaycenter, a technology startup incubator for over 100 companies in [...]

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Look at my week’s worth of Myspace friend requests, every single one is a pr*stit*te. Calling Client-9. And let’s not get into the gaping security holes at Myspace. The company will push back against legal actions being taken against the site for as long as possible. There is simply too much money to be [...]

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Earlier today I spoke with Alex Mehr, who created Zoosk, a platform agnostic dating application that leverages the social graph.
I’ll post the interview later, need to go over my notes and make sure I don’t release any company secrets and clean up the drool from my jaw hitting the floor continuously throughout the conversation. Watch [...]

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I rejoined the Twitter crowd today after taking some time off from gorging on people’s lifestreams. One of the first tweets I received was from from marshalk at Read Write Web, who just posted OpenSocial Beta Apps Go Live on Myspace.
Marshall’s list of key differences between MySpace and other OpenSocial “containers” is worth noting if [...]

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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs has a great piece on Facebook hiring away Sheryl Sandberg from Google to run Facebook.
Fake Steve explains that Facebook is an investor shell game:

You have to remember what Facebook’s core business is about. It’s not about helping people stay in touch with friends or express themselves. It’s not about [...]

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Two important deals being announced in Massachusetts today.
Web analytics firm Compete was acquired, and Mzinga has acquired Prospero. Prospero’s community platform powers some of the largest social nets around. The combined company will become a market leader in the enterprise community space, with 1 billion pages served per month across 14,000 communities.
TechCrunch says via Jeremiah [...]

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Have you seen the new Facebook Cablight application?

Cablight is a way to play matchmaker for your friends. You don’t have to be single to join Cablight. You can set up your friends privately so they don’t have to “friend” each other. If you are single and you have seen a friend of a friend that [...]

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Boston is getting a lot of snow today, tonight the snow shoes come out!
I’m sorry to say that Consumating is joining the TechCrunch Deadpool on March 15. I talked with founder Ben Brown many times when they were starting up and during the transition after CNET bought them in 2006. I loved the concept, turns [...]

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