From the category archives:

Social Networking

Facebook Dating Applications, Groups and Pages

by David Evans on January 18, 2009   in Social Networking

Poking around Facebook while watching football and waiting for roads to be plowed. Here are the Facebook dating Applications, Pages and Groups and I’ve come across. Many of the applications have absolutely nothing to do with dating.

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KillerStartups talks about Kontagent, a viral analytics platform.

Kontagent can be best described as a viral analytics platform that is geared towards social network application developers. The company itself is headquartered in San Francisco, and it has been founded by serial entrepreneurs Albert Lai and Jeffrey Tseng.
Currently, this platform works with the existing Facebook API, and [...]

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Unfriend Facebook Peeps, Win a Whopper

by David Evans on January 7, 2009   in Marketing, Social Networking

Burger King has launched a promotional Facebook widget. Un-friend 10 of your Facebook Friends via Whopper Sacrifice and BK will reward you with a Whopper. Careful though, unlike the usual Facebook unfriending process, the widget will notify your friends. I’m off to prune some people, sorry in advance, nothing personal, really, I’m starving.

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Online Dating Insider Links December 2, 2008

by David Evans on December 3, 2008   in Social Networking

Oodle aggregating personals
Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Nov 19, 2008
Social Networks Site Usage: Visitors, Members, Page Views, and Engagement by the Numbers in 2008
SNAP Exceeds 15 Million Users on Facebook(R) Platform
Match serves one billion winks. Winks are the most useless online dating tool for serious singles, why even offer them?
Plentyoffish says Listening to [...]

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Facebook Serves Billions of Images Daily

by David Evans on November 13, 2008   in Research, Social Networking

Researching the amount of images Facebook deals with every day, I found the following:

2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to Facebook every day
They have just over one petabyte of photo storage
They serve over 15 billion photo images per day
Photo traffic peaks at over 300,000 images served per second

Via Mashable.

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Tip of the hat to Jeremiah for continuing to produce the fantastic Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Nov 12, 2008.

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Engage Launches Facebook application

by David Evans on September 11, 2008   in Social Networking

Engage (blog) has launched a Facebook application and redesigned the site.

AwesomeIntros, is a fun game that relies on your intuition to introduce people to a person they’ve never met before. You just vote on the person you think Engage should introduce to the guy or girl in the poll and we do the rest… you [...]

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Jeremiah Owyang’s Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space for Sept 10, 2008 is up. Jeremy covers the social networking space an an analyst and if you read this blog you should at least sign up for his weekly digest.
I’m looking at a few white label social networks to use as dating site platforms for [...]

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Social Networking Digest: August 27, 2008

by David Evans on August 28, 2008   in Social Networking

Jeremiah Owyang has posted this week’s Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space. Jeremiah was in Cambridge last night at a tweetup which I missed because I took a friend to her chemo appointment. This weeks post of interest, Dontdatehimgirl was mentioned in Scientific America.

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Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan

by David Evans on August 3, 2008   in Social Networking

TechCrunch has a good post about why US-based social networks are failing in Japan. I find the implications of international expansion especially interesting given how Match and other major dating sites are looking to establish a presence in Asian markets.

Social networks have become integrative elements of modern American youth culture over the last years, shaping [...]

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