Diigo - Supercharged Social Networwking Tool

Well I've just got on to Diigo and I guess it will take a while to play with all the features and explore, but it looks really exciting.

Yes, Diigo is another one - a social networking tool/site. But this one is different. It is more of an Internet Research tool.

And for those like me who spend a lot of time picking up scraps of info here and there on the net - Diigo is going to be invaluable.

Emily Barney of Illinois is a member on the Facebook Diigo group and she says:

"I just did a profile/tutorial piece on Diigo for a class, you can view the video on youtube here:"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcecBgRd3ig

So check it out and sign up!

You can Digg pics on Photobuckcet

Did you know Photobucket now has a dedicated Digg channel?

Here you can fine the pics people have given the most Diggs, which invariable end up on your Facebook Superwall. I recognized quite a few from the first one or two pages.

Now Photobucket for me is a place where I upload images I need urls's for - you know those you' can't download directly to websites. I've never thought of using it for any other social networking.

As the blurb says: "See our new dedicated Photobucket Digg channel, with the most popular images on Photobucket, as voted by you! Let's see what you come up with when you "Digg" on Photobucket"

According to Mashable: "The new “Digg Images” feature will automatically crawl a submitted web URL and allow the user to select from thumbnail images to choose the one they would like to submit. Additionally, a mosaic view will allow users to browse submitted images. Digg has partnered with Idée for image recognition to prevent duplicates of the same photo from showing up on the site."

How Digg works on Photobucket

Next to all images on Photobucket, you'll see a Digg it button. Images with the most Diggs appear near the top of this page. If you see an image you like, click the Digg it button. You'll need to be a member of Digg to Digg an image. The registration to Digg is quick and easy. If you have questions about Digg, go to http://digg.com

With recently launched competitor Mixx offering an image section and gaining some fans since launching, Digg needed to make a big move, and with Photobucket on board this announcement certainly has some meat behind it.

Heard of Orkut, Google's Social Networking Arm?

Anyone ever heard of Orkut? It is Google's social networking arm. Yes, Google is into social networking as well, and believe it or not this very Orkut, beats the pants off Facebook.

According to a recent analysis by comScore Media Metrix, Google's Orkut social network, which many had written off as dead on arrival, now draws 38.2 billion pages views per month worldwide. Facebook totals about 7.8 billion worldwide page views.

In the last quarter, Google reported $1.24 billion in foreign ad revenue, nearly double the amount it reported for the same period in 2006.

According to a report in Forbes.com, Google is looking to better leverage Orkut in the U.S. by giving the site a redesign that ads flavor and sex appeal to an otherwise blank template.

"Until now, Orkut has been an also-ran in the U.S. because it's been neglected by Google," Greg Sterling, a consultant with Sterling Market Research told Forbes. "But with just a few tweaks and redesigns, and in combination with all of Google's services, it has the potential to really differentiate itself from MySpace and Facebook."

Social Networking for the Over 50 Set

Rofl! Ja, I'm sure that 99 percent of you have already fallen onto the floor and are not just laughing, but are gasping for air at the thought that anyone over 50 would even be interested in Web2.0.

Well I'm not quite there, but when you feel like you're the oldest person on Facebook, this article sounds quite interesting. Who knows, maybe that's where the cool old guys and chicks with megabucks hang out.

OK, so maybe they probably don't know much about turning your blog into a lean, mean PV attracting machine, but they'll have other good points, I'm sure. Read Social Networking for the Over 50 Set and find out for yourself.

Facebook does have a Ratecard

Facebook is just SO Social networking that is apparently doesn't have a ratecard. The company has been swearing to all who enquired that the ratecard doesn't exist, well to quote Facebook spokesperson Brandee Barker:"I just don't think it's a rate card in the traditional sense."

Well it is titled "Rate Card / Snapshot of Integrated Opportunities" and explains the workings from Facebook - from a financial angle.

Take a look for yourself.

Social Networking and Privacy

What is one's expectation of privacy on social network sites? Are Private settings really private? The two sites most talked about at the moment are of course Facebook and MySpace.

Social Networking - your words may haunt you

by Daniel Neville

Recently one of the topics that bloggers have been concentrating their efforts (and in some cases wasting their breath) on has been the issue of privacy and free speech on the Internet. These sometimes quite lively discussions have been centred around social media and networking sites like MySpace and Facebook.

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