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Beyond Facebook: The Rise Of Interest-Based Social Networks

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Interest-based social networks have a markedly different focus and approach than Facebook. The Pinterest, Thumb and Foodspottings of the world enable users to focus and organize around their interests first, whereas Facebook focuses on a user’s personal relationships. Facebook offers us a social utility to deepen social connectivity with our existing social graphs, while these new interest-based social networks enable users to express their interests in new, engaging ways and offer authentic, high value connectivity with new people we don’t already know. The different approaches of these interest-based services are distinct from Facebook, and they are powering the massive growth and engagement we are seeing in these new services.

via Beyond Facebook: The Rise Of Interest-Based Social Networks | TechCrunch.

LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q4 Revenue Up 105 Percent To $167.7M

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Revenue from Marketing Solutions products totaled $49.5 million, an increase of 77% compared to the fourth quarter of 2010 and represented 30% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 34% in the fourth quarter of 2010. Premium Subscriptions revenue totaled $33.3 million, an increase of 87% compared to the fourth quarter of 2010 and was 20% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 22% in the fourth quarter of 2010.

By geographic area, revenue from the U.S. totaled $112 million, and represented 67% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011. Revenue from international markets totaled $55.8 million, and represented 33% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011.

via LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q4 Revenue Up 105 Percent To $167.7M | TechCrunch.

Pinterest online bulletin board soars as social media darling

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Pinterest went unnoticed for almost a year. Then it caught fire.

By December 2011, the number of U.S. unique visitors to Pinterest soared to 7.5 million, up from 418,000 in May, according to comScore Inc., a Chicago-based Internet research firm. That is a steeper ascent in traffic than the early days of Facebook, Twitter or MySpace, said comScore analyst Andrew Lipsman.

via Pinterest online bulletin board soars as social media darling – chicagotribune.com.

vCita

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vCita is a new way to interact with website visitors, acquire clients and provide services online. vCita encourages your online audience to approach you, ask for advice and schedule time to talk over video or phone.

via vCita.

This site puts out a wordpress plugin (secure contact form) that uses the resources this outfit has to offer.   Interesting business model.

Facebook Leading, Microblogging Growing, World Connecting

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1 in every 5 minutes of time online is now being spent on social networking sites, up from a mere 6% in early 2007. The sites, led by Facebook, now reach 82% of the world’s internet-using population — about 1.2 billion people in total. This growth is happening across countries, with 41 of the 43 countries that the web measurement firm tracks showing penetration of 85% or more.

via ComScore’s 2011 Social Report: Facebook Leading, Microblogging Growing, World Connecting | TechCrunch.

BuddyPress.org

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Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress.

BuddyPress is completely free and open source. Unlike hosted services, BuddyPress allows you to stay in control of your site and create a totally customized, unique experience

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The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software

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Previously, Abhijeet has highlighted three awesome sites where you can create your own social network easily. However, if you are one of those who wants more control of the site, including the branding, the domain name, the features, the design, the community rule, or even the database, the best way is to install and run a social networking software on your server.

While there are plenty of scripts (both free and paid) that you can use to run your own social network, there are only a few that are stable, good and easy to use.

The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software.