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The Rise of Social Networks
Dec 5th
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This infographic spans the timeline from 1995 up until today. The really large social networks exploded into existence during the 2003 – 2006 period:
What’s next? For one thing: Personal Branding. According to Chad Levitt, parts of the next wave of innovation will revolve around social networks, personal brands, massive amounts of data, collaboration and making senese of it all to create value. Also, expect more internal company social networking.
Infographic courtesy of Chad Levitt at his New Sales Economy Blog
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OPEN WEB AWARDS – 26 People’s Choice Winners
Dec 16th
The winners of Mashable’s 2nd annual Open Web Awards was announced Dec 16, 2008. The Open Web Awards are a multilingual, international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. By way of an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements of websites and services in 26 categories.
Twitter appeared to be the frontrunner for the “Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks” category, but the European social portal Netlog took that honor.
People’s Choice Winners Mainstream & Large Scale Social NetworksWinner: Netlog Runner-up: Platinum Lounge
Embeddable WidgetsWinner: Qoof Runner-up: Sprout
Blog PluginsWinner: ShareThis Runner-up: AddThis
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