Cloudmark, Inc., supplier of carrier-grade messaging security, announced Cloudmark Authority for Social Networking Providers, the only commercially deployed solution to effectively combat all categories of social networking abuse. Cloudmark Authority––already in use at more than 100 of the world’s largest service providers and mobile operator networks, including 11 of the top 12 in North America––is uniquely architected to block spam, phishing and virus threats on virtually any communications platform. With Authority for Social Networking Providers, Cloudmark extends its industry-leading, carrier-grade technology to protect against abuse targeted at social networks. source: Cloudmark
I do not think everybody knows it. But at Fusionsearchers I have 4 colleagues. Starting from next week you can find their profiles under the people tab of our website. In the mean time I can share some great news. Yesterday all our potential Advisory Board Members said yes to assist us building the Fusionsearchers Network for Human Capital Solutions.
The Fusionsearchers Advisory board is set up Wikipedia style. According to wikipedia: The Advisory Board is an international network of experts who have agreed to give the Foundation meaningful help on a regular basis in many different areas, including law, organizational development, technology, policy, and outreach. Their abilities, experience, and knowledge were selected for how they complement a particular Foundation project, or the organization as a whole.
I am confident we can build a great company with the assistance of Peter, Katja and Bob. You can find their profiles on our Network page
BlackBerry users have racked up more than one million downloads of a Facebook app in the five months since it launched.
Facebook for BlackBerry, allows users to perform a variety of tasks including sending and viewing messages, making Wall posts and ‘poking’ other Facebook users. A user’s status message can also be updated on the go, and friend requests can be made and responded to. In addition, users can take photos on their phones and upload them directly to Facebook.
An interesting project for identity in social networks from an open source point of view is the Higgens project. At mediaslate you can download the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast with Paul Trevithick, CEO of Parity and the Founder of the Higgins Project. According to the guys at mediaslate is Higgins an incredibly well thought-out open identity framework that’s designed to integrate identity, profile and social relationship information across multiple sites, applications and devices.
According to a survey of Rapleaf: Men tend to be more transactional and less relationship building when it comes to their friends on social networks. Women tend to have slightly more friends on average.
In the largest social networking study ever done, Rapleaf sampled over 30 million people looking at social graph information across various social networks including Bebo, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, LiveJournal, Myspace, Flickr, and others. They looked at the number of friends that women have vs. men across these social networks.
I am considering to set up my own social network in http://www.ning.com. But before I start up I want to check out http://www.Insoshi.com. According to their website: Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product! Since Insoshi is open source, you can download the code from our GitHub repository and make your own social network. Then stay in touch by joining theInsoshi developer site—which is powered by Insoshi!
I am definitely NOT a developer but let’s see if I can set up Insoshi.
It looks like a lot is happening recently in the Internet industry. And according to Morgan Stanley there is more to come. Check their latest presentation about internet trends at slide share.
For a number of months I see articles by IBM popping up covering social networking. Unfortunatly they are all about Lotus and social networking. In 1999 I used Lotus (and I disliked it). Anyway here is a presentation from the IBM social evangelist
Wetpaint the social publishing platform with a network of over 750,000 social sites, today unveiled a complete set of social networking features to supercharge creation of content on its award-winning wiki service that now unifies the two things people love to do online – socialize and share content with others.With the addition of such new features as a Friends Network, Custom Member Profiles, a What’s New site activity dashboard and Friends Feeds,Wetpaint has created the first truly integrated social publishing platform, empowering anyone to easily create a completely social and collaborative website.“At its essence, online collaboration is a social experience, but on most wikis that aspect has been limited to hidden discussion pages – it’s the equivalent of a cocktail party where no one talks to each other,” said Ben Elowitz, CEO of Wetpaint. “By adding a social dimension to Wetpaint, users are more likely to interact and engage with each other – interaction being the key driver to generating content that has lasting value to not only themselves but a wider reading audience.
GyPSii, a geo-location and mobile social networking provider, has partnered with Shanghai Rannuo and China Unicom to launch
its GyPSii service during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The GyPSii service combines social networking, mobile, location and web 2.0 technologies to offer China Unicom users a seamless mobile lifestyle experience. It will allow users to create pictures, video and blogs centered on all things Olympic while using their existing camera phone. GyPSii users can capture their special moments during the Olympic games, upload the content to their personal space on www.gypsii.com.cn and share it with friends, family and communities
Cloudmark, Inc., supplier of carrier-grade messaging security, announced Cloudmark Authority for Social Networking Providers, the only commercially deployed solution to effectively combat all categories of social networking abuse. Cloudmark Authority––already in use at more than 100 of the world’s largest service providers and mobile operator networks, including 11 of the top 12 in North America––is uniquely architected to block spam, phishing and virus threats on virtually any communications platform. With Authority for Social Networking Providers, Cloudmark extends its industry-leading, carrier-grade technology to protect against abuse targeted at social networks. source: Cloudmark
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BlackBerry users have racked up more than one million downloads of a Facebook app in the five months since it launched.
An interesting project for identity in social networks from an open source point of view is the Higgens project. At 
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Google’s Android will have twitter. Check 
Wetpaint the social publishing platform with a network of over 750,000 social sites, today unveiled a complete set of social networking features to supercharge creation of content on its award-winning wiki service that now unifies the two things people love to do online – socialize and share content with others.With the addition of such new features as a Friends Network, Custom Member Profiles, a What’s New site activity dashboard and Friends Feeds,Wetpaint has created the first truly integrated social publishing platform, empowering anyone to easily create a completely social and collaborative website.“At its essence, online collaboration is a social experience, but on most wikis that aspect has been limited to hidden discussion pages – it’s the equivalent of a cocktail party where no one talks to each other,” said Ben Elowitz, CEO of Wetpaint. “By adding a social dimension to Wetpaint, users are more likely to interact and engage with each other – interaction being the key driver to generating content that has lasting value to not only themselves but a wider reading audience.
