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31 commentsWednesday, January 7, 2009

The Year in Social Media: 2008

The Meat and Potatoes

31 Comments

By Liam Vickery (WPN reader) - Wed, 01/07/2009 - 12:34

Great social networking 2009

Hi readers! I personally am currently using:

Twitter
Facebook
Myspace
In that order.

Also check out:
Friendfeed
SecondBrain

(These sites take feeds from the others and aggregate your feeds and activities elsewhere online into one place. Very nice... so they update as the others do.)

There is also tumblr, plurk, identi.ca, orkut, and many more.

Why stop at one or choose or limit yourself? Branch out people: It's about connecting with people, you will meet heaps of new people through experimentation. Each network has a different crowd too. Why not get your fingers into a few different pies for a change?

Happy social networking 2009 people!

By Video Converter OS X (WPN reader) - Fri, 05/08/2009 - 02:15

we done with your help.

By forklifts (WPN reader) - Tue, 01/06/2009 - 09:31

Thanks for Twellow

I hated twitter until I came upon twellow. I really don't care what other people are doing, but I joined a group of web dev's that post regularly and have good info. Thanks.

By Chris Crum - Tue, 01/06/2009 - 10:18

RE: Thanks for Twellow

Glad to hear you enjoy Twellow. It really is useful for just that type of scenario.

By typhone (WPN reader) - Tue, 01/06/2009 - 07:54

RE

Great overview, Digged! I love Youtomb btw.

Ps. What is 4chan?

By STRAIGHTALK (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/05/2009 - 10:18

Thanks for

post it very helpful, and I was able to do somethings with this list.. thank you once again.

By Invisalign (WPN reader) - Sun, 01/04/2009 - 15:08

Twitter & Myspace

I have used these social networks for some time now and I really don't know what life would be without them. I have meet so many people! I even met my livein gf on myspace.

By The Virtual Consulting Firm (WPN reader) - Sun, 01/04/2009 - 12:30

Great Chronology of this Hot New Wave of Social Media

Great Chronology of this Hot New Wave of Social Media, Thank You, Chris! :)

Won't it be interesting to see all the new developments and changes in 2009! :)

Thank you again, Chris, for this Great Article and for documenting all these new developments with this Hot New Wave of Social Media for 2008! :) and Everyone Have a Great Day! :)

By Michael D. Massie (WPN reader) - Sun, 01/04/2009 - 08:51

nice article on social media

Wow, I've been studying this whole phenomena a lot, and your article clued me into aspects of Web 2.0 that I wasn't even aware of... looking forward to more like this in the future.

By Remko Siemerink (WPN reader) - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 07:33

Social networking and architecture.

Thanks for the great post, check http://archtctr2.0.viernulvier.nl ... A research project on social networking, architecture, geography, a.s.o. ...

By Free Traffic (WPN reader) - Fri, 01/02/2009 - 01:01

New Player

Thanks for the very informative article... But you forgot to mention the new search player - HopHunt.

By Chris Crum - Tue, 01/06/2009 - 10:16

RE: New Player

That's why we have comments....to keep the discussion going. Thanks.

By Shaikh Izaj Ahmed Abdul Razak (WPN reader) - Fri, 01/02/2009 - 00:33

I like this style of news.

This newletter expalined the details of the whole past year , I like this style news : Thanks .
Siaar - of Siaar Group.

By exModia (WPN reader) - Fri, 01/02/2009 - 00:09

You overlooked Jason

You overlooked Jason Goldberg's SocialMedian that was acquired by German-based Xing in December proving that this market is not just hot, but that it's poised to lead the next interactive revolution.

By Chris Crum - Tue, 01/06/2009 - 10:15

RE: You overlooked Jason

Thanks for sharing!

By david (WPN reader) - Thu, 01/01/2009 - 23:51

Good

Good Information. Happy New year by the way.

By Jim (WPN reader) - Thu, 01/01/2009 - 20:38

nice

Very informative timeline...should do this for more topics!

By skepto (WPN reader) - Thu, 01/01/2009 - 19:29

Social Media Networking sites and Yuwie

The most prominent social media sites like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, which is a giant in the Asian market, should take into consideration the efforts of its members that made possible their successes at least with some token of gratitude. With advertisers who pays them approximately $20M a month which is a really big amount, I think that these guys should think about giving back a least a reasonable chunk of its revenue or even a small portion of their RSR back to its avid followers. Why am I talking about this? Because there is one social networking site that does it. I certainly would be engaged in signing up for them after knowing exactly how they work and basically because my efforts are paid. I certainly believe that in no time, these solid fans from MySpace, Facebook, etc., will eventually turn its back and look somewhere else wherein they will earn while they socialize. I'm not advocating on anyone's side here. FYI, so you'll know what am I talking about, "click here".

By Ron (WPN reader) - Thu, 01/01/2009 - 19:16

Looking forward to 2009

2008 was a great year for Social Media, thanks for the list.
I can't wait to see what 2009 will bring.

By St. Louis Web Marketing (WPN reader) - Thu, 01/01/2009 - 16:04

social media

Thanks so much for the great timeline.
Facebook over MySpace, all day.

By Michelle Goebel (WPN reader) - Thu, 01/01/2009 - 15:28

Social Media MySpace vs Facebook

I'm one of the old geezers and never really clicked with myspace. Haven't really used it, but I had several really young teenagers trying to access my site. From what I understand, Facebook has more business related networking go on. That's the difference I've noticed. Hope we all have a more prosperous 2009.
Michelle Goebel

By Chris Crum - Tue, 01/06/2009 - 10:14

RE: Social Media MySpace vs Facebook

I've seen plenty of businesses using MySpace as a valuable marketing tool as well.

By Webcruiser (WPN reader) - Thu, 01/01/2009 - 13:11

Social Media and Blogs

I was just surfing by and I have to agree social media has become a very large part of the web today.

One site that has taken in a big chunk of the web this last year and is not full of kiddies and spam is BlogDumps this site has so many features it takes a few visits to take it all in!
You can upload and share videos, music, photos and flash games it's like all your favorite sites Myspace Youtube etc... all rolled into one!
I really like the new High Def video player they have just launched.
They even have their own Instant messenger! I love this site, I guess you can tell.

That's my two cents worth...

Happy new year!

By Køb Nupo (WPN reader) - Thu, 01/01/2009 - 11:51