MySpace’s effort to emulate the distinguishing status updates feature of Facebook went down quickly after introduction and remains down:
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In another example of cooptition, the niche social network / food & entertainment review site has established a presence on Yelp with its Hangouts application. The app is not much to write home about but it is a good example of outside companies finding value in joining the Facebook ecosystem — and integrating in a [...]

I saw this funny post by social networking expert Stowe Boyd yesterday:
I have been exploring a bunch of the new stuff on my Facebook account.
Question: Why does Facebook only allow me one blog to be imported? I write three, and they represent different sides of my character. This is a show stopper in the long [...]

While not a very useful application, Food Fight does demonstrate the intrinsic power of playful social interaction over glitzy effects.  Food Fight, developed by David Gentzel of Virginia Tech (Go Hokies!), extends the psychology behind the poke.  As in MMORPGs like Warcraft or with virtual roses in Hotornot, users of the application spend a virtual currency on [...]