http://socialnetworkingobserver.com an independent blog focusing on social network(ing) websites Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:47:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en LeMonde.fr posted a graphic showing which social network websites are most visited by continent. According to this graphic, MySpace, Facebook and Bebo are the most visited social network websites in North America, while Bebo, MySpace and Skyrock are the most popular ones in Europe. Latin America favours Orkut, Hi5 and ... http://socialnetworkingobserver.com/2008-02-26/popularity-of-social-network-websites-by-continent-and-country/ Did you know... that Facebook and MySpace image uploaders are currently vulnerable to attack? More information >> that Flock 1.1, the social Web browser, will be released in a few weeks? Read a review here. that Paramount will sell virtual goods based on some of its films on Habbo? that according to one study, ... http://socialnetworkingobserver.com/2008-02-06/did-you-know-2/ Here is a non-exhaustive list of social networking websites by subject. I have put the most popular site of every section in bold. This page will be updated regularly. Top 10 regardless of focus 1. YouTube : video sharing 2. MySpace: general 3. Facebook: general 4. Hi5: general 5. Orkut: general 6. Fotolog: photo sharing 7. Friendster: ... http://socialnetworkingobserver.com/2008-02-06/list-of-social-networking-websites-by-subject/ In May 2007, Facebook announced it was opening its platform to developers. This resulted in the creation of over 15,000 applications that interact with Facebook's core features. Nine months later, MySpace is ready to do the same. This may come as a surprise since MySpace used to be more than reluctant ... http://socialnetworkingobserver.com/2008-02-04/is-the-myspace-developer-platform-good-news-for-myspacers/ MOLI.com was launched on January 28 at the DEMO 08 conference. In the press release Mainstream Holdings, Inc. Expands Its Social Networking Site MOLI.com With New Funding: $29.6 Million From Private Investors, MOLI is described as a next-generation social networking site where members can manage multiple profiles in one account. Members ... http://socialnetworkingobserver.com/2008-02-02/sneak-peek-at-molicom/ Is MySpace Over? That is the question asked by Ashley Phillips in her article at ABCNews. I will be honest. I do have a MySpace account but I never even attempted to find out if my friends were on MySpace. I opened an account to find out what MySpace was all ... http://socialnetworkingobserver.com/2008-02-01/is-myspace-becoming-irrelevant/ Did you know... ... that, according to some, social network websites make breaking up even harder to do? ... that a social network for Christians was launched? ... that a social network for pet lovers was launched? ... that a DIY phishing service was discovered? ... that, according to some, social network websites make breaking ... http://socialnetworkingobserver.com/2008-02-01/did-you-know/ Many articles are reporting that MyCBBC, BBC's new "social network website" for children, is being launched to offer an alternative for children who are too young for MySpace, Facebook and other such social networking websites. They report the dismissive critics as follows: The BBC is going beyond its core purposes and ... http://socialnetworkingobserver.com/2008-01-29/bbc-to-launch-a-social-network-website-for-6-to-12-year-olds/ In an article titled MySpace Bug Leaks 'Private' Teen Photos to Voyeurs (Jan 17 2008), Kevin Poulsen reported that the photographs of some MySpace users with private profiles could be accessed simply by putting the user's account number into a specially constructed URL 1. This only worked if the ... http://socialnetworkingobserver.com/2008-01-28/myspace-security-failures/ After seven teenagers committed suicide in South Wales in the past year, people are starting to feel social network website can be quite dangerous. Many of the victims were using Bebo, a social network website where friends of the victims have posted "memory walls". Wayne Davies at icWales sees it ... http://socialnetworkingobserver.com/2008-01-28/are-social-networking-websites-dangerous/