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German social network Xing is down – What's up there?

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

It seems that the German business social network www.xing.com is down since some hours.

some was months ago it a internal server network bla bla failure. But looks more like a DOS attack

 

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How to start a Social Network

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

As I am currently working for www.earthfaves.com we are thinking about how to get people involved in our platform.

The problem is, also when you get people onto the site, how to get the “stickiness”.

I did a lot of research and here are some interesting links on this topic.

FastForward blog on what to do

http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/02/09/social-media-and-social-networking-starter-kit-for-business/

Forrester Blogger Jeremiah on the social network recession

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/02/06/social-media-effective-during-recessions/

He also recommended a free report on interactive marketing

http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,45128,00.html

 

a very good picture comes from Standford university

Source: http://www.stanford.edu/~abronzan/cs73n/images/BusinessPlan.jpg

 

there is also a book “Social Network Business Plan Strategies”

http://www.amazon.de/Social-Network-Business-Plan-Strategies/dp/0470419830/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1223894589&sr=1-2

 

And a intersting drawing by Andrew – how metacalfe’s law work against you

http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2008/05/when-facebook-a.html

 

Here is a nice presentation on “social network best practices” at Slideshare

http://www.slideshare.net/faberNovel/social-network-websites-best-practices-from-leading-services/

Social network websites: best practices from leading services
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And finally a blog entry for selfmarketing with social networks

http://bobsbraindump.com/social-networking-tips-and-business-plan/

 

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QQ.com the real No1 in social networks?!

Sunday, March 30th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

As I already wrote in my thesis last year qq.com will increase importance in the asia web scene.

Not only No1 in social networks with 300m users but also one of the strongest e-money currencies. The so called QQ coin (by tencent)  is forbidden by the chinese government but due to its “digitality” it is impossible for the government to control the circulation. QQ is not only a social network but also a famous instant messenger in asia.

After the discussion going around with second life and legal regulations of the virtual economy there could also start a new discussion soon when other social networks start own currencies inside there networks. Or more likely OpenSocial starts with a own micro-currency for the trade of informations and widgets between social networks.

 The sun is shining but if you are able to read german you could read more about virtual currencies here..

http://de.geocities.com/michaelaltendorf80/Diplomarbeit_MA.pdf

 The topic came up because of this blog entry on asian social networks.

Update: you also could get a bad formatted version here http://michaelaltendorf.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/internet-taxation-and-virtual-worlds/

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Microsoft buying 5% from Facebook for $300-$500Million

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

Boston Globe talks about a Microsoft – Facebook deal

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/09/25/microsoft_reportedly_interested_in_stake_in_facebookcom/

So FAcebook’S overall value should be higher than $10 Billion.

They currently habe more than 39M users and is growing fast. But Facebook still lacks a german version, although this was announced some weeks ago, and so its german clone Studivz also grows

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