IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BALL BEARINGS... WELL, ALL ABOUT SOCIAL NETWORKS HERE

Great line from "Fletch", one of my favorite movies during my junior high school years. Anyway, here are a few articles and posts on social networks:

Social Networking and Blogging: Who Cares?
Irving Wladawsky-Berger asserts this is a big deal: we've cracked knowledge management, and the impact is everywhere from big business to small communities. (AlwaysOn)

Social Networks: More Bubble Than Profit?
Sites like MySpace and Tagged generate millions of visits by users, some fanatical. But that does not a business model make (BusinessWeek)

David vs. Murdoch er …. Goliath.

If history of online communities is any indication, then myYearbook seems to be a worthy contender against the reigning champ of social networks, Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace.
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But myYearbook is different. It’s beyond cool… it’s orthogonal to cool. For the teenagers in high school, it’s rapidly becoming a necessity… on par with other daily essentials like IM, email, and a cell phone, it’s not just a nice thing to have, it’s becoming a must-have. The way myYearbook does this is by providing teenagers with the tools to digitally and seamlessly extend nearly every aspect of their lives. (GigaOM's full post)