Social bookmarking involves linking sites within the various forums, blogs and message boards on social networking websites, blog sites and content centric sites like Digg.

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Hey guys -

The Digg team is heading back to Mighty in San Francisco for our last Digg Meetup of the year. Come raise a pint, take a picture or two in the Photoboof, and hear some cool announcements – the perfect way to spend your Wednesday night. In case you haven’t had a chance to attend one of these events, check out some of the footage from our Meetup a few weeks back in London.

We’re also excited to announce some more dates and cities for future Meetups. In the first few months of 2009, we’re heading to LA, Austin, and Seattle – details on the venues and other 2009 events coming soon. As always, for all the latest up-to-date information, make sure to keep an eye on our Meetups page.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon,

Kevin

Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg, and not a co-founder, a Digg PR rep recently informed us, when we mistakenly described Rose as a “co-founder” in a blog post.

It didn’t strike us as weird or unusual until we heard from a guy who claims he is Digg’s co-founder, and he wants a little credit for it.

Owen Byrne, a Canadian developer (and self-described Digg co-founder), wrote in to clarify that he’s not some hard-up engineer in a developing nation — he’s got an MBA and owns equity in Digg.

The issue came up when Rose, while speaking at a conference last week, advised aspiring entrepreneurs to outsource development to help cut costs. Rose said he considered hiring a developer in India or a developer in Nova Scotia, and ultimately went with the guy in Canada, which saved him buckets of money.

“As the guy Kevin outsourced [web development] to, it’s great to see Kevin bring it up over and over, but never bother to mention my name,” wrote Byrne, in response to a recent Epicenter story.

By some accounts, Byrne is widely acknowledged as a co-founder. Thomas Hawk, a blogger and photographer, says Kevin Rose personally notified him that he’d made a mistake when he neglected to describe Owen Byrne as co-founder in a blog post he wrote a couple years ago. But most media mentions — including the famous BusinessWeek cover story on Rose — refer to Rose as the founder of Digg.

A Digg spokesperson wasn’t available to comment.

Digg’s paternity case isn’t all that unique in Silicon Valley, where budding entrepreneurs trample over each other to take credit for the newest, greatest thing. Hubert Chang, an unknown computer scientist, recently claimed he was the third co-founder of Google, and that he helped design the search engine in 1997 with Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

“It was an intensive and interesting collaboration,” said Chang on a bizarre YouTube video.

Although Chang claims he was introduced to Brin and Page through a Stanford professor Rajeev Motwani, the professor said it wasn’t true.

“To the best of my knowledge, his claims about being a founder of Google, coming up with the name and/or the business plan etc, are completely unfounded in reality. I am sure I would have noticed a third founder, if one existed, since I was working closely with Larry and Sergey at Stanford the time,” Motwani told InformationWeek.

And after YouTube was acquired by Google for $1.7 billion, a third YouTube co-founder popped up out of nowhere. Jawed Karim, the third founder, said he didn’t begrudge YouTube poster boys Chad Hurley and Steven Chen their fame and fortune, but he wanted a little credit.

“It took the three of us,” Karim told USA Today.

That may be true, but Karim doesn’t get a mention on the official company bio.

Photo: Flickr/Thomas Hawk

Source: blog.wired

Fast growing social network Facebook has hit the 100 million users mark, according to a statement today by Dave Morin, the company’s Senior Platform Manager.

How does that compare to MySpace’s ascent? A guy named Rick appears to have become MySpace’s 100 millionth registered user in 2006. MySpace took 3 years after launch to hit that magic number; for Facebook it took 4 years and 6 months.

Drama
The first years of MySpace were characterized by music and spam, while Facebook’s beginnings were in college parties and drama. That drama continues today. For example, the company reports that only 20% of its 100 million users have visited the dramatically redesigned version of the site by clicking on a button at the top of their screen in recent weeks. Facebook users don’t like change.

The company wants to spin the 20% number as a positive embrace of the changes (and the ordinarily fabulous Eric Eldon at Venture Beat buys that spin for some reason) but in fact it fits in the history of conflict between Facebook and its users.

Innovation and Monetization
None the less, the site is growing by leaps and bounds. 100 million registered users probably includes a substantial number of regularly active users. Now if only the company could figure out how to monetize those numbers as well as they’d like.

We believe they will probably figure it out. More interesting to us is watching Facebook develop its feature set, leading then falling behind in innovation. 100 million registered users is a lot of people to innovate with.

Unfortunately for Facebook, sometimes it seems that those people are not interested in innovation or monetization – they just want to communicate with each other. I guess when you call yourself a “utility” some people expect you to remain unexciting.

Visit http://www.facebook.com

In today’s context social networking is about connecting with people at a low cost with existing devices and technology. Until a few years ago it used to be that you had six degrees of separation to connect with anybody in the world. With the advent of networking tools and search it has become easier to span those six degrees of separation and the ability to connect is now just a couple of mouse clicks away.

In India social networking might evolve differently when compared to the USA or other countries. But, before delving deeper into how social networking will evolve in India let us look at what is social networking.

What is Social Networking? Social network is defined as “a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of relations, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, sexual relations, disease transmission (epidemiology), or airline routes.” (Wikipedia)

This social networking concept spread to the computer world in the 1970s when researchers envisioned people connecting and interacting via computers. So in the pre-Mosaic and pre-Netscape days of the197s to mid-1990s you had Usenet groups for various interests. For instance, soc.culture.indian was a Usenet group where many Indian students in the USA got their questions answered about travel, graduate programs or connecting with their classmates. Out of soc.culture.indian grew various Usenet groups for different Indian states and languages.

During the dotcom boom you had social networking groups like sixdegrees.com, classmates.com , epinion, and others. What was different about these groups was an instant ability to browse and search through archives in an easy way. Then in early 2002 a new avatar of social networking took off in a big way with the launch of Friendster, Orkut, MySpace, Facebook and Linkedin among others. What these sites have in common is a rich (including multimedia) feature set that allows for sharing information easily and some sites allow for integration of third-party widgets and applications. So, social networking in its different avatars has been around in the USA for over 30 years (if you factor in the Usenet groups.)

Viral Marketing India:
In India social networking is a relatively new concept due to obvious reasons: low penetration of PCs and laptops and patchy broadband connections. What that means is that while people were aware of these social networking groups and applications they had limited means to access them. However in the last four years the social networking landscape has changed quite a bit in India. In a relatively short period of time certain social networking sites like Orkut and Fropper appear to have taken off, and new ones like Linkedin and Facebook are beginning to find traction among Indian users. What is driving this traction is still unclear. Is it the novelty of being able to network with people? Or, is there a genuine interest driving this adoption?

Source by topseo.org