There's a reason that Read/WriteWeb is our site-of-the-month (https://www.donationcoder.com/Links/index.html) for October. Here comes another nice roundup of social networking sites:
MySpace is booming in popularity; Facebook is gracing the headlines again; Bebo is growing incredibly; Tribe relaunched; Cyworld, Hive7 and SecondLife are nothing short of a phenomenon; LinkedIn is becoming 'People Search'; ITToolbox relaunched with a host of social networking features; Friendster is now refueling itself to enter the market again.
Put simply, social networking is hot and there is plenty of money and action in the SNS space to prove it.
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There are hundreds of emergent social networks, but I've shortlisted a few that are worth keeping an eye on (apart from the obvious ones, like MySpace and Facebook):
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