Tadinky Launches and Invites Members Suggestions

Tadinky.com, the latest lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, announced today the beta launch of it's new Wiki-style website, opening the door to innovative changes suggested by its members.

The social site's founders are hoping to avoid the mistakes of social giants such as MySpace, Friendster and Facebook that have "all had their limitations, as proven by disgruntled members, while refusing to implement any changes or ideas offered by their members." For their business 'their customers (users) are always right'. Thus, they have welcomed suggestions for improvement of the site. Sounds like a humble beginning, huh?

Tadinky is launched in beta form as a stripped-down version of a standard social networking website while awaiting the first qualified suggestion. The new website has the usual features of social networks such as profiles, photos, blog, email, instant messaging, etc. The site currently has 22 members, 6 friends, 2 blog entries and 1 comment. Unfortunately, it has no traffic rank yet from Alexa.

About Tadinky
Tadinky, a part of Dreamry, Inc., is the latest lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, networking with like-minded people, and creating changes that would have an immediate impact. By integrating web profiles, instant messaging, e-mail, music streaming, music videos, photo galleries, and member blogs, Tadinky has created a connected and responsive community. Tadinky will continue to evolve with new features and exciting changes.

Via: TheOpenPress

Can Safe, Clean Online Communities Be Good Alternatives?

I recently wrote a post about a new social network called ConnectHit, launched on November 1 which claims to offer a safe, clean, fun alternative to popular sites such as Myspace and Facebook. But due to the huge attention that these popular social sites are gaining, it seems that little has been said about ConnectHit especially in the media.

After one month of launch, ConnectHit is having 12 members, 5 up from when I wrote the post on November 12. That's not really bad for a new social site. The site's got a user friendly interface and an interesting look. So what is really up? Is there a problem with the marketing? I'm hoping that David Zoffer, the founder of ConnectHit is asking these questions and more.

While we wait to see an increased traffic and membership strength from ConnectHit, an eye into another social network that also offers a safe, clean online community called our-social.com shows that the site is gaining popularity. I peeked into the site after I received a detailed profile from the social site's founder, Theresa Adams. The site's traffic by Alexa is increasing rapidly and it's forum currently has over 250 members.

Our-Social.com's goal is to provide a community free of profanity and pornographic material, a user friendly environment, a great place to meet friends and a place to share stuff with your friends and family.

In the meantime, I'll be following the trend of these safe, clean social networking alternatives and hoping that they really make great alternatives to the really popular sites .

Will Facebook 's Web Traffic Overtake Daunt Myspace?

Hmm, I bet Myspace didn't see this one coming. The leading social networking site has been striving to curb the threat of Facebook within the past months, but web traffic statistics now show Facebook has finally overtaken Myspace in daily page views and reach.

The Alexa’s new traffic statistics has made Facebook the sixth most viewed website worldwide, the spot previously held by Myspace. View the stats below:

The latest three months graph shows no substantial increase in Myspace’s traffic, while Facebook’s traffic consistently increased over the same period.

Recently, thousands of American Facebook members signed a petition to stop the new advertising program called Facebook Beacon, a behavioral tracking system which enables Facebook user's customers to share the actions they take on user's website with their Facebook friends. Some of the protest groups, however, paid Facebook to advertise on the site and therefore bring additional website traffic.

Though web traffic is one of the most important factors to determine the leading social networking site, other factors such as revenue conversion, membership size and level of active members play very important role. Currently with more than 50 million users, Facebook is still far behind Myspace with over 200 million users.

Whether Facebook will continue to gain its traffic momentum over Myspace is not the question. The real question is: Will Facebook eventually overtake Myspace's membership size?

Top 10 U.S. Social Network and Blog Site Rankings for October

It's not surprising that MySpace tops the rankings of top U.S. social-networking sites again, with more than 58.8 million unique visitors in October, according to the custom lists of top U.S. social-networking sites and blogs compiled by Nielsen.

Ranked second among social-networking sites, Facebook increased the number of visitors to 19.5 million, up 125 percent compared to October 2006 record. MySpace visitors increased 19 percent year over year. (See table of top 10 social-networking sites for October)

Among blog sites, Google’s Blogger remains top blog site in rankings with 34.1 million visitors. Blogger increased its visitors with a significant 58 percent from the year-earlier period, reaching 34.1 million visitors. (See table of top 10 blog sites for Oct.)

More impressively, however, WordPress moved up the rankings to the No. 2 position, and accounted for 11.4 million visitors, up from 2.1 million last year.

Six Apart Type Pad, dropping to No. 3, also grew - 20 percent - to nearly 10.6 million visitors in October.

(See this table to make month-to-month [Sept. ‘07 vs. Oct. ‘07] comparisons for blog sites.)

Via: Media Buyer Planner

Social Networks Overtake Web-based Emails in the UK

If you've been following the statistics of social networks recently , you'll find that social networks are starting to eat into the web-based email providers' dominance of the internet messaging market. That simply means that visits to social networks seems to have overtaking those of web-based email services such as Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail, amongst others.

A recent survey by Hitwise, an online intelligence service revealed that for the first time last month, UK Internet visits to social networks overtook visits to web-based email services. In October, the top 25 social network sites including Myspace, Facebook, Bebo received 5.17% of all UK internet visits, compared to 4.98% for email services.




Well, we can say that this trend will increase in the coming months as the UK web-user population is choosing to communicate more with friends via social networks rather than email. And there's no doubt that these social networks also refer as much traffic to other websites as web-based email services.

Whatever happens, I think that social networks would continue to rely on the technologies and services of web-based email for their expansion. And users would still need these web-based emails to communicate.

ConnectHit to Compete with Facebook and MySpace?

Social networkers may now socialize on a safe, clean, new social network called ConnectHit. Hopefully. Launched on November 1, 2007, the social networking features of ConnectHit.com is described as free, clean, and safe to create one's own private community.

ConnectHit allows members (currently 7 members in the network) to share photos, blogs and interests with their growing network of friends. They can create and customize their profile pages, use chat rooms, instant messaging, create forums, quizzes, polls, and pictures.

Popular sites such as MySpace.com, Xanga.com and Facebook.com have been under heavy scrutiny and criticism more recently for the social risks they expose members to. However, ConnectHit.com plans to enter this arena as the safe, clean, fun alternative to these popular sites that are getting a lot of media attention these days.

But can ConnectHit stand the competition?