January 2008: Profiled Social Network Startups + New Approach for SocialCrunch

I'm pleased to announce to you that this blog, SocialCrunch will be taking a new dimension with the profiling of new social networks as from this month of February. Recently, I decided to focus more on new startup social sites that are connecting people together in today's webspace. That new approach started in January 2008 and I was able to profile 10 social networking startups.

If you missed them, here are they:

1. The CollegeLife.com - A New Facebook?

2. JASEzone MashUp Professionals in Google Maps Mashup

3. FoodHood.com - Where Foodies Meet and Eat

4. Livesteez - The New Video Sharing Place for Hip-Hop and African-American Entertainment News

5. Fiction Folks Mash And Make Money At StoryMash.com

6. Next2Friends Launches Beta And Connects Friends Next To Friends

7. Professional Networking at Neurona.it

8. SocialSplash Uses Splash Points to Buy Users?

9. Tadinky Launches and Invites Members Suggestions

10. MC Hammer To Launch Video Sharing Site Called DanceJam.com

Beginning from February, I'm hoping to try a newer approach. At the end of each week starting from the 4th of February, I would briefly review new social network startups for the week and profile the one I consider as "The Social Network of the Week".

Then, I would expect readers of this blog to select what they would consider as "The Social Network of the Week". You can do so on the comments section. Soon, we would set up a weekly poll, where you can vote for 'The Social Network of The Week'.

I value your readership and comments.

SocialCrunching Becomes Beta

I started this blog just 4 weeks ago and my experience with blogging about social networking has been very challenging. For one thing, there is always something related to social networking to blog about and even with other projects on my shoulders, this blog has been able to be relatively consistent with quality posts, decent traffic, and just a few readers.

At the moment, I've decided to concentrate on blogging about social network startups only, which I've been doing, except that the blog has covered so more information about existing social networks such as Myspace, Facebook, etc.

I've been reading Mashable and other social networking blogs and I've come to a conclusion that these blogs post practically anything that forms news around social networks and more. Thus, this blog SocialCrunch will now create a niche by posting gists, news and info about new social networks in any industry or field whether, music, fashion, sports, professions, etc, thus profiling them in relation to new and existing trends in the social media webspace.

I have called this new dimension the blog is exploring SocialCrunch Beta!:)

It's SocialCrunching time!

SocialCrunch, is a weblog that shares information about startup social networks. The blog, created on November 11, 2007, profiles new and existing social networking and business networking sites that are connecting people together on the new webspace.

Are you a social networker? Perhaps, you would be interested in social-crunching on this blog. SocialCrunch will passionately profile startup social sites as well as post updates on existing ones. The blog will also seek to provide relevant statistics from reliable sources such as Hitwise and Alexa of the competition in this new social webspace.

SocialCrunch is managed by Loy, an online advertiser, research consultant and web editor. If you would like to contact SocialCrunch, please send an email to: socialcrunch@gmail.com

Now, let's crunch together!