CHAPTER 7 : VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES TO SOCIAL NETWORKS

Virtual community is a gathering place for people and business that does not have a physical exercise .

Early web communities

1 . 1985- WELL ( "whole earth " lectronic link")

  1. 1995 - Beverly Hills Internet Virtual Community site

3 . 1995 - Tripod virtual community

  1. 1995 - Theglobe.com Cornell University class project

Social Networking Emerges

1997- Six degrees

1998

1999- QQ

2000

2001

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2002 - Friendster

2003

Tribet.net

Myspace

Linkedlin

Orkut

Facebook

2004 - Mixi

Gree

2005- Renren

Ozone

Youtube

2006- Mobage-town

Odnoklassniki

Twitter

2007- VKontakle

2008

2009- Sina Web

WebQQ

2010- Stority

2011- Google+

Social Networking sites :

Web Logs (Blogs)

Microblogs

Participatory journalisme

Location - aware mobile social networks

Business uses of networking

Social media in business is still evolving and there aremany opinions on what companies should and should not do with social networking tools.

Social media engagement can provides much more information about customer and potenial customer

Comapnies can interact with their customer (for supplier ) in ways that are different from and more expensive than the roles traditionally taken in buyer- seller relationship

Virtual Learning Networks

Social Shopping sites

Idea - based social Networking

Open -source software

Revenue models for social networking sites

Adversiting - supported social networking sites

Mixed- revenue and fee-for-services social network sites

Fee-based social networking

Microlending sites

Crowdfunding sites