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Byline: Tracey Caldwell
Social networking technologies
Social networking sites MySpace and Bebo are heavily used by young people in the UK. LinkedIn is mainly used for professional networking. Ryze, OpenBC and Ecademy are also designed to link business professionals.
Of particular interest to librarians are Libsuccess.org, a best-practice wiki for librarians, and LibraryThing, a web application for storing and sharing personal library catalogues and book lists.
The del.icio.us web service for storing, sharing and discovering web bookmarks may also be customised for certain communities.
Social network analysis tools such as UCInet, Netdraw and Visible Path mine social network systems internally or externally.
Companies will increasingly analyse information from multiple sources to deduce social networks. Analyst firm Gartner believes that businesses can successfully ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Social networking technologies.(Website list)(Brief article)