The Rise of Social Networking Technologies: video and references

I recently gave a brief, casual presentation on The Rise of Social Networking Technologies to a very interesting group of technology innovation professionals in Sydney called Innovation Bay. A video of my presentation is at http://www.viocorp.com/clients/innovationbay.

I prepared a crib sheet for those attending the talk, as below, giving a few references and thoughts on this space….

What defines this space is that it taps existing connections between people – our “six degrees of separation” – to form new, useful direct connections.

Selected Social Networking Technologies
Social/ dating/ politics
Friendster
Tribe.net
Orkut
I Stand For
Professional
LinkedIn
Ecademy
Ryze
ZeroDegrees.com

Corporate
Spoke
Visible Path
Matcheroo

Related applications
Jobs: Monster.com
CRM: Interaction
Search: Eurekster
Content: LinkSV

Microsoft Research: Wallop

Event technologies
nTag
SpotMe
PowerMingle
CRG
Intro

Business models
Subscription
Subscription for higher-level functionality
Pay per request
Link to classifieds
Targeted advertising
Enterprise implementation

Suggested references
Stanford Business School Alumni Social Networking Panel video
Stowe Boyd's weblog (see especially under Recent Publications)
Friend of a Friend (FOAF)

Later I’ll post some thoughts on where this whole space is going, including industry consolidation, user growth, business models, reputation systems, collaborative filtering, learning on demand, and more. Plenty has already been said on the current primary issues of privacy and extending trust through networks, not that these are close to being resolved…