Social Niches

Social niches on Twibes

2009-12-29T13:22:00.000-08:00

Just discovered a beehive of social niches
on Twibes.

Thriving social niches on Twibes and a place
where you can create your own.

More specific than Myspace or Facebook or Twitter.
Just the sort of thing that a focused social niche group needs.

Twibes has a fresh and appealing interface, with a touch of Twitter,
but not affiliated to it.

One for you and me http://www.twibes.com/twitter-groups

Enjoy

A Q&A social niche in your messenger service

2009-04-20T08:20:00.000-07:00

Do you have a question to ask from your mobile connection or laptop? Wouldn't it be handy if you could message your friends for an answer? Of course it would.

Your friends may or not have the answers.
How about a network of friends to message to for a question?
Real indeed, now you can, and it plugs right into your messenger or email. Aardvark is your messenger mate, to help you with your questions.
Aardvard at http://vark.com/ is a social network dedicated to Q&A through your messenger or email.

After signing up with Aardvark, you simply enter some details about your location and nature of questions and your usual messenger client, IAM, Microsoft Live Messenger or Google Talk. Then Aardvark will sit in your messenger client, ready for you to simply ask whatever question you may have, related to your declared topics.

Your Aardvark community will return an answer from your network or its tree of networks.

This application demonstrates the power of the application development model for a social network.

2009-03-05T12:01:00.000-08:00

Niche Networks Are The New Wave Of Web 2

Niche networks are the new wave of Web 2 spawning from Facebook and Myspace. Their adoption is growing because they are suited to niche communities, like IT Professionals, catered for by itLinks.com and school communities, catered for by SchoolBridge.com

Small communities don't need the casual style of large social networks and do better with a social niche platform targeted to them. It's a business model suitable to a myriad of niche communities. Marc Horne and Hollis Carter, who started SchoolBridge, envision the coming of a social network empire.

They developed Schoolbridge from the ground up for themselves, but that project inspired them to offer the Schoolbridge platform to the world. SNE was born in 2008 and taken to market in November.

SNE has been designed with a lean interface, but it can be customized to suit the look and design suited to the particular niche, as can be seen here: http://www.imsocialize.com/

SNE is suited to a myriad of niches, like school communities, sports clubs, dating, craft circles, entertainers, etc.

SNE as a network platform for niche communities creates a marketing opportunity ideal for the niche marketers. And the trend for niche communities is there.

Explore SNE at work here: www.schoolbridge.com