Over 50,000 applications have been added to the Facebook application directory since it first launched two years ago, and Facebook says it’s about to take some steps to clean it up and make it easier to find out what apps your friends are using. In addition, Facebook says it will launch redesigned application profile pages that work like regular Facebook public profile pages at the same time, sometime in the “coming weeks.”

Currently, the app directory is not easily discoverable by users and is a light source of new users for most developers. It lets users view apps according to which ones friends have (”Apps You May Like”), most active, and newest. In addition, apps can be filtered by category, though the distribution between those categories is so uneven that they don’t end up being that useful.

Most advertising money in social networking comes from small businesses and from people like you and me. Advertising on Facebook or LinkedIn is pretty cheap and has a medium success rate .
Other social websites simply  don’t  have  users that could be interested in some products or services;  Let’s not forget that millions of people use these websites on a daily basis , a single user can create a 1000 impressions and not click on any ad.
Social networks like MySpace and Hi5 have the majority of users between 14 and 20 ,young people don’t tend to be interested in different services although they could be potential buyers for tech products.

My conclusion is to never buy ads on impressions , a 1000 $ could get you nowhere.

I hope that this article doesn’t insult anyone, but I really don’t explain to myself why hi5 is the biggest social network in so many countries .
Its new ajax features are way behind Facebook and even those ,had been recently added . What’s really original at Hi5 ,is its system of cancelling ads in your profile and photos(of course that costs money) but I don’t think advertisers are too pleased by that.

I remind you that Hi5 has 90% of the market in 28 countries with a total number of users of 80 million.

India -                                                             24.000.000  users
Thailand-                                                        19.000.000 users
Romania-                                                          9.000.000 users
Argentina-                                                        7.000.000 users
Venezuela-                                                        6.000.000 users
Portugal-                                                            2.000.000 users
Mongolia-                                                               300.000 users
Other Latin-American countries-            7.000.000 users
Other east European countries-                4.000.000 users

Rest of the world-                                         3.000.000 users

This week Myspace fired 45 employs  just a few weeks after they dropped founding CEO ,Chris DeWolfe. Personally Myspace is my least favorite social networks that I use ,it works slow and the changing theme is driving me crazy.
Myspaces popularity is falling hard so really, is not such a mystery why the company has troubles.

PS: Liberals don’t like Myspace because it’s owned by FOX.

This is not news for twitterholics : Today twitter had been down for a bit more than an hour .It seems that getting people to get back to IM after using twitter is like getting people used to mobile phones to communicate thru telegraph .

Another twitt-APOCALYPSE is scheduled for Monday.

When I registered to hi5 the first thing that came up to me is that the front page is really simple for a social network closer to MySpace than any other network.
A few weeks ago Hi5 implemented an IM system , that seems pretty good and creates the illusion that Hi5 is not a bad copy of MySpace.

Need to see a bit more but frankly hi5 is really, really boring .Still, hi5 is the top social network in 28 countries.

I’ll have to look into it a bit more

Maybe it’s just a way on getting attention, or maybe is because blue is “the color you trust” ,not much innovation in colors that is clear .It must be a catch to this, and it is ; it seems that these companies consulted a good psychologist when the logos for these social networks where design .

Hi5 ,Orkut and others never got the idea and they rarely are in the spotlights ;Hi5 in the past month made some really big changes and a lot of people didn’t even noticed.  I will make a complete review on Hi5 and maybe even place a button on the side just for the Indian social network .

Some could say annoyed  “When would it end?” ,but all eyes on twitter one again , just a few hours ago twitter changed its email notification system and TechCrunch.com already has a post about it .I wonder if Techcrunch submitted a new article every time MySpace changed their newsletter.

Twitter is now the popular kid in the class , It seems to be like Barrack Obama ,however bad it screws up  it’s still great for some, and however good its new features are it’s still bad for others ,but every body talks about it.

All eyes on Twitter.