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Why Social Networking? 
What is social networking? It's
online communities such as “MySpace” and “Facebook”, where people
add their friends, post photos and entries in the form of a
blog, “network” based on shared interests or likes/dislikes,
and interact with each other. This phenomenon is also growing
staggeringly popular. MySpace currently has 176 million users.
And Facebook, now the 18th-most-visited web site in the world,
did not even exist until three years ago!
Social networking has been called
“The reality TV of the Internet”; and analysts predict it will
continue to grow massively rather than being just a passing
fad.
A Nielsen//NetRatings report in
May 2006 stated that social networking sites were already last
year being used by 45% of web users, and traffic to these sites
increased 87% over the last year.
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People just love collecting their online contacts in
one place, and sharing their opinions! Like blogs (short
for “weblogs”), publishing diaries and expressing opinions
in an online forum holds a very powerful attraction for
us.
According to Technorati, there are over 70 million blogs
on the Internet, with about 120,000 new ones being set
up each day. That’s 1.4 new blogs every second!
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Plus, the interactive nature of
social networking sites keeps visitors coming back again
and again. You can probably begin to see what kind of effect
a combined social networking and a global games network might
achieve…it’s like a huge arena filled with millions of people
in one place, all wanting to play! Imagine being able to harness
this powerful medium, and even better, using it to fuel your
new online games business...
Well that is exactly what you will
be able to do! Not only that, but you can also automatically
add all of your current contacts from MSN, Google, AIM and Yahoo!
Messenger. THAT’S RIGHT … we are talking about a web-based instant
communicator that allows you to send instant messages, view
all of your contacts’ online statuses, social network, AND play
games, all at the same time, in the same place.
Integrating social networking
into your games site gives your business the power to spread
virally. Players passing on links to your games website
though their blogs and messenger will give your business enormous
potential to grow rapidly as more and more players continually
challenge new friends.
Your players and Associates will
be able to use their own uVme blog to share experiences and
communicate to all their friends. Players can earn more loyalty
points to unlock even more functionality in their blog, from
larger storage capacity, to RSS feeds, plus lots more. These
elements usually cost on other social networking sites, but
your players can access these for free simply by playing more
and more games and having fun!
For
all the details, click here
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