But otherwise, it appeared to go well, including an unintentional dig at a competing social network service.
Baidu is the country's main search engine, and Sina runs Sina Weibo, China's most popular Twitter-like micro-blogging social network service.
Pishevar thinks that now that Gmail has a social-network service like Buzz built in, which adds social, real-time and location-based information to the mix, the service becomes an interesting proposition to gamers and developers.
The application, called Genesys Connect for Service Cloud, will integrate with the Salesforce.com platform to allow for voice and multi-social network customer service capabilities.
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Meanwhile, Facebook is planning a partnership with Spotify to bring music streaming to the social network with a service that could be launched in as little as two weeks, this blog reported.
Instant messages (IMs) from chat clients and from within social network services provide the same service for essentially free.
The Spiceworks service has a social network for IT professionals to ask questions, share information and discuss issues related to their work.
The Oracle Public Cloud will include Oracle Fusion CRM, Oracle Java Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network and other services.
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The social network just launched its own communications service so you'll never have to trouble yourself with Gmail or anyone else's chat services.
Oracle recently announced the Oracle Public Cloud, which combines Oracle Fusion CRM, Oracle Java Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network and other services.
Less than a month after photo social network Instagram caught huge flak over advertiser-friendly changes to its privacy policy (and claimed it was misunderstood), another social network, the location check-in service Foursquare, has announced revenue-friendly changes to its privacy policy.
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And what about a roulette service for that other major social network, Facebook?
In the past few years, it has closed down under-performing and non-core sites like social bookmarking service Delicious, search engine AltaVista, online news aggregator Buzz, and social network MyBlogLog.
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It already has a social network, Orkut, and a Twitter-like service called Jaiku, but neither has been wildly successful.
Ning started off as a free service for anyone to create a social network and many people created sites around hobbies or interests.
I've been keeping an eye on the prices of the business social network LinkedIn and Pandora, the internet streaming radio service, and wondering whether history is repeating itself.
Apple made the case for a game-based social network more difficult by adding new features to its Game Center service.
In June this year, Habbo Hotel, a popular social network for children, temporarily suspended the chat function on its service, following claims paedophiles were using the virtual hotel to groom youngsters for sex.
Zoosk has even cleverly piggybacked on Facebook, enabling its users to import their details from the social network to populate their profiles on Zoosk's fast-growing service.
Although the service is by far the world's biggest social network, there are key areas, such as China and Russia, where local competitors still remain the online networking tool of choice.
Spiceworks of Austin, Texas, which runs a social network for information-technology professionals, plans to announce a new testing service this week.
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, chief executive of the Swedish online payments company Klarna AB, says Facebook is only as valuable as the information a consumer is willing to share with the social network and whether that consumer is willing to connect the financial service to their Facebook data.
Three possibilities proposed by Cox: a "peer-to-peer" social network, a cluster of "virtual individual servers" running on a cloud service such as Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, and "hybrid decentralization, " a mix of the two approaches.
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The location based social network has been purchased by Facebook, and as part of the deal, the service will be switched off in January 2012.
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LinkedIn is proving one can make money charging for access to a social network, a testament to the career-building and sales-prospecting power of its service.
One service of the PlayStation Network the company wants to promote is PlayStation Home, a social game network that has been relatively overlooked in the past.
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The service, Facebook Exchange, will let advertisers reach specific types of users on the social network based on their browsing history, Annie Ta, a company spokeswoman, said in an interview yesterday.
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Mr Friedman's contacts seem more promising: the Seasteading Institute received lots of cash from Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who founded the internet payment service PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, the world's biggest social network.
Short of geo-locking the service to stay inside America, information based start-ups (which means pretty much any social network) need to be very aware of what they do with personal data.
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