Comments on: Can $20M Investment Help hi5’s Social Network Compete? http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/07/can-20m-investment-help-hi5s-social-network-compete.html Internet Marketing News Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:17:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: top40mp3andlyrics.blogspot.com http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/07/can-20m-investment-help-hi5s-social-network-compete.html/comment-page-1#comment-57143 top40mp3andlyrics.blogspot.com Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:02:13 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/07/can-20m-investment-help-hi5s-social-network-compete.html#comment-57143 hi 5 community keep increasing and i bet it will challenge myspace someday <em>top40mp3andlyrics.blogspot.com's last blog post..<a href='http://top40mp3andlyrics.blogspot.com/2008/09/sean-kingston-red-dress-mp3-n-lyrics.html' rel="nofollow">Sean Kingston - Red Dress Mp3 N Lyrics</a></em> hi 5 community keep increasing and i bet it will challenge myspace someday

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]]> By: jimbit http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/07/can-20m-investment-help-hi5s-social-network-compete.html/comment-page-1#comment-57142 jimbit Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:00:39 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/07/can-20m-investment-help-hi5s-social-network-compete.html#comment-57142 hmm.. i prefer myspace but i will try hi5 later.. <em>jimbit's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Top10Mp3Download/~3/410885625/click-five-flipside-mp3-n-lyrics.html' rel="nofollow">The Click Five - Flipside Mp3 N Lyrics</a></em> hmm.. i prefer myspace but i will try hi5 later..

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]]> By: Jeff http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/07/can-20m-investment-help-hi5s-social-network-compete.html/comment-page-1#comment-29457 Jeff Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:42:08 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/07/can-20m-investment-help-hi5s-social-network-compete.html#comment-29457 I've had a membership there for years that I almost never use after receiving and invite from a friend I met through Yahoo!360. Whatever hi5's shortcomings, they can't be as bad as Tagged.com. I got sucked into Tagged.com when I received an email from them that had a yahoo-inc.com return address (no lie). Since I have been invited down to the Yahoo! campus based on my interaction with Yahoo! staffers about their "social Web" business model, I mistakenly thought the email was on the up-and-up and assumed that Tagged.com was an acquisition or some sort of incubator project. When I clicked-through the link to the Tagged.com main page, it invited me to "Log In with Your Yahoo! User ID," and if being co-branded with Yahoo! wasn't the site's intent, then the Web master sure did a poor job not making it look like a co-branded Yahoo! property. Once I "logged-on" with my Yahoo! ID and password, the site emailed everyone in my Yahoo! address book not just one invitation, but persistent follow-ups that read included the lines like: "Don't you want to be Jeff's friend?" and "You don't want Jeff to think you're ignoring him, do you?" These were sent to my professional contacts and coworkers as well as my friends and family, all of whom were treated to a wide array of end-user profiles when they clicked-through to the Tagged.com main page. Now, the Web is what it is, but if I were running a social networking site, I think I would try to keep the profiles of transvestites and swingers off my main page, but that's just me. I’ve had a membership there for years that I almost never use after receiving and invite from a friend I met through Yahoo!360.

Whatever hi5’s shortcomings, they can’t be as bad as Tagged.com.

I got sucked into Tagged.com when I received an email from them that had a yahoo-inc.com return address (no lie). Since I have been invited down to the Yahoo! campus based on my interaction with Yahoo! staffers about their “social Web” business model, I mistakenly thought the email was on the up-and-up and assumed that Tagged.com was an acquisition or some sort of incubator project.

When I clicked-through the link to the Tagged.com main page, it invited me to “Log In with Your Yahoo! User ID,” and if being co-branded with Yahoo! wasn’t the site’s intent, then the Web master sure did a poor job not making it look like a co-branded Yahoo! property. Once I “logged-on” with my Yahoo! ID and password, the site emailed everyone in my Yahoo! address book not just one invitation, but persistent follow-ups that read included the lines like:

“Don’t you want to be Jeff’s friend?” and “You don’t want Jeff to think you’re ignoring him, do you?”

These were sent to my professional contacts and coworkers as well as my friends and family, all of whom were treated to a wide array of end-user profiles when they clicked-through to the Tagged.com main page. Now, the Web is what it is, but if I were running a social networking site, I think I would try to keep the profiles of transvestites and swingers off my main page, but that’s just me.

]]> By: Study Guide http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/07/can-20m-investment-help-hi5s-social-network-compete.html/comment-page-1#comment-29447 Study Guide Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:27:14 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/07/can-20m-investment-help-hi5s-social-network-compete.html#comment-29447 Here in Sweden, hi5 is pretty huge. I do hate their ingenious e-marketing though. First time "spam" actually made me sign up to something, there are truly some potentials here. Although, IMO, the marketing has been better than the service it self. Here in Sweden, hi5 is pretty huge. I do hate their ingenious e-marketing though. First time “spam” actually made me sign up to something, there are truly some potentials here. Although, IMO, the marketing has been better than the service it self.

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