FRINGE NETWORKS

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FT13469 Sakshi JalotaFT13103 Alekhya YeluriFT13220 Garima YadavFT13121 Deepak Sharma(www.deepaksportal.com)FT13489 Devanshu Sirohi www.about.me

www.FriendFeed.comwww.Claim.iowww.GoodReads.comwww.Geni.comwww.yammer.com

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY FRINGE NETWORKS

Fringe services are those services which work across different social networking sites and help users to get better exposure related to information, communication etc.

Advantages.• link multiple online identities

• Consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS

• Protect your brand on 300 social media networks, works as a "social media identity insurance”

• “Social Cataloging“, search their extensive database of books, annotations, and reviews.

• Creates ”Family Tree”, verifying information and on new avenues of research, rather than spending time duplicating research that others have already done.

• Private communication within organizations or between organizational members and pre-designated groups.

About.me•Personal web hosting service co-founded by Ryan Freitas, Tony Conrad and Tim Young in October 2009

•About. me provides a place for a user to have a professional looking calling card.

•Users can upload a picture that becomes the background for the page.

•Templates allow users to write a short profile, and link their page on the site to other social network sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and personal blogs.

•One place where users can create one concise profile, and visitors can find immediately everything they want them to know.

•Dashboard with stats on visitors, where they came from, social media reach and how much time the visitors have spent on the page.

•It was acquired by AOL in 2010 however bought back on Feb 5 th, 2013.

About.me

About.meShort, easy to

remember URL

Big picture of the User

Many ways to interact like

Email, Share etc.

A bio to tell the user’s story

Connection to Social sites

About.me offers:Business CardsIphone AppEmail Address

Benefits:Online PresencePublic ProfileBusiness MarketingPersonnel HomepageJob SearchCentral point of contact

What is it?•Claim.io, an Olive Interactive product, allows you to claim your name and protect your brand on 300 social media networks.•Works as a "social media identity insurance", protecting you from name squatting and identity fraud, minimizing risk to your brand.

Claim.io

Brand Protection• Ensures that you own % control your online

presence

Search Engine Visibility• Each account created becomes a site that

points back to the website.

Brand Exposure• Social media site exposure with each site

pointing to primary site.

What does it do?

Claim.ioPlace an order (with

logo, info etc)

Pay through PayPal

Verification of the content

An email address generated to register 300

accounts

How does it work?

For:BusinessCorporateEnterprise

Who needs it?Commercial Banks,Sports Players,Agencies,Product names,Universities,Any individual or a business with a reputation worth protecting.

Friend Feed

• Friend Feed is an app which enables one to discover and discuss the interesting things friends find on website.

• There are popular friend feeders on the Friend feed that one can follow

• Friend Feed is a real time aggregator that consolidates the updates from Social Media and Social Networking sites, Social Bookmarking sites, blogs and micro blogging updates as well as RSS/Atom Feed.

• The goal of Friend Feed according to friend feed is to make web content more relevant and useful by existing social networks such as tool for discovering interesting information.

• It facilitates tracking of their own member’s social media activities on their

Services Offered

• Blogging- Ameba, Baidu, Blogger, Tumblr, Live Journal, Skyrock• Books- Goodreads, Librarything.• Status-Brightkite, Facebook, gmail, Pluk, Twitter, identi.ca• Video- dailymotion, Joost, Seesmic, Vimeo , youtube.• Bookmarking- Delicious, Diigo, Furl, Hatena, Mister Wong,

StumbleUpon, Twine• Photos- Flickr, Fotolog, Photobucket, Picasa, Smugbug, Zoomr.• Music- ilike, Last.fm, Pandora• Comments- Backtype, Disqus,

Yammer Launch and History

• On September 2008, Yammer was launched at Techcrunch50 conference.

• In February 2010, the company launched “communities”, which are networks for which access is not restricted by domain, thus allowing business to connect to groups such as customers, partners and suppliers.

• In September 2010, Yammer 2.0 was launched, and aimed at being a fully featured social network for the enterprise.

• The new version of Yammer is to be designed more than a communications platform and it has been described as Facebook for businesses.

Yammer

• Yammer is a freemium enterprise social network service that launched in 2008 and sold to Microsoft in 2012.on 25th June 2012, Microsoft acquired Yammer.

• Yammer is used for private communication within organisations members and pre-designated groups , making it an example of enterprise social network.

• Originally launched as micro blogging service and now has applications on different operating systems and services.

• Access to user network is determined by a user’s Internet domain, so only those with appropriate email address may join their respective networks.

GOODREADS.COM

A mission in this age of technology• Goodreads' mission is to help people find and

share books they love• Along the way, they plan to improve the process

of reading and learning throughout the world.How does it work ?• When a person adds a book to the site, all their

friends can see it.• People are more likely to get excited about a

book their friend recommends than a suggestion from a stranger.

• An amazing algorithm helps you find other books based on what fellow Goodreads members with similar tastes enjoyed. 

The concept of ‘Shelves’• Start with three default shelves (read, currently-

reading, and to-read).• Can create ones own bookshelves - any category

that suits your personal taste. Some of our favorite shelves include to-reread, chicklit.

• Add books to your shelves, search by author name or book title.

• Record the date your read the book, and even note whether you own a copy.

Goodreads is a social network for book lovers.

There are a lot of people there. Set reading goals and track

them. There are numerous ways for

authors to connect with readers.

It features reader reviews. It includes self-published books. As with Pinterest, I’m not saying

you HAVE to join. You can share your favorite

quotes from books.

8 Things you should know ..

Oh ! The Numbers …

14,000,000 members who have added more than 480,000,000 books

The site is a host to roughly 20,000 online book clubs for every preference

314 clubs for paranormal romance fans alone.

Number of reviews - 21 million and counting..

Set up a profile

Find your friends or make new

onesAdd your

favorite booksFind book

recommendations

Rate books to get better

recommendations

Find awesome quotes

Add some of your favorite

quotesJoin or start a

discussion group

Create a reading

challenge for the yearBe social

Add a widget to your website

Enjoy the awesome app for iPhone or

iPad

GENI.COM

50,000,000 profiles3,500,000 registered users

50% of Geni users are outside the U.S

Additional pay services include

enhanced research tools and premium

support

Geni was a winne

r of the

2007 Webware 100 Awar

ds

November 2012, Geni was

acquired by

MyHeritage

Ltd

Geni Named One of “Best Free Web Apps of 2011” by

PC Magazine

Using the basic free service at Geni.com, users add and invite their close relatives to join their family tree

Geni’s Pro subscription service allows users to find matching trees

The most important of these is the fact that Geni’s focus is on COLLABORATION and sharing for the purpose of working toward the ultimate goal of creating a single, accurate family tree that connects all of our users.

Unites families young

and old 

Site is easy to use

A fun project

Easy tree Navigatio

n

One central place

to document our family

Be Social …