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Portrait Of A Web 2.0 Social Networking Site

Top Quote A new social networking site -- UnitedEdge.com has been added to the Web 2.0 landscape. It is an attractive and less monstrous alternative to MySpace (which is owned by far-rightist Rupert Murdoch). End Quote
  • (1888PressRelease) February 14, 2008 - New social networking site UNITEDEDGE.COM has joined the cyberscape as a new meeting place in cyberspace to connect with others. It is positioned as a viable, yet less monstrous, alternative to MySpace (owned by Rupert Murdoch). It is certainly part of the new Web 2.0 evolution.

    Social networking sites are immensely popular since they incorporate popular Web 2 features. Web 2 is an umbrella term for interactive social venues on the internet where users share, engage in dialog, share news, and collaborate. It often reveals cutting-edge technologies in ways that users can take them for a spin. Web 2.0 has been described as a collective intelligence in which minds from all over the globe congregate. Finding ways to harness this energy is fun and revealing.

    As part of the Web 2.0 landscape, UnitedEdge.com is a venue for creative individuals to put up profiles, upload videos, music, photos. Writers, filmmakers, actors, visuals artists, dancers, musicians, singers may want to take advantage of it to present their creative projects to others.

    As a new site, UnitedEdge.com offers users' profiles greater prominence. and more opportunities for front page features. This is a wonderful venue for artists to share videos and news. Just contact the site administrator if you have stories or creative projects that you would like featured. Users will be getting in on the ground floor of a vibrant new social networking site.

    UnitedEdge.com has a wide range of customizable features on par with that offered by MySpace, yet it is an alternative to supporting Rupert Murdoch (who owns far right-wing leaning Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, MySpace, and many more properties). For example UnitedEdge.com members can create and personalize their user profiles, share blogs, add friends, share notes, music, videos, keep in touch, make comments on photos, rate your friends/ Anybody familiar with MySpace or Facebook will have borne witness to why such features are so popular.

    UnitedEdge.com users can create and manage blogs, and also share them with others. Blogs are one way for friends or family to know what someone is up to. Blogs can even be a platform to expose news that may not have been properly addressed by the mainstream media. However blogs are directet, they are an easy way to share your thoughts, so that others may get to know you better, and become more familiar with who you are or the news, information, or art that you may wish to share

    Music is an immensely popular service provided by such a Social Network as UnitedEdge.com. Bands may put up their original music online, and share it with fans and friends alike. Bands can keep track of the events, and see how fans or potential fans are responding to them.

    Videos are having a huge impact on cyberspace and the Social Networking phenomenom. Web users have great fun in sharing funny videos, their favorite videos, and much more. UnitedEdge.com makes it easy for users to upload and share their videos with everybody on their network.

    UnitedEdge.com offers an events section, a popular feature of Web 2 sites, where lets users may post, share, or edit their upcoming events. This is where one can invite friends to attend the even, or where one can keep track of who's attending, or find out who is on the guest list for a given event. UnitedEdge.com includes a calendar of events for each member that gives a visual representation of current happenings, and can also offer a glimpse of activities and current events for others to see.

    Online Classifieds Section have certainly been popular on Craigslist. UnitedEdge.com users also have a classified sections that they may take advantage of, to post classified ads, or to the marketplace, sell or buy products, find out what jobs are out there, look for collectibles, or interact with others users in other ways, maybe to find a room mate.

    UnitedEdge.com also includes clubs, a popular feature of the Web 2.0 landscape. UnitedEdge.com users can create and join different clubs that appeal to them. Clubs an interaction utility that web users enjoy.

    Groups are another Web 2 mainstay. UnitedEdge.com users will be able to create and join groups based on their interests, with the ability to add topics to the groups, and interact with group members.

    Chat are another popular online interaction tool, where members may chat live with each other in live time.

    UnitedEdge.com offers what makes Web 2 sites so populas. it gives members full control, and a ton of interaction tools.

    In all good fun, UnitedEdge.com members will be able to use a "Rate Members" features (obviously something that one should take with a grain of salt). This feature allows users to rate one another, rate each others photos, and more.

    Search Feature are a welcome feature on websites, and UnitedEdge has an easy-to-use search service to find anyone within one's network.

    Forum are an important in cyberspace, and always have a way to get users to interact with one another. The UnitedEdge forums are fully customizable and created by the users.

    Every social networking site provides each member a mailbox. This is certainly the case with UnitedEdge.com, where members can send and receive email messages from one another, and manage the responses through user-friendly online interface.

    Instant Messenger is an aspect of good Web 2.0 sites, and UnitedEdge.com members will able to talk live with one another, as they may with Yahoo or MSN messengers.

    An intriguing feature of UnitedEdge.com is that it allows "Member Donations," a services that makes it easy for members to send donations to one another via PayPal.

    In a nutshell, Web 2.0 is about interactivity, connecting with others, customization, versatility, and user-generated content, and in all these areas UnitedEdge.com fits the bill.

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