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Social Network - GROUPSITE

Groupsite is what is referred to as a platform, which is meant to help in the formation of group websites. It was formerly known as collective, but has since been rebranded; it mainly focuses on collaborations, rather than on leisure-based interactions. Groupsite is what you might call a collaboration of communities that come together to make a common goal a reality. The way they have done this, is through borrowing from what is in existence, combining that which they need and adding a few innovations of their own. They call this “social collaboration”. One way to achieve this feat has been to take some necessary bits and pieces (features) from other social networking sites and from collaboration software sites and from online listservs and groups for This has already been attempted by other known competitors. Groupsite lets the user get information or data from other websites much quicker and you can move widgets about on your screen. It allows for ease in directly embedding videos...

Social Network - HEELLO

This is one site where what strikes you first is how similar it is to Twitter. It is basically a social networking and micro blogging service. Its users get to send and receive text based posts and to share videos and pictures. Its founder is Noah Everett and it was launched on August 10th 2011. Everett is also associated with Twitpic which he founded and it is with money generated from twitpics’ advertising revenue that he set up Heello. Noah Everett claimed that the site had generated more than a million pings in 48 hours after its launch. If you have used Twitter then you will quickly understand how Heello works. For instance, Tweets are called Pings in Heello, this is when you update your status in twitter it’s a tweet in Heello it’s a ping. When you intend to forward a ping from another user to people who view your pings, it’s not a retweet like in twitter but rather it’s an echo on Heello. On twitter we have followers but on Heello they are called listeners. Then following is o...