From MySpace to Facebook to Flickr to LinkedIn, here’s looking at you
Rapleaf, a company that provides people-focused search services to corporate clients, spends a lot of time mining social networking data. It has just released a survey studying the social networking habits of the 49.3 million people it has information about, divided by age. Sample sites include MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Flickr.
Here’s some of the findings, lifted directly from the survey:
- 120 million social network profiles (total) were found, with each person averaging 2-3 social networks
Women like to socialize but men are all business on social networks
Okay, the title may be a slight exaggeration, but the data from a new study by the social contact search site Rapleaf is nonetheless interesting.
In what they claim is the largest social network study ever done, Rapleaf looked at the social connections of both men and women. All told, they collected data from over 30 million people on sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Flickr, Hi5 and others.
Interestingly, when you focus on users with fewer… Continue Reading
Valley networker Auren Hoffman’s reputation on the line
Auren Hoffman is one of the Silicon Valley’s most connected people. For a while, he made his living with his Rolodex, hooking people up through his firm Stonebrick.
Last year, he started a company called RapLeaf, designed to keep track of your reputation for reliability as you buy and sell things online. It works across Web sites, and so takes eBay’s reputation system and extends it universally (our story here).
So it is ironic that Hoffman has… Continue Reading