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Social Networking….what can I say! It is both a joy and a horror, and definitely inescapable.

We at Letsbuyit.com like our social networking sites because it means we are able to connect with our happy shoppers more easily and it enables us to give YOU the low-down on the most exclusive, covetable products before anyone else! We think that part is the coolest!

However, at the same time social networking sites can indeed be a huge invasion of privacy. Quite often sites will automatically connect to each other and your facebook status will end up on twitter or your latest upload on youtube will be your status on myspace! All very confusing if you ask us!

We at Letsbuyit.com understand no-one likes to be hassled online, which is why we have a no-bugging, no-annoying, no-hassling/heckling policy on our Social Networking Sites! Meaning, we won’t bother you! How nice!
However, what we will post and give you access to are the very best deals on our site and the hottest products everyday, allowing you to get the most out of shopping online!

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So please do follow us on twitter, add us as a friend and like our page on Facebook, check out our MySpace and feel free to subscribe to our youtube…
Until the next time at Letsbuyit.co.uk…

Happy Shopping!

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According to Bloomberg MySpace wants to enter the sphere of online retail now after having already strung a nice deal with Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group Corp. for selling music online in order to compensate for the dwindling numbers of members and decreasing advertising revenue! They are even considering their own online check-out system. Either this is a desperate try to turn the destiny around or a brilliant move. Let’s see what the Murdoch’s are coming up with.

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We had previously reported about the Opensocial Initiative and that MySpace would like to open up an API for outside developers to develop applications for MySpace, similar to the applications of Facebook. Well, they are online now and some applications are already available. MySpace also provides the opportunity to create social shopping widgets! Check out the MySpace application center here.

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A while ago we wrote an article about the API project called OpenSocial, which can be eventually plugged into many portals and systems. When Google, MySpace and consorts launch an initiative such as OpenSocial, then it means serious business.

What happens when the giant Microsoft opens up their ports for outside developers? You should read this article “Microsoft to Share More Technical Secrets” published by NYTimes. This inevitably implies some sort of revolution!

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We have previously written about API and it’s one of the keywords of development in the last few months. When popular API are provided for the third-party innovators, there is a huge demand, as we can see with GoogleMaps and the over 4000 applications on Facebook itself.

With the growing availability of API it became more difficult to understand them all and that is why Google decided to simplify the development for websites and developers by creating one development platform called: OpenSocial.

This is how Google explains it on their website: “The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the APIs and host 3rd party social applications. Because it is based on the famous standard of HTML and Javascript it is easy to be learnt and quick to be applied. “

The following websites implementing the OpenSocial Standard are some websites which imply to revolutionize the development industry inevitably:

MySpace, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, und XING to name just a few of all participants.

If Facebook does not join this initiative we are bound to see an interesting competition.

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Nearly a quarter of upstream clicks to the top 19 social sites originated from one place on the Web, according to a report from Hitwise.

Social networking sites are feeding off each other’s good will, according to a new report by competitive intelligence service company Hitwise.

Facebook’s traffic has doubled in just over 18 months, but MySpace still receives most of the Web’s social networking traffic. MySpace captured 79.7% of social networking traffic in April, according to figures released by Hitwise on Monday. Facebook accounted for 11.47% of social networking visits, while MySpace alterative Bebo drew 1.28% of the traffic last month, according to the Hitwise report.

MySpace visits rose 70% from April 2006 to April 2007, while the percentage increase for the lesser-used sites was much more dramatic, according to Hitwise. Facebook visits increased 126% from April 2006 and Bebo’s traffic rose 184% from last year, Hitwise announced.

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Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Cannes Film Festival and saw sun, movies and stars!

It’s amazing how such a long-running film festival has been integrated into the online community.  People around the world can feel like they are right there in the action thanks to online broadcasts of the festival and clips of the winning films.  However, even more interesting, has been the use of social networking sites that have aided the festival.  Two such sites are MySpace.com and aSmallWorld.com:

• MySpace.com partnered with Smiley.com to create a tent at the festival where artists, actors, and producers could meet and mingle.  Myspace projected movie and concert clips for entertainment and recorded all the events to relay to web users!  It was an interesting way to get people of different backgrounds together to talk about the film industry!
• With aSmallWorld.com, producers and directors had the chance to meet online before the festival!  The networking site then allowed them to plan meetings in Cannes and finally come face-to-face to talk about producing the next big festival winner!

The 60th Cannes Film Festival really proves that social networking is becoming an efficient business media, at least in certain industries…

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